Rip
Many thanks, will check this out this evening or afternoon hopefully!!!!
Eric
Ripcrd6 wrote:
> To find info on your motherboard look for screen printed ID numbers on the
> board. It may say 430 TX ver. 2.3 or some other such string of
> characters. Write this down, then look at the chips (black and square) on
> the motherboard. One of them should have the SiS 55xx identifier. Write
> down exactly what you have, then look at the other chips (the two largest
> ones besides the CPU). Write down the largest numbers from these two.
> Then you can go to www.motherboards.org or it may be www.motherboard.org
> and you will have to look around a bit, but this is a good resource to learn
> about motherboards. He links to all motherbrd mfgr. sites. I think he
> has a table of info like the code printed on the board you can use to
> identify the mfgr. Once you know who made it you can go to their site and
> get the instruction/spec manual or update the BIOS or whatever.
>
> The other thing to know is that there is a separate module for SiS 55xx
> video you must load when installing your OS (even Windows has this problem).
> Can someone help me out with the name? You might look at some of the Linux
> sites or newsgroups and search on the video chipset number once you get
> that. I have read about ten msgs on alt.os.linux.mandrake and
> comp.os.linux.setup . They did't apply to me so I skipped over them. It
> did register with me though cause I read so much and remember a lot of it.
>
> If you need more help write back and I'll help with the research end of it
> once you get those numbers.
> Rip
> "A mind is a terrible thing."
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