PC Chips Motherboard

[E-man]

My dad has a 2yr old computer show PC with PII300 and a PC Chips motherboard. I would
like to upgrade the BIOS but don't which one
it is. The PC Chips site is very confusing.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.

[scourge]

Use this site to figure out which one it is:
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/

Select:
"Start your journey here if you
DO NOT KNOW
which board you own!"

Input what info you do know.

Good luck!

[Richard_Cranium72]

Upgrade the BIOS,, uh-huh...

This might result in things you wish would go away..

Some upgrades don't help but hurt instead.
Exactly what do you expect an upgrade with this machine to accomplish, a CPU upgrade, memory limitation, HD ??

just my .02, leave it alone unless it's broke..

DrVette

[Eli]

Agreed. I recently nuked a PCChips motherboard by flashing it. The flash went perfect, but now it won't so much as beep. Only flash the bios if you have a very good reason to.

[E-man]

Thanks for the cautions. Apparently it's safer to pardon a fugitive then it is to flash a PC Chips BIOS. So here is my problem...We are running Win98 SE and several weeks ago the printer stopped working. As it turns out, each time the machine boots, the printer port disappears and becomes automatically disabled in the BIOS. That's why I thought it might be a Y2K issue from the the negative zone. Any thoughts?

[bdunn]

If you are 100% certain you have the right BIOS for your board PC Chips boards are neither better nor worse bout reliablity of BIOS flashing.

I have several M571 boards and an M599 that all have been flashed at least once and all work great.

Any board can be rendered useless by improper flashing

[MR COMPUTER]

Its O.K. to flash the bios on a PC Chips board. This is no more of a problem with this brand, than any other. Use the bios string of numbers and letters off the first dos screen to ID your board. Your board revision should be marked on the board. Using the wrong .bin/.rom file, or not setting usb support disabled in the bios, causes the majority of flashing errors... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Eli]

Aye, PCChips boards are not more likely to have bad flashes, but with their notoriously lousy tech support it's probably not worth the risk. Right before I nuked the PCChips board I mentioned I practiced on a different PCChips board and it worked flawlessly (no, I didn't try to use the same rom file). I now have a 50% success rate.

However, this is the first I've heard of disabling USB support before a flash...

[MR COMPUTER]

Disable usb in the bios of the M599 board before flashing... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif