IBM Aptiva 2139 cpu error message in bios

Hello all,

I recently aquired an IBM Aptiva 2139. It is a junker I am playing with. It is running a Slot1 PII 450Mhz cpu. I replaced the cpu with a PIII 450Mhz I had in my cpu stash. It works great except for this error message that comes up at boot up. It say cpu bios update error and also a configuration error. If you hit the F1 key to continue...you're good to go.

I have updated the bios using the IBM bios and also tried the Acer bios as both companies use this V66XA mobo. Does anyone out there remember if there was a work around to get this board to run a PIII processor with out getting the error messages?

I read somewhere online that if you turned off "the bios update feature" it would work ok. I didn't find any kind of feature to shut off in the bios.

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration, Gato

 

I never found a fix for it, not saying theres not one, but i gave up and just went past it at boot up. ed