Rebuilding a friend's antiquated machine, Hit a snag with the BIOS, need help.

[JoLLyRoGer]

I don't have a lot of info to go on here, here is what i do know.
I'm trying to flash the BIOS so I can get rid of the password keeping me out of the settings (no, removing the battery didn't work, i took it out for about 30 min.)

It has a 266 pentium and the mobo is an intel, at least that's whats printed on what appears to be the N&S bridges. with a few other chips from VIA.

Current BIOS is Award Modular v.4.51PC

Any ideas on what type of MOBO this is so I could find an update??

Thanks.
JR..

 

[McMullet]

Well now.... I good way to find any files for any type of hardware is to use
www.driversguide.com
Login: drivers
pass: all
you can try a few different numbers on the mainboard to help identify.
Also I used to have 2 p2 266's here back in the day, I do believe Gigabyte made a mean P2 board... but my best bet is something to do with ASUS

 

[McMullet]

Or try ABIT....

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Right between the PCI slots are a group of numbers: 35-8333-04.
Does this mean anything to you?

 

[boomerang]

http://www.motherboards.org/

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Cool...I'm getting somewhere. Went to Award's website and was able to ID the MOBO Manufacturer by the BIOS ID String.

And thanks for that link Boomerang. I know it's gonna come in real handy.

 

[boomerang]

Glad I could help.