Motherboards

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Award BIOS motherboard identification

Many clone motherboard are not well labelled, the company name is not mentioned anywhere in the manual, or on the motherboard. If you want to upgrade your BIOS you really have to know the motherboard manufacturer, because if you flash the wrong BIOS upgrade your system could stop booting.

Luckily, Award and AMI BIOS have a unique BIOS ID (= BIOS Number) which identifies the manufacturer and chipset of the board. Phoenix BIOSes, in most cases, do NOT.

The AMI or Award BIOS id appears at the bottom of your screen after power on, during memory count up. The PAUSE key should work at that point, allowing you to write down the BIOS number, the BIOS date, and the version. You must copy it exactly.

More information: https://www.wimsbios.com/awardnumbers.jsp

Socket

4 DIP401 PGA1211 PGA1323 PLCC685 Slot 1 (Slot-242)3 Socket 3 (PGA237)1 Socket 5 (PGA320)3 Socket 7 (PGA321)3 Socket 370 (PGA370)1 Socket 478 (mPGA478)1 Socket A (PGA462)1 Socket H4 (LGA1151)2 Socket T (LGA775)1 Super Socket 7 (PGA321)

Chipset

1 ACT A27C001 (ACT 286/386SX ISA)1 G-2 GC101/GC102/GC103 (12/16MHz PC/AT Compatible Chip Set + EMS 4.0)1 Headland GC101/GC1021 IBM PC/XT chipset2 Intel 430FX (PCIset FX Triton I)1 Intel 430NX (PCIset NX Neptune)2 Intel 430TX (PCIset TX Triton II)4 Intel 440BX (Seattle)1 Intel 440LX (Balboa)1 Intel 815E (Solano-2)1 Intel 815EP (Solano-3)1 Intel 865G (Springdale-G)1 Intel B3601 Intel G31 (Bearlake-G)1 SiS 85C310/320/3302 SiS 85C471/4071 SiS 85C496/4971 VIA KM4001 VIA P4M2661 VIA VT82C693A (Apollo Pro 133)

Form factor

8 ATX10 Baby AT1 LPX6 microATX1 Mini ATX1 XT

L2 cache

1 64KB4 256KB3 512KB

Max RAM

1 256KB1 2MB1 4MB (2MB atm)1 32MB1 64MB2 128MB4 256MB2 384MB4 512MB2 768MB1 1GB1 1.5GB (PC133)2 2GB1 3GB1 4GB1 32GB

RAM type

1 30-pin SIMM1 30-pin SIPP3 72-pin EDO7 72-pin FPM5 168-pin EDO UDIMM3 DDR UDIMM1 DDR2 UDIMM1 DDR4 SDRAM DIMM3 DIP-16 (1bit)1 DIP-18 (1bit)2 DIP-20 (4bit)1 SDR RDIMM ECC8 SDR UDIMM2 SDR UDIMM (ECC)1 SDR UDIMM (PC100, PC66)1 SDR UDIMM (PC100, PC133)

PSU connector

12 AT (6-pin P8 + 6-pin P9)1 AT auxiliary 3.3v (6-pin P10)12 ATX 1.x (20-pin ATX)1 ATX 2.x (24-pin ATX)3 ATX P4 connector 12v (4-pin P4)1 OEM/Proprietary

Ports

10 AT keyboard4 Audio18 Floppy7 Game port18 IDE1 IrDA5 LAN (RJ45)18 Parallel14 PS/2 keyboard19 PS/2 mouse1 S/PDIF1 SATA II3 SB-Link1 SCSI18 Serial12 USB 1.x3 USB 2.06 VGA1 XT keyboard