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by khushdholoo

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I have PIII/550MHz, 128MB RAM, WIN98SE, 20GB HDD. My motherboard is VIA ZX98-AT ver 1.07 (990805) Intel chip says PCI set, FW82371EB, L9400576, SL37M. I wanted to flash the BIOS as its pretty old version (1996). Nowhere on the NET can I find info regarding this motherboard including the VIA site. Can u help me where to look for this board?? Obviously its a Taiwan board and the BIOS string reads as follows: American Megatrends Inc; 61-0414-008031-00111111-071595-440BX-CRBX014-H. Nowhere is this BIOS string mentioned so cannot get details of same. Pls help.
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Khushroo Dholoo

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by thechas

An updated BIOS must come from either the motherboard mfg, or a 3rd party programmer.

VIA manufactured at least part of the chipset used on the board, not the board itself.

It sounds like you may have a hybrid board.
Part of the chipset is from Intel, and the other part is from VIA.

AMI wrote the "core" code of the BIOS that the board mfg customized for the motherboard.

Have you checked at www.wimsbios.com
or www.motherboards.org

Either should be able to link you to the motherboard mfg so you can check for an updated BIOS.

Note: Many motherboards are "OEM" for the computer manufactures. If you have an OEM board, the board manufacture usually does not support the board, only the computer manufacture will have support files for it.

Alternetly, you can pay for a custom bios from www.unicore.com

At around $60, I think you are better off putting the money towards a new motherboard.

An updated BIOS "usually" does not improve system performance.
It can provideimproved hardware support though.

Chas

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