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Tupelo BIOS V1.4 BIOS STRING = 08/04/1999-SiS-530-6A5IMV-00
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:08 pm
by gumm1bear
I have just aquired this rather ancient and obscure IBM Aptiva and I am hunting down the manufacturer of the motherboard. I have attempted to install a 40Gb Western Digital IDE HDD and no matter what jumper settings i have it on, the thing will not recognize the HDD. I was going to attempt to get a BIOS update and see if that solves my problem.
Any help in finding this update will be greatly appreciated.
Gumm1bear
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:34 pm
by edwin
I think we can manage to patch the bios but we need either a backup made with uniflash
http://www.uniflash.org or the series/model of that Aptiva (xxxx-xxx code as found on the back or side of the casing).
Re : Aptiva Model Number
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:45 pm
by gumm1bear
Here is all the information on the back of the computer
Machine type : 2187
Model Number : 13A
S / N : BND020D
MFG Date : 910
Thankyou so much for all the help
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:53 am
by cp
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:13 am
by edwin
Should be USI Pro260 xx/xx/xxxx-SiS-530-6A5IMU1AC-00 so I hope you misread the string, else something's wrong with your bios (or maybe Shift-V instead of Ctrl-V?)
After you have flashed it it should look like
11/03/2000-SiS-530-6A5IMU1AC-00
Tupelo BIOS V1.8 11/03/2000
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:19 am
by cp
