Finding Motherboard info ???

[Michelle]

Hi ,
Can anyone help?
I have a Gateway 2000 486sx-33 Serial# 1376986 With Pheniox Bios A486
version1.01 or Lp486I2 op11 497 The Fcc# of the computer is HWYLP486I2 and
I am trying to find out who made the motherboard and orignal jumer settings?
Under Systems tab general it says original Amd, but nothing else and it has
an Intell Processor chip 486Isx with theses #'s as well C3160251 and
Ku804486sx-33 as well as an Opti chip of some kind # 82C392 or 4L40F1206

Can Anyone help. I have been to gateway Numerous times and its to old to be
on file so they dont know anything, and I have done a search by bios and
still have come up with nothing. I have tried Phenioxs web site, Win
Drivers.Wimm Bios, but still cant Identify the board Maybe I am missing
something though!! Thanks Michelle Marie
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[ripon]

According to the FCC #, Gateway is the manufacturer, but Micronics made
a bunch of Gateway's early boards.

Did you check out:

http://www.gateway.com/support/techdocs/references/motherboard/index.shtml

The jumper settings might be similar to your mboard.

Ripon

[Andrew Tang]

"ripon" <ripon...@theglobe.com> wrote in message
news:3A6B9EB7...@theglobe.com...

> According to the FCC #, Gateway is the manufacturer, but Micronics made
> a bunch of Gateway's early boards.
>
> Did you check out:
>
> http://www.gateway.com/support/techdocs/references/motherboard/index.shtml
>
> The jumper settings might be similar to your mboard.
>
> Ripon
>

True. It is most likely the motherboard was made by Micronics, but the
story doesn't
end there. Micronics was bought by Diamond Multimedia and had even put out
some
Pentium class motherboards under the Diamond name. I remember seeing some
at
BestBuy some 3-4 years ago. Anyway, the story doesn't end there. Diamond
was
bought by S3 which later sold off its graphcis chip business to Via and
changed its name
to SonicBlue and does not sell graphcis boards any more. Fortunately,
Diamond has
kept the old manuals (although incomplete) at its ftp site. So Michelle,
look here:

ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com/pub/Motherboards/486/

andy...@excite.com

[ripon]

Very interesting!

Thanks Andy

Ripon

[A. G.]

There are BIOS ID programs that will tell you some things about the MB in
your system. TuffTest will tell you quite a bit of info. Another place to
look is www.motherboards.org they have lots of information about
motherboards and links to some BIOS id programs.

--
A. G.

"Michelle" <imp...@erols.com> wrote in message
news:94fqln$oef$1...@bob.news.rcn.net...

[SnowGhost]

> > According to the FCC #, Gateway is the manufacturer, but Micronics made
> > a bunch of Gateway's early boards.
> >
> > Did you check out:
> >
> >
http://www.gateway.com/support/techdocs/references/motherboard/index.shtml
> >
> > The jumper settings might be similar to your mboard.
> >
> > Ripon
> >
>
> True. It is most likely the motherboard was made by Micronics, but the
> story doesn't
> end there. Micronics was bought by Diamond Multimedia and had even put
out
> some
> Pentium class motherboards under the Diamond name. I remember seeing some
> at
> BestBuy some 3-4 years ago. Anyway, the story doesn't end there. Diamond
> was
> bought by S3 which later sold off its graphcis chip business to Via and
> changed its name
> to SonicBlue and does not sell graphcis boards any more. Fortunately,
> Diamond has
> kept the old manuals (although incomplete) at its ftp site. So Michelle,
> look here:
>
> ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com/pub/Motherboards/486/
>
> andy...@excite.com
>

You can also try www.s3.com then follow your nose. I have an old Mpower3
Micronics board that is listed on the S3 sight, but no further information.
If you find you have an Mpower3 (you would have to be lucky) give me a buzz
and I'll email you the jumper settings. (I have a dead tree version of the
manual)

SnowGhost MCP