[plug] video card swap

[John Knight]

Two steps ahead of you, mate! ;) The BIOS is flashed and still no luck, 
although we tried his old SiS 6326 in it and that was fine...... It's got an 
IBM boot up screen and IBM written all over it, with IBM model numbers and 
it's specifications match up with the IBM website's specs, so I'd say it's a 
genuine IBM (I'm pretty pedantic about that! lol)!

Anyway.....
Model # 2153E2A
SERIAL# AAH45HL
BIOS/VERSION/ V70ENIX (that should be before the flash i'd say)
BIOS DATE 08/18/98

It's got an AMD K62-266 in it, which we're gonna stick a K63-450 in, that 
should be a good *nix box! :D

Make lunch, not war.


>
>Hello, John.
>
>"IBM PC" as in "genuine IBM"?  If so it might be a bios issue.  If you
>haven't done so visit www.ibm.com, select Support and work your way
>through the text boxes denoting the style, model, type...  You'll
>eventually get to a selection which offers among other things the
>downloadable files.  BIOS should be among them.
>
>Before you reflash the BIOS however, make a note of what is currently
>installed -- press F1 during bootup and in amongst the list of options
>you'll find reference to the flash level.   This is handy in case you need
>to retreat to that version, if the replacement does Nasty Things
>(tm).   In something over 100 genuine IBM's, most of which have had
>flashable bioses, only one, a PC340, gave me grief.  Flashing the bios to
>the latest revision made the video display unstable :-(  The original
>version was available on IBM's bbs, along with all of its brothers and
>sisters.  I could wrangle out the details for that site if you needed it.
>
>Finally, you say it only has ONE PCI slot?  Wierd; the minimum I've seen
>is three in a desktop machine.  If genuine IBM, what model/type is it --
>just out of interest is all :-)
>
>Cheers and HTH,
>Denis


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