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by mtrhome

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Need help in determining identity and source
of an upgraded motherboard to replace my
existing board. Data for the existing board is:
BIOS Mfgr,: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN
BIOS ID: 09/21/2000-8363-686-6A6LMJ19C-00
BIOS OEM Signon: BC1233KT 1.0 09/21/2000
Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev. 2
Super I/O Chip: VIA 686 found at 0h:7h:0h
Thanks

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by thechas

If what you want to do is replace the board with a newer board.
The first thing you need to do is define your needs.

Form factor: AT, ATX, NLX, LPX
What CPU do you desire to use: AMD, Intel, VIA/Cyrix?
Do you want to reuse RAM or CPU from the existing board?

Once you decide what you want, go to the hardware review sites to compare different MBs. One site is www.tomshardware.com

Specific recomendations depend on what you use your system for, and what buying options are available to you.
ASUS, ABIT, EPOX, and Intel are my preferred MB manufactures. But, if you ask 10 IT people for their choice, you will get even more to choose from.

You should be able to identify what you have now from the BIOS ID. www.motherboards.orghas a list that you can use to cross BIOS IDs to MB manufactures.

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