Problem identifying motherboard

[Guest]

What ways are there to identify an unknown motherboard (other than using Sisoft Sandra, which just displays an error message)? It must be manufactured in or about 1995, since the AMI Bios is (c) 1995. The board contains 1xAGP,3xPCI,2xISA slots, a Celeron 300A processor, onboard sound (there is a chip saying Sound Pro HT 1869V+ E1U18 9816 PCI) and 3 DIMM slots. The System chipset is from Acer Labs Incorporated: ALi M1621 Alladin Pro II.

I would like to know this because (1) I'd like to try overclocking the CPU and (2) I'd like to switch off onboard sound, which cannot be done from within the BIOS.

Any ideas?
Pierre

 

[girish]

checkout <A HREF="http://wimsbios.com" target="_new">http://wimsbios.com</A>

<font color=red>No system is fool-proof. Fools are Ingenious!</font color=red>

 

[Ncogneto]

Any lettering on the motherboard...by the way That is just the copyright date of the bios, agp slots came on the scene much later. Your board was probably made around 1998-99

Video editing?? Ha, I don't even own a camera!

 

[Guest]

I've identified the manufacturer as PCChips with the AMIMBID utility and thanks to the PCChips 'lottery' on Wims Bios Page, I now know it's a M729 and I have the manual in PDF format. Thanks!