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MS-6153

• Support Socket 370 for Intel® Pentium® III / Celeron™ Processor.
• Supports 300MHz~700MHz.
• Intel® 82443BX/82371EB Chipset.
• Supports three 168-pin unbuffered DIMM using six memory banks.
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Overview

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Detail Specifications

CPU

• Support Socket 370 for Intel® Pentium® III / Celeron™ Processor
• Supports 300MHz~700MHz


Chipset

• Intel® 82443BX Chipset
• Intel® 82371EB Chipset


FSB

• 66~155MHz clocks are supported
(According to product specification, FSB above 100MHz is not guaranteed to work properly with
your CPU)


Main Memory

• Supports three 168-pin unbuffered DIMM using six memory banks.
• Supports a maximum memory size of 348MB (8M*8) or 768MB (16M*4)
• Support ECC (1-bit Error Code Correct) function
• Supports 3.3v DRAM DIMM.


Slots

• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot.
  - AGP specification compliant
  - AGP 66/133MHz 3.3v device support
• Five 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots and one 16-bit ISA Bus slot wherein one shared slot can be
   used as ISA or PCI
• Supports 3.3v/5v PCI Bus Interface.


On-Board IDE

• An IDE controller on the Intel® 82371EB PCI Chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
   Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33 operation modes.
• Can connect up to four IDE devices


On-Board Peripherals

• On-Board Peripherals include:
  - 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.
  - 2 Serial ports (COM A + COM B)
  - 1 Parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
  - 2 USB ports
  - 1 IrDA connector for SIR
  - 1 Audio port (Line_out, Line_in, and Mic_In Jack)
  - 1 MIDI / Game Port


BIOS

• The motherboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
   expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The motherboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
   motherboard specifications.


Dimension

• 30.5 cm(L) x 19.2 cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

• 6 mounting holes.


Product Accessories

  
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• The accessories will probably be different according to the different selling areas of product models. For details of accessories, please refer to the descriptions on the product package.

 

The Specification may change without notice. The actual products sold are different from areas. Please check the detailed Specification with your local dealers.

 

News

Release Date Title

Awards

Recommendation Gold Prize - DOS/V POWER REPORT
Date: 2000-09
Title: Recommendation Gold Prize
Review: -
Media: DOS/V POWER REPORT
Country: Jordan
Date: 2000-05
Title: "Menzione" Award
Review: -
Media: PC Professionale
Country: Jamaica

BIOS

!Attention:

Users who download BIOS from here (not using Live Update) should use the flash utility included in the downloaded compressed file when doing the BIOS update. To avoid BIOS update failure, please do not use older versions of the update utility or utilities not provided by MSI.


We suggest using Chrome, Firefox 3.0 or IE 8.0 above browsers to download BIOS, Drivers, etc.
Description Fixed CPU Temperature error.
 Version 4.3
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-12-13
Download w6153p43.exe File Size 0 MB
Note For BX Chipset PCB 2.2A Only
Description -Support EON En29F002NT Flash ROM.
-Support Hyundai 29f002 flash ROM.
Version 4.2
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-12-05
Download w6153p42.exe File Size 0 MB
Note For BX Chipset PCB 2.2A Only
Description Fix Vcore show error.
 Version 4.1
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-09-28
Download w6153p41.exe File Size 0 MB
Note For BX Chipset PCB 2.2A Only
Description -Fixed CPU Vcore Error.
-Fixed system hang when IDE HDD size over 65GB.
-Fix CPU Temperature too high.
-Fixed wrong CPU frequency display if the clock is over 999MHz.
-Support IBM 37G HDD.
 Version 2.4
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-08-02
Download w6153p24.exe File Size 0 MB
Note For BX Chipset PCB 2.1 Only
Description - Fixed to show 128MB memory under Linux system. 4. April 7, 2000
 Version 2.2
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-04-07
Download w6153p22.exe File Size 0 MB
Note This bios could not be use for PCB 1.X
Description - Support Celeron(TM) Coppermine(R) 600 CPU.

Version 2.1
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-03-17
Download w6153p21.exe File Size 0 MB
Note This bios could not be use for PCB 1.X
Description This is the initial Award(R) BIOS release.
Version 2.0
Type Award BIOS Release Date 2000-01-20
Download w6153p20.exe File Size 0 MB
Note This is only for PCB 2.X
Description This is the initial Award(R) BIOS release.
Version 1.0
Type Award BIOS Release Date 1999-01-22
Download w6153p10.exe File Size 0 MB
Note This is only for PCB 1.X
click here

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Live Update 5 utility is only intended for MSI Desktop PC related products (motherboards and graphics cards) usage. This utility doesn’t support any MSI Notebook (NB and Tablet PC) or AIO product, while installed might experience unexpected errors. If it happens that you have installed Live Update 5 on your Notebook or AIO system, please uninstall it then perform system restart.

Live Update 5 is a powerful update tool with user-friendly interface, provides an automatic scan and download for your MSI products. Using this service to keep your system in the most updated environment.

Live Update 5 supports the following MSI product lines and items:
Motherboards: Drivers/BIOS/Utilities;
Graphics Cards: Drivers/BIOS

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Manual

!Special Note:

MSI™ provides user manuals (in PDF format) here for download. You can use Adobe Acrobat Reader (Adobe's WEB Site) to open them.

An easy guide for you to assemble your PC step by step, please refer to "Quick Installation Guide".


We suggest using Chrome, Firefox 3.0 or IE 8.0 above browsers to download BIOS, Drivers, etc.
Version Language File Size Download Release Date
1.0 English 0.98 MB E6153-10.exe 2002-05-29
1.0 English 0.42 MB E6153va.exe 2002-05-29

Test Report

CPU Support

 

Marketing Name
MS-6153
Model Name
6153
PCB Version
2.1C
BIOS Version
W6153IMS.240
CPU
FSB
Ratio
Result
Celeron 300A (PPGA)
66
4.5
OK
Celeron 333 (PPGA)
66
5
OK
Celeron 366 (PPGA)
66
5.5
OK
Celeron 400 (PPGA)
66
6
OK
Celeron 433 (PPGA)
66
6.5
OK
Celeron 466 (PPGA)
66
7
OK
Celeron 500 (PPGA)
66
7.5
OK
Celeron 533 (PPGA)
66
8
OK
 
Celeron 600
66
9
OK
Celeron 633
66
9.5
OK
Celeron 667
66
10
OK
Celeron 700
66
10.5
OK
Celeron 733
66
11
OK
Celeron 766
66
11.5
OK