How Do I Know Who The Manufacturer Is For My Motherboard? All I Am Seeing In The Setup Screen Is Award Phoenix BIOS. What Do I Do?

Knowing a motherboard's manufacturer is a bit tricky and needs some extraordinary knowledge to keep track of who manufactured the motherboard. There are many ways around here; to know some of them are easy but not 100% accurate and some are
difficult comparatively but accurate 100%. There are many softwares available to tell you the manufacturer of the Motherboard and the Chipset it has.

This should also be kept in mind that the whole motherboard is not manufactured by a single manufacturer, but many parts made by different manufacturers are connected together to make a Motherboard. But the one who made the Performa/Structure of the Motherboard will be called its manufacturer.

To find the manufacture of your motherboard with Bios phoenix, you will need to know the codes which usually appear when you power on the system and that is Called Bios ID. Each Bios ID has some meaning.BIOS ID (= BIOS Number) which identifies the manufacturer and chipset of the board. Phoenix BIOSs, in most cases, do not. Some of the most commonly used Motherboard Manufacturer Bios Codes are listed below:

154I5: SiS 85C431/85C420/85C411/85C406/85C405
2A4IB SiS 496/497

2A496 Intel Saturn
2A498 Intel Saturn II
2A499 Intel Aries
2A597 Intel Mercury
2A59A Intel Natoma (Neptune)
2A59B Intel Mercury
2A59C Intel i430FX Triton
2A59F Intel i430HX Triton II
2A59G Intel Triton VX
2A59H Intel Triton VX with an illegal BIOS
2A59I Intel Triton TX

2A5L7 VIA VT82C570
2A5L9 VIA VT82C570M
2A5LA VIA Apollo VP1 (VT82C580VP)
2A5LC VIA Apollo VP2
2A5LD VIA VPX
2A5LE VIA Apollo (M)VP3

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