I just found out my EpoX 8kTA3+ only does 100 x 12.5 I wanna buy a TBird/XP so naturally, I need more power than this. A BIOS flash would soon fix this problem as more multipliers have bee added. However.... Several sources have advised me against flashing my EpoX - is this the general opinion? Is it true EpoX boards cannot be flashed? FAO RTT: It's not a crime to want to save myself a few quid if I think I can... ...why risk it freddy
If anything Epox boards are the best for flashing. When I brought my board they recommend I flash it. So I know for fact they can be flashed. Although I hate flashing my boards. Due to several reasons a) A virus onced wiped by BIOS b) I was screweing about with the EPA pictures (thats is a no no). I belive most Epox boards have built in flasher. By this I mean by copying your BIOS update on to a floppy disk and then where you normally press DEL to enter the BIOS press ALT + F2. If it isn't alt + f2 just look at hte bottom of the screen when you boot up. you can of course do it the old fashioned way and make a bootable disk and get the BIOS flasher. However they advise you to use the built in flasher. By the way I have a Epox 8kha+ and mine does. To get an update for your board go to www.epox.com If you get stuck email them and they help you. Make sure you get hte right update for your BIOS.
cant quite believe what Gcotterill said, due to the immense problems that flashing my epox caused, and for many many people on OcUK when the 8k7a was a recent motherboard.
RichTheTitch it isn't hard to flash the 8k7a+ press ALT + F2 and put the disk in it then flashes it for you. Simple as that. Many of me mates who have the same board have had no problem. I had problems with my old boards, may be somthing to do with te fact I had no idea what is was doing years ago.
It doesn't! Unless your doing something wrong. The guy in the shop I brought it from has the same as me (well the 8kha [notice no '+']). He had no problems, as I have had no problems. Problems only occur when you have the wrong BIOS updates. But that shoudn't happen with the Epox boards as it 'should tell' if its not compataible. If you get he official updates then there should be no problem. RichTheTitch where abouts in the WEst Midlands do you live?
I know at least three other people personally that had the exact same problem as me, and the only things that would flash onto our BIOSes were much older revisions. In the end I bought a new chip from Epox themselves. Also these were official releases from Epox themselves
Fair enough then mate. You must of had a duff chip then. Or you could be just unlucky. Bet you were a pi$$ed off!
You could always buy one of those flashing kits, where u duplicate it onto another chip first or something. I can't remember where u get em from or wot they're called. But it worked for me on meh last box. Ug
Am I the only dude that thinks you should contact the retailer and/or epox if you board will not run up to 12.5 x 133? The board was sold to you as having 133 and 100Mhz bus support, and if it wont work in 133 (which from what you've told me off the forums it won't do) then it doesnt meet the specification of what you actually ordered, and as such should be replaced/fixed ..........thats the way consumer law goes I think, but I doubt retailers will be so co-operative, especially after how long you've had the board Thats fine, but you'd end up running at XP at 200fsb, not 266 as standard, so you wouldnt be seeing the full speed the cpu can do if your stuck to 100fsb, at least without unlocking it. Also, find out what multipliers the BIOS update will add. If it doesnt say 'support for AthlonXP 2000 and above' in the release notes, then it may not actually give you any higher multipliers....... But if the board wont do 133 fsb it should, then whos to say the BIOS is actually at fault :/ a BIOS update may fix it, but it may not. If its a faulty clock generator on the board, rather than the way the BIOS 'talks' to the clock gen to set its speed (where updating the BIOS would solve it), then a BIOS update wont help...only think to do is flash and pray that it works I guess. Good luck!
bios saviour, they were reviewed by macroman i believe and you can get them from www.overclockingstore.co.uk
Bah....get a Gigabyte board. Dual BIOS so if ur flashing messes up, it automatically gets replaced with the original functioning BIOS. Much safer than flashing normal boards, great idea and well executed by Gigabyte!
FAO Will> RTT and I have overcome that problem now. It's more generalized instead of squeezing multipliers. The BIOS would make available more features.
So what was the problem? A mystery 100/133 jumper or something that you found and 'more features' would be XP compatibility I presume.......
