At 02:27 AM 12/31/1999 , Duane Richardson wrote:
>Thank you for providing this service for us wackos with no time or business playing with
>our computers.
>
>I have a AMT, Advanced Micro Technologies computer that I got cheap/used. It has no
>manual or documentation.I would like to put a faster chip in it and hard drive.
>
>I have found the following numbers on the mother board, GMB-P54-IPS-V0. The opening
>screen says 9/13/95 Triton 2A59CD1IC-00. Award Bios V4.50PG 50-0102-2A59CD1I-V1.02
>
>I was given a 200Mhz pentium chip for it, but it will only run at 133Mhz?
>
>I was given a 4. something hard drive that I'm afraid to put in it yet. How do you
>transfer data with out losing it?

Based on the information supplied, you have a Vextrec motherboard:
  http://www.vextrec.com

The manual for this board can be downloaded at:
http://www.vextrec.com/vtitech/manual/54ips130.pdf

The MB is only documented to support up to a Pentium166 CPU.
You might want to contact Vextec to discover if they have undocumented
settings for faster CPUs.

You will probably need to flash upgrade the BIOS to make it
compatible with the 4gig, (I know you said it was a 4 something and
I am hoping you did not mean 400+meg).  If it is a 400+mg drive
you will note need to upgrade the bios, but if it is a 4gig drive I would
recommend it as it probably will not be supported without using drive
recognition software from the drive manufacturer, such as Disk Manager.

Bios upgrade page for your motherboard:
   http://www.vextrec.com/vtitech/vtibiosb.htm#gmbp54ipsv0
 From the numbers supplied your motherboard is the version0 and
not the version1.  They have had eight Bios upgrades offered since
that board was released.

I hope that gets you started.

    Bob Wright
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