Turns out it's probably from an Aptiva 2178 & came out with an Intel Coppermine PIII 733 standard. It looks like it's a nice board, but runs at 133 FSB & this Celeron 400 needs a 66 MHz bus.

IBM Corp. announced last week that it will stop selling its money-losing Aptiva home computers through U.S. retail stores and will sell them exclusively over the Internet. The PCs will be pulled fr… ...

Starting Jan. 1, IBM will at least temporarily remove its Aptiva line of PCs from stores until it can come up with a revamped strategy to make selling the machines profitable.

They bear a part number of A40910B and a model number of either 10K2588 or 20L2172, IBM said. The machine type numbers of the affected PCs include 2139, 2153, 2158 ...

He threw money at them. I got to thinking about my family’s very own doughboy while reviewing the Cadillac of computers, a sleek new Pentium II IBM Aptiva S62 lent to me by Big Blue.

My cousin's IBM aptiva won't boot anymore.<BR><BR>If you press the power button, the lights go home, and the one case fan spins, but that's as far as it gets.<BR><BR>The PII 233 Mhz has only a ...