What is this motherboard ?

[Charly]

Hello, can you help me to identifiate this motherboard
bios agent says :
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.33
BIOS Date: 01/17/00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 01/17/2000-693-596B-Ite-2A6LGSMFC
OEM Sign-On: V693(I) VER:A.5
Chipset: VIA 82C691 rev 68
Superio: ITE 8673 rev 1 found at port 279h
OS: WinNT SP6
CPU: Pentium® III (0.18 µm) With 256 KB On-Die L2 Cache 799 MHz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Unknown
BIOS ROM Size: Unknown
Memory Installed: 127 MB
Memory Maximum: Unknown


i search a bios upgrade to fix the hang of windows 2000 boot

Many thanks
ps : sorry for this bad english

[Ritchie]

Off WIMS BIOS, BIOS NUMBERS Page

2A6LG Via Apollo Pro Plus (692/596) Chipset
SM San-Li and Hope Vision, Superpower

So it could be one of several manufacturers and several models.

Meanwhile, you have a reported O/S of WinNT SP6. If you take a hard disk that is either backed up or that you can erase, what happens if you load BIOS defaults, redetect your drives, and run setup from a cold boot erasing your partitions and doing a full, clean install on a blank disk?

From your post I am not sure if you are attempting to install over the top of NT using 2000, which is where you could be running into difficulties.

I'd also recommend 256MB RAM for Windows 2000 rather than 128MB.

[Denniss]

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:MRtv ... SMFC&hl=en

Super-Power 6XV-A66 or 6XV-133 - it seems there is an A6-Bios somewhere in the world but that's not proved .

Is it possible you mail me a copy of your Bios ?
-> Use Uniflash for backup please

[Charly]

Ritchie : i have do many tasks : use all win2k SP on blank disk (integrated or not), and upgrade from NT4 SP6, same thing ( hang randomly during the boot in the screen) thats happened on all motherboards ( about 150 computers !)
if i change the motherboard by another via chipset based(Via 693) that works very well. So i suspect a bug in bios

Denniss : ckeck your e-mail :p

thanks all for info

[Denniss]

Try to disable ACPI in Bios if possible .
Try older Bios A4 - www.supportbios.info

[Rainbow]

I have this:
02/16/2000-693-596B-Ite-2A6LGSMFC-00
V693A Ver:A.6
(in SANLI/P3A-693A directory). Anyone want this one?

[ajzchips]

Nice one, Rainbow. Now... don't lose that file

[Denniss]

Please mail me this file Rainbow .

Maybe the guy at www.supportbios.info wants that file,too ?

[Rainbow]

Sent to Denniss and ajzchips

[Isira]

I too am looking for this version 6 BIOS (yes, I'm 4 years too late ). Hopefully Deniss still has this file as he seems to be the most recently active among Rainbow ajzchips and Deniss.

I am replacing the 500 with the 1GHz chip, and i lost 64MB of RAM. The BIOS would only boot up with 320 instead of 384MB, so I'm hoping this new BIOS would fix that.

Thanks!

[edwin]

Sounds more like a flaky RAM module than an actual bios problem. Try each of them seperate to see if you get 128MB out of them.