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Flash/Upgrade bios with no floppy
Name: Andyu Date: January 3, 2003 at 19:37:22 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: Athlon Xp 2700
Comment:
Hi I am running an Athlon Xp 2700 on an epox 8rda motherboard and when i boot bios tells me i have an Athlon Xp 1500 running at 1.3ghz when I really have a 2700 that runs much faster, I was told by someone (im assuming this is correct) that to fix the problem I must upgrade or flash bios, so I went to the Epox site and got the update files and in the readme it says I need to copy the bin to a floppy and boot it like that but I have no floppy drive so is there any way to do this without a floppy drive and 2 is it possible to write the file to a cd and do it like that? Please help, Thanks alot
Name: ben rogers Date: January 3, 2003 at 21:08:01 Pacific
Reply:
I dont know much about the latest hardware but does that motherboard have the Nforce 2 chipset? If it does it allows the multiplier of the CPU to be changed on all Thoroughbred XP CPU's without physically closing the L1 bridges. So I guess when you first booted it up the BIOS wern't set.
To get it to run at it's proper speed change the multiplier to 13 and the FSB to 166 MHz.
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: January 4, 2003 at 07:06:36 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds like like FSB may be set to 100 instead of 133.
Go to this site & look for Bootable CD. Create the boot CD, add your new BIOS & flash utility & make sure to change your BIOS so that the CD-ROM drive is the 1st boot device.
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