How to identify bios problem - Intel 865G Motherboard

Go to your laptop manufacturer website, identify your model, and then see if there are update bios. If there are, follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer (to the letter) to update your bios.

Identifying some BIOS chips can be quite difficult. Essentially, there are two effective and relatively simple ways to help achieving this profiling task

1. Using a software program such as Everest or SiSoft Sandra

• EVEREST Home Edition is a free system diagnostics, system information and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology.
  
  It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
  Accurate low-level information about motherboard, CPU and BIOS, including chipset details, DMI enumeration, AGP configuration information, SPD memory modules list, DRAM timing information and CPU instruction set support.
  

• Sisoftware Sandra
  was designed to be a 32 and 64-bit Windows system analyser that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a single product.I

2. identify the motherboard model and BIOS version in the manual that came with the computer.
If no manual is available, right-click "Computer" and click the "Properties" option from the menu to find the computer model and number. Use that information to identify the motherboard by going to the manufacturer's website and locating the system specifications for that computer model.

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• 2 Find the website of the motherboard manufacturer and locate the BIOS update program. Locate the most recent update program compatible with USB flash drives (not floppy drives) and download the program. Copy the update file downloaded from the manufacturer's website to the flash drive.
  


Read more: How to Flash the BIOS on a Computer ' eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6130242_flash-bios-computer.html#ixzz18fTo2mcu

You can download Everest for a free evaluation. It will identify your motherboard and other components that make up your system
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try this site

http://www.user-guides.co.uk/download/identify/identifydell/identify-dell-vostro-1500-bios-chip--motherboard.html

There are two ways how to identify the brand name and model of your motherboard.

1. Look at it method
* check for labels somewhere in your motherboard
like ASUS P5GCMX .

2. Check your bios by pressing delete during POST boot up process.

I had the same problem with my 2 years old vostro 1000. I updated the bios and problem solved.

Computer doesn’t power down when users shut down
In some cases, Windows XP’s Setup program can misidentify the power management scheme in a computer’s BIOS as Advanced Power Management (APM) instead of Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI). When this happens, users will notice that the computer no longer automatically powers down when they shut down Windows XP. Instead, they’ll see the message It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer and be forced to manually press the power button to turn off the computer.

You can verify this problem by checking the power management configuration in two places—Device Manager and the Control Panel. To quickly access Device Manager, select Start | Run, type Devmgmt.msc in the Open text box, and click OK. When you see the Device Manager window, locate and open the System Devices item. If Setup identified the system as having an APM-compliant BIOS, it will be listed as a Standard PC in the System Devices tree. (If it were identified as having an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you would see it listed here as a Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System.)

To check the power management configuration in the Control Panel, open the Control Panel from the Start menu. If the system is using Category View, select Performance And Maintenance and then click the Power Options icon. If the system is using Classic View, just click the Power Options icon. If Setup identified the system as having an APM-compliant BIOS, you’ll see an APM tab in the Power Options Properties dialog box. (If the system were identified as having an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you wouldn’t see an APM tab.)

You may be able to fix this problem with a BIOS update. To begin, check with the computer manufacturer’s Web site to see if it’s providing the latest BIOS update. If you’re troubleshooting an off-brand computer, you may be on your own as far as tracking down the BIOS update. Here’s how.

Once you obtain and install the BIOS update according to the manufacturer’s instructions, you must perform what I call a Refresh Installation, in which you reinstall Windows XP on top of an existing Windows XP installation. You must perform this reinstall operation because the power management features are tied to a special power management Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). During the Refresh Installation procedure, Setup will completely redetect all installed hardware, including the updated BIOS, and rebuild the power management HAL as well as the part of the registry in which information about the installed hardware is stored.

boot the pc from cold, note the long identifier number - it contains a 2 character identifier for the board manufacturer. For more info go to the Award bios website, it has a better explanation of this. From there you will be able to either download new BIOS from there, or the website of the vendor/manufacturer.

To find your BIOS upgrade you can do one of the following options:
1.Identify your Intel motherboard model via our Award BIOS or AMI BIOS id's tabs
2.Find a(n) Intel BIOS upgrade via the Links tab on the official site.
3.Run the BIOS Agent scan browser plugin

Hi, this type of error alert is most often related to RAM chip failure.
If you have more than one chip, swap them around or try to boot using 1st one chip then the other to identify the faulty one.
Replace this and all will be ok.
Regards mistyman