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First post, by candle_86

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I need a bios for a Gateway G6-400, it has a 4M4PBOX1 motherboard, can only find the bios for the 4W4PBOX0 board. Its an MP440 Intel board

Reply 1 of 7, by Imperious

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I'm fairly certain what I've attached is it, but You should thoroughly check anyway.

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Atari 2600, TI994a, Vic20, c64, ZX Spectrum 128, Amstrad CPC464, Atari 65XE, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500
PC's from XT 8088, 486, Pentium MMX, K6, Athlon, P3, P4, 775, to current Ryzen 2600.

Reply 3 of 7, by Imperious

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candle_86 wrote:

Thats the bios, how'd you find it so fast, i spent 4 hours looking for it 🤣

I googled 4M4PBOX1 bios, then found this https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 1&uid=503132801
Next I googled 7508283.exe and found it here.. http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php? … 39&action=filfo

I spent less than 10 minutes looking.

Atari 2600, TI994a, Vic20, c64, ZX Spectrum 128, Amstrad CPC464, Atari 65XE, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500
PC's from XT 8088, 486, Pentium MMX, K6, Athlon, P3, P4, 775, to current Ryzen 2600.

Reply 4 of 7, by candle_86

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Imperious wrote:
I googled 4M4PBOX1 bios, then found this https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 1&uid=503132801 Next I googled 750828 […]
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candle_86 wrote:

Thats the bios, how'd you find it so fast, i spent 4 hours looking for it 🤣

I googled 4M4PBOX1 bios, then found this https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 1&uid=503132801
Next I googled 7508283.exe and found it here.. http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php? … 39&action=filfo

I spent less than 10 minutes looking.

wow, I feel really stupid, thank you it worked, and now my Pentium III 800 is detected as such instead of Pentium Pro 500

Reply 5 of 7, by gdjacobs

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candle_86 wrote:
Imperious wrote:
I googled 4M4PBOX1 bios, then found this https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 1&uid=503132801 Next I googled 750828 […]
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candle_86 wrote:

Thats the bios, how'd you find it so fast, i spent 4 hours looking for it 🤣

I googled 4M4PBOX1 bios, then found this https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 1&uid=503132801
Next I googled 7508283.exe and found it here.. http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php? … 39&action=filfo

I spent less than 10 minutes looking.

wow, I feel really stupid, thank you it worked, and now my Pentium III 800 is detected as such instead of Pentium Pro 500

You will learn, grasshopper.

All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder

Reply 6 of 7, by Ozzuneoj

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This thread is a perfect example of why I enjoy these forums so much. So many people seem to like solving obscure problems and testing their Google-Foo that it makes even the most annoying or hopeless retro-PC problem seem fixable.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

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