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by bohicam1 2 views

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I have an old puter here and I would like to see if I can get a bios upgrade for it. It says it is an AMI board but when I enter the string on their site, it says it was manufactured by someone else in the US.
51-0710-006064-00111111-072594-MERCEISA-P
flash bios v1.41
When I ran their utility, the result was
_TG_A1234567008
I've been to motherboards.org, windrivers.com, wims, and intel...all to no avail. I just want to put a P-200 chip in there and it will not see anything past the P-90 that was there...one more thing, it is a scsi board, no IDE on it whatsoever...didn't know if that makes a difference though.
Thanks in advance

Mike

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by burtonizer

I took a look around at the sites I know about, and you probably would be better off by purchasing a newer MB. Chances are your's isn't upgradeable to anything above the P90 you reference, and you can pick up a newer motherboard and use chips a up to 233mmx (older style); Unfortunately, you will find that they are as expensive as newer motherboards as they are getting harder to find. Try ebay. You would also have to get a scsi controller for your scsi devices. Sorry I don't have better newsfor you ~ Good Luck!

by bohicam1

it works fine for the kids at this point. I wasn't thinking of replacing it. thanks anyways.

by big ray

Printed somewhere on the board is the FCC ID number. Get that number and then do search on the net for FCC ID lookups. You should find a site on FFC.ORG which you can enter that number and it will give you the manufacturer, model, year, website, adress, and other goodies of the maker of your board. Most likely though it will be a legacy board and you will be told to go to AMI's website and download a generic BIOS upgrade file.

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