I recently acquired a motherboard with a missing BIOS chip and I need some help identifying the manufacturer. The details are as follows:

Socket 7
2 ISA slots
3 PCI slots
1 AGP slot
4 Simms
2 Dimms
AT and ATX power
AT keyboard and a PS2 connector on the board
SIS 5595 chipset
On board sound (Sound Pro PCI)
No jumpers for CPU or bus multiplier (ie it must be done by the bios)

Its also has the following markings:

V1.3 (in the corner next to the keyboard connector)
F5E85123372 Made in China (on a sticky label on one of the ISA slots)
L9807-8 ML-1 94V-0 (underneath the board)

My intention is to find a new BIOS for the board and flash a spare AWARD bios chip I have put on the board.

So far I have managed to boot the the board by adding a P100, some 4 MB simms and an old ISA video card (thank-you to the person who posted details of this little trick recently!). I also attacthed a floppy drive but the system wouldn't recognise it. Instead I dug out an old multi IO card I had spare, attatched the floppy drive to this and now the system will recognise it.

Unfortunately, my problem now is that it won't recognise the keyboard. Consequently, it detects my floppy drive, asks me to insert a system disk and to then press enter. But because I can't use the keyboard I can't get any further.

So, if anyone can identify my board for me and also suggest how I can get around this problem with the keyboard, I will be most grateful.

Happy New Year to you all,

Andy

Does the light come on on the keyboard when it starts to boot? You might buy a new keyboard. You can find them for about $15.

Thanks for your reply. The problem does not lie with the keyboard itself, however, as I used one which works perfectly well on a different PC.

Judging by the string you provided, the vendor code F5 is that of a company called Fugutech which is based in Twaiwan. I have been unable to connect to them so I can't verify it. fugu.com.tw I am assuming that the first two letters of the string is the vendor code. Also noticed on WINS BIOS page "don't waste your time" with reference to the website.


Ron




[This message has been edited by Hardtek1976 (edited 01-01-2001).]

Nice one! Fugutech are a branch of PC Chips so I now know that my board is a M570 V1.3 (hence the 1.3 on corner of the board!)

Sadly, this is only the begining. Does anybody know a way I can install my newly acquired bios?

I can get the board to boot (using an old ISA video card). I can also get it to recognise a floppy drive, but the problem is that it won't recognise my keyboard so when it asks me to insert a system disk and then press enter there is nothing I can do.

Anybody got an ideas?

(By the way, it is an AMI bios, if that is important)

Andy.