If you have'nt tried it yet surf to http://www.ping.be/bios/. This site can
help you identify your motherboard's real manufacturer. The manufacturer's
ID is shown at the bottom of the screen everytime you boot your computer.
If you are lucky, you can surf to the manufacturer's website and download
their latest BIOS. If it is not on their site anymore at least you'll know
who to contact.
BTW, Jetway's BIOS page is http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/download/index.htm
Holden
----- Original Message -----
From: Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PLUG Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:37 AM
Subject: [plug] hardware question: VX main board [OT]
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've been saddled with the unenviable task of upgrading a circa-1996
> J656VXD main board. This has an Intel VX chipset and is apparently
> manufactured by Jetway. Since my cousin (the hapless victim) just wants to
> run Win98 office apps and stuff on her P133, I decided to up the RAM and
> put in a bigger hard drive (it came with a 110MB Quantum, since the
> machine was upgraded originally from a 386.. aieeehh)
>
> For the upgrade budget (c.a. 6K) I got a 8.4GB Fujitsu UDMA66 drive (P
> 4200, made in RP thats why its so cheap.. Ive heard nothing good about
> Fujitsu drives but its not mine and besides, a warranty is a warranty).
>
> I also got 64MB of RAM (2x32MB PC100 DIMMs). The main board has 2 DIMM
> slots and besides, the VX chipset supports SDRAM, right? the problem now
> is the main board only sees 8MB on each DIMM (1/4th of its capacity). They
> are single-sided DIMMs BTW. This really sucks. 16MB is a long way from
> 64MB and no one is gonna be running Win98 happily on 16MB, while a 64MB
> P133 is, I believe, still a viable office apps box.
>
> There are no more BIOS upgrades to be had for this ancient main board for
> love or money. Ive looked. But some old web pages claim that a BIOS
> upgrade will cure this issue.. anyone got some old BIOS images lying
> around or something? or any other ideas? and dont tell me to scrap the
> main board.. Ive already thought of that. :)
>
>
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