Chew* are you still on a rev A board? If so does your American Megatrends bios include Ruby? I know it is a petty concern but we miss her.:D
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Chew* are you still on a rev A board? If so does your American Megatrends bios include Ruby? I know it is a petty concern but we miss her.:D
This board needs a stinking new bios. One that does not shut off at high clocks with high voltages. One that is a bit more stable with higher mem speeds. One that shows that Sapphire and ATI cares hehe. :slapass:
so how is it with bios? is it possible to get a good one soon?
edit: what would you recomend me to get? manta or grouper?
I would suggest Manta and use the leaked AMI bios. Both are great boards.
do i need to get a hold of a 8mb chip then?
No. Not needed. There is 4mg version.
cool. really tempting to get this board then. there is aleays usb wlan card, and other usb devices to compensate for only 1 pci port....
ok. payed for it today. if im lucky ill get it on saturday, or else ill get it monday.
So where do i get the magic bios?
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Originally Posted by eXa
Magic Bios :D
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.leach...manta15AMI.zip
ok. do i need a stupid floppy to update, or can i do it in windows(or boot cd)?
You will need to use F32A to flash because you will be going from a Phoenix bios to an American Mega Trends bios. As far as I know this can not be done from windows.
The command would be : F32A biosfilename.bin /b
hmm. ill think ill need more spesific help when i get the board...
dang, have find a place where they still sell floppys then, have the drive but no disc...
man, never really used a floppy, hated it already in my k6-2 days...
You could use a DOS bootable USB stick to reflash the bios. You don't *have* to use floppy.
any normal usb stick would work?
yay, finally got it today. hopefully ill get it installed saturday.
(not letting this thread die)
Keep it alive..............:)
i really would like a newer bios for my board :|
Which one are you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rolle2k
Not anyone right now, the card is on RMA, my new PSU fried it and another board. Anyway, i was have been trying both betas and the one that came with the board. Think it's a bit bad that there is no support for this board. At least Sapphire should release any newer bios imo.
Doh! :mad:
didnt realize before now that i need a 8pin power instead of only 4pin.
Do i need an entire new psu or can i use it with only 4pin?
You can use it with the 4 pin for now. PC Power & Cooling told me it will make no difference. I upgraded anyway but it will work.
btw, I have the exact same Opty that you have in your sig. What chips are on your ram that you are using?
dammit. cant get my dvd drive to work. just keep making this
tikking sound over and over again. and wont read the xp innstall cd...
Guess ill have to try my old cd drive to se if there is any difference.
i think its uccc on brain power, havent looked though...
Edit: tried switching from CS to Master first. no difference....
Edit2: ok cd-rom worked. switching to that for now. why didnt my nec dvd drive work?
not the best start ive had with a board.
first time i rebooted, i got an error that windows didnt load succesfully or something. had to use the windows cd to fix it. just ran fixboot and it worked.
wouldnt care if it wasnt for that it happends 1\3 of the times i boot! argh.
though, it could be my pata-sata adapter on my disk...
Secondly, i put the innstallation cd that came with the board and got an error that it didnt support my MB... jeez, thats a new one!
i just downloaded the drivers instead.
third. now i got this error every time windows load, what is it? i hvae no yellow marks wich indicate that something isnt innstalled...
Which bios are you on?
Do you have your X1900 yet? (chipset drivers are included with the Cat's)
no x1900 yet. maybe next week. wich bios... hmm not the good one atleast.
have to check.
Dang speedfan 4.29 made my system freeze...
edit: when i open speedfan, it always crashes when it says: Scanning Atilgp SMBus at $0B00 (<-zeroes not O`s)
btw, bios version: 08.00.12...