help me ID my motherboard!

[stingygrrl]

IBM says it's a V72MA. What does this mean? What kind of upgrades -CPU/hard drive - can I do? Is it AtA-66/100 compatible?? What else do I need to know?

Thanks!

 

[Buddha Bart]

um... a weeeee bit more info might help.

Slot-1? Socket-370? Socket-7?

pci/isa slots, dimm/simm slots....

bart

 

[office boy]

IBM Aptiva 2153 - ACER Entra 3100/3200 = same machines

They have the same motherboard V70MA (or V72MA).
Unfortunally the V70MA has still not a bios upgrade to fully support the K6-III.

V70MA manual :
http://ftp.acer.de/cgi-bin/ftp/browser?language=deu&ftpdir=/pc/v70ma/manual

BIOS K6-III support for V72MA :
http://ftp.acer.de/cgi-bin/ftp/browser?language=deu&ftpdir=/pc/v72ma/bios

V72MA manual :
http://ftp.acer.de/cgi-bin/ftp/browser?language=deu&ftpdir=/pc/v72ma/manual

Hope you can read German

 

[Buddha Bart]

I'm having a bitch of a time finding info on it.

So far I've seen it mentioned in systesm (in french) with 800mhz coppermines and a 133 front side bus.
Plus they say SDRAM, so its not an 820 or 840 (ok it could be, but 99% not)

So that leaves us with VAP133A or i815.
Both have UDMA/66, and can have ATA/100 if they're really new, but from the sound of it, i doubt yours has ata/100.

bart

 

[Buddha Bart]

I stand corrected, its a Socket7 board.

Wonder what the hell that IBM(french) site was talking about

bart

 

[stingygrrl]

I don't have any friggin idea!!
Here's what I know:
AMD K6-2 350-2xt, 100 FSB ( no heatsink or fan !)
IBM? Part # 01N3005
Um, I think it has 2 RAM (DIMM or SIMM?) slots and 3 PCI, 1 ISA. I 'd have to open it up to be really sure ...
Said something about ALi somewhere in there too. Can I look in Device manager and pluck more info out?

Thanks all!

I know just enough to be dangerous!!

 

[dkozloski]

Boot it to the BIOS ID line. Take this info to WIM's BIOS page at www.ping.be/bios.

 

[stingygrrl]

huh?
I'm sorry - I'm really smart in some areas, but this isn't one of them.

 

[Buddha Bart]

when you boot the computer, the long string of numbers and some characters in the bottom left of the screen is the bios ID line.

Take that to the website above, and it will show you your motherboard info.

bart

 

[jon789]

Here is the web address to a pdf file which will tell you all about your motherboard.

www.siemens.com is the page of your manufacturer

This is the address of the pdf file with all the info you will need.

http://www.siemens.no/fsc/consumer/drivere/pdf/v72ma.pdf

You will need Adobe Acrobat to view it.

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[chemwiz]

Another great site for ID is Sysopt.
Click guides, motherboard guides, and go from there.

 

[stingygrrl]

Thanks everyone. I can't upgrade this system and will have to make getting good and cheap parts the next project (like I know how to put them together-haha.. but live'nlearn I guess).