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a friend gave me a pentuim 3 slot a motherboard and processor, and i am trying to find a guide to be able to install the board. can anyone help me

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by thechas

I assume that you mean it is a Slot 1 motherboard.

It is a shame that manufactures name and model numbers are missing on many boards.

Look the board over carefully for any labels that may help identify it.

Most newer boards are fairly well marked as far as jumpers and connectors are concerned.

The primary exception, is OEM motherboards.

If this board is an OEM board, the ONLY support path is to identify the original PC that the board was installed in, and get the data from the system manufacture.

If this is a 'retail' board, you need to install a CPU and RAM in order to use the motherboard ID tools from either www.wimsbios.com
or www.motherboards.org

The BIOS string will get you to the manufacture, then you can look up their P3 MBs, and see what matches.

Chas

by grizzley37

i found the type of motherboard, but now i need to find a manual for the intel se440bx-3 motherboard, on the intel sight all i could find was that it was discontinued march 2000

by thechas

Intel is pretty good about keeping product data and drivers available.

The 'manual' for the motherboard is the 'specification' download linked from this page:

http://tinyurl.com/7obp

I recommend that you download and save all the information from the links on the page.

For drivers, I recommend that you use the "Developer" section, and download the 'reference' drivers for the 440BX chipset.

Chas

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