Try searching "boot block rescue" and model number, might be a way to put BIOS on a basic bootable USB stick and recover it. Or burn a CD for it.

Interesting is it free? do i have to pay for it?

Ah yeah, there might be scam sites with stuff like that, but should be able to dig out one from an official lenovo site for free.

yeah but the problem is someone went through alot of trouble to hide this Machine's true information including it's original stickers OEM Serial and Model numbers Service Tags etc etc

without that I lack any way to identify what it is all I know it's running a Pentium D @3.40Ghz 512MB DDR2 DRAM 3.5 Floppy Drive 2x dvd drive and a generic radeon and generic LITEON PSU and apparently runs Windows XP Professional and has the Socket 775/T meaning it can run a Intel Core 2 [name goes here] and up to 8GB Ram but that could be different due to it's true information is missing and I can't find a single damn correct piece of information anywhere.

would there be any idea where to look?

so I might've found it
it might be a IBM ThinkCentre M52 Tower (8113) and it's a withdrawn model. should I try it?

any ways to get the BIOS files to restore it and or fix it and what to do about upgrading it to the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700?

and if possible, drivers what to do about that?

so found the page but the links are dead and there are no internet archives of the page when it did exist
so atm what do i do?

SFMG wrote on 2024-03-07, 06:04:

so atm what do i do?

You never go atm

atm means at the moment

so

what do I do at the moment?

SFMG wrote on 2024-03-07, 06:04:

so found the page but the links are dead and there are no internet archives of the page when it did exist
so atm what do i do?

If you're right about the model - IBM ThinkCentre M52 Tower (8113) - then the latest stock BIOS is available thru this page...

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/downloads/ds … -8116-8211-8212

...if the 'Download' buttons doesn't work, then copy/paste the underlying url link into your browsers address bar.

Your current modded BIOS may be due to someone having injected additional processor microcodes not supported by any of the stock versions. The fan control was updated in an earlier stock version which may be the source of the louder boot / POST fan noise ("Updates the fan control for 65nm Intel processors")

Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it's forgivable to go atm

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds … -8116-8211-8212

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2024-03-07, 06:58:

If you're right about the model - IBM ThinkCentre M52 Tower (8113) - then the latest stock BIOS is available thru this page... […]
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SFMG wrote on 2024-03-07, 06:04:

so found the page but the links are dead and there are no internet archives of the page when it did exist
so atm what do i do?

If you're right about the model - IBM ThinkCentre M52 Tower (8113) - then the latest stock BIOS is available thru this page...

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/downloads/ds … -8116-8211-8212

...if the 'Download' buttons doesn't work, then copy/paste the underlying url link into your browsers address bar.

Your current modded BIOS may be due to someone having injected additional processor microcodes not supported by any of the stock versions. The fan control was updated in an earlier stock version which may be the source of the louder boot / POST fan noise ("Updates the fan control for 65nm Intel processors")

thanks and yeah welcome back man you were a big help restoring that Compaq Presario SR1200NX way back when and I'll try that but I've been having no luck so far cause the previous person obviously went through the trouble of attempting to obscure any information that might identify this PC.

sends me to a page 404 not found

nvm scratch that found it

I've saved the page at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240307071532/ht … -8116-8211-8212

Since your PC still boots, I would try to flash the BIOS.

To confirm that your PC is indeed an M52 without having any of the stickers or nomenclature, go to eBay and Google Images. Search for pictures of the motherboard and visually confirm that it's the same as yours. If you can make the confirmation, go ahead and flash the BIOS. There should be relatively little risk if you can confirm that the motherboard is indeed an M52.

trying it now hoping it works

cross your fingers people

Or, if you can't make a visual confirmation that the motherboard is from an M52, try to figure out what type of ThinkCentre it is by examining your motherboard. If you can figure out what ThinkCentre models used your motherboard, you should be able to find a BIOS flash update for it.

Can you provide any detail photos of the motherboard?

Or maybe the BIOS itself has an info page, if you can access it?

God has blessed me with all of you and your helpfulness I am truely and I mean truely grateful the system has been restored to it's default BIOS State as far as functionality goes just have to run some further tests and we'll be good to go. but seems the fans work fine now so thank you will post an update once I got XP installed and everything working