Identifying my Mobo

DingDong

I'm trying to find a BIOS update for my old desktop. I have found the original box and its a Jetway 939AGP (P/N J939AGP). When I checked the Jetway site there is a few 939AGP version so not too sure which one to try. To make matter worse I used everest and it gives me the details below which suggest its an Albatron board. Details are below.

The reason I'm doing this is I put up a cheap opteron 175 from adverts and I'd like to see if it works so want the latest BIOS. Will install the processor damage the board or processor if its not suitable?. Both are socket 939 and the board(Asus A8V Deluxe) it came out of seem to have similar componets.

Any suggest would be appreciated
Thanks

Motherboard:

CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 1800 MHz (9 x 200) 3000+
Motherboard Name Albatron K8M800-754 (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

Motherboard Chipset VIA K8T800Pro, AMD Hammer
System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
DIMM1: Corsair XMS CMX1024-3200 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)

DIMM2: Corsair XMS CMX1024-3200 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)
BIOS Type Award (04/01/05)
BIOS Properties:

Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version 6.00 PG
Release Date 04/01/2005

CPU Properties:

CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3000+
CPU Alias Winchester S939
CPU Stepping DH-D0
CPUID CPU Name AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

CPUID Revision 00010FF0h

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1808.4 MHz (original: 1800 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 9x

CPU FSB 200.9 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
HyperTransport Clock 1004.7 MHz
Memory Bus 200.9 MHz

DRAM:FSB Ratio CPU/9

CPU Cache:
L1 Code Cache 64 KB (Parity)
L1 Data Cache 64 KB (ECC)

L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 04/01/2005-K8T800-8237-6A7L1J19C-00

Motherboard Name Albatron K8M800-754 (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset VIA K8T800Pro, AMD Hammer

Memory Timings 3-3-3-8 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR) 1T
DIMM1: Corsair XMS CMX1024-3200 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)

DIMM2: Corsair XMS CMX1024-3200 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (3.0-3-3-8 @ 200 MHz)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 04/01/05
Video BIOS Date 11/01/06

Award BIOS Type Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message V.939AGP A01 04-01-2005
DMI BIOS Version 6.00 PG

Solitaire

This is... confusing...

Everest may be misidentifying your mobo. If you're running a Microsoft OS try Run > DXDiag. Check under System Model on the first page, it should give you the model number (not name) of the mobo which can be Googled for instant win. Or, if all fails, open up the machine and see what it says on the physical item!

Spear

DingDong wrote: »

I trying to find a BIOS update for my old desktop. I have found the original box and its a Jetway 939AGP (P/N J939AGP).


Motherboard Name Albatron K8M800-754 (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

There's a contradiction here. If the lower specs are your current board, then it's nothing like a Jetway, or even socket 939.

DingDong

I thought as much everest may just be messing with me:D , I'm glad I'm not the only one confused. I'll take it apart later when I get a chance but try the DXDiag first.
Cheers

DingDong

Opened it up and it said 939AGP as expected. Dxdiag gives the info below
System Manufacturer: VIAK8T
System Model: AWRDACPI
On the box it says designed for AMD Athlon 64 754/939 Does it do both?

Spear

DingDong wrote: »

Opened it up and it said 939AGP as expected. Dxdiag gives the info below
System Manufacturer: VIAK8T
System Model: AWRDACPI
On the box it says designed for AMD Athlon 64 754/939 Does it do both?

It's not impossible, but very unlikely. It's almost certainly socket 939 only.

Anti

If it is a albatron(754) mobo, you can get the drives here v1.07r which is the latest i could find.

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/Albatron/Albatron-K8M800-754-Bios-R107.shtml

My guess is that it is a socket 754 with a athlon 3000+

Have a look inside your pc again, around the cpu/ram area. If it looks like the below pic then its the above board and the bios will do ya:



And this is the NB:





And just a quick shot closer to the agp slot:



Top down pic of the board:



Official alabatron driver page:

http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/Product/MB/pro_detail.asp?rlink=Driver&no=196

DingDong

I be fairly sure now its a Jetway 939AGP but not sure what rev it is the. On the site the have 939AGP-EC,939AGP-G-OC,939AGP-P-EC and 939AGP-P-OC. Might just take a change a try one of them.

game4it70

Try using cpuz to see if it gives you anymore info.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

DingDong

No joy with that or sisoftware

Anti

and there is 100% nothing on the board at all, you might have to move a few cables to find the model number. and on the serial port there is usually a revision number or similar.

DingDong

The only logo was 939AGP I'll have another look tomorrow

DingDong

After finding no more details, I took a gamble and flashed one of the BIOS updates it worked. I was sweating when do it, but all seems fine. Now to see if my new opteron works unfortunately don't have it with me .

Leman_Russ

DingDong wrote: »

After finding no more details, I took a gamble and flashed one of the BIOS updates it worked. I was sweating when do it, but all seems fine. Now to see if my new opteron works unfortunately don't have it with me .

Ah yes, the good ol' fashioned way of doing it. :pac:

The_Thing

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