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Originally Posted by Por_sha911 View Post
bump - help with identifying the motherboard please
Dells are somewhat proprietary as far as that goes.

However... they are also really good about keeping old drivers, etc. available and around (at least for the optiplex and other business/corporate lines) for a VERY long time.

Look on the back of the machine, there will be a service tag on it (6 or 8 digit code IIRC) and an express service code (longer and has hyphens in it IIRC). That should let you access all of the BIOS updates, whatever latest drivers for whatever OSes were shipped/supported with that model new, etc.
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