Ok im not spilling the beans yet but 386sx mentioned the MS5169 which I have. Mine is a revision 2.1 that supposedly doesn't support K6-2/3+ CPU's. The revisions 3.0 and 4.0 do with BIOS 3.5 which again supposedly you cannot flash to a revision 2.1 board. So I fire it up, boot from floppy, startup the flash program, hot swap BIOS chips and flash BIOS 3.5 to my revision 2.1 board. It boots and it properly detects the CPU. Hmmm I wonder if bad things might happen? The revision 2.1 board is interesting in that it has the holes for a SB-Link but no pins. That might be interesting for a YMF724 card. What do you think? If anyone can think of something that this might cause an issue with let me know and maybe we can test it.
Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE