Flashing Motherboard BIOS
04 January 2005, 08:17 PM
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Flashing Motherboard BIOS
Quick question,
My mate has just bought a new motherboard and CPU, he knows for sure the BIOS need flashing on the motherboard as currently it will not support the new CPU, so quite obviously the PC wont boot.
Can he flash the BIOS with the new CPU in, even tho the PC wont boot to floppy, or will he need to put an older CPU in the motherboard, so the PC will boot to floppy and the BIOS can be flashed.
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My mate has just bought a new motherboard and CPU, he knows for sure the BIOS need flashing on the motherboard as currently it will not support the new CPU, so quite obviously the PC wont boot.
Can he flash the BIOS with the new CPU in, even tho the PC wont boot to floppy, or will he need to put an older CPU in the motherboard, so the PC will boot to floppy and the BIOS can be flashed.
Cheers
04 January 2005, 09:20 PM
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Depending upon what manufacturer the mobo is from you would need to boot into either DOS or windows to run the flash util. So you do need a CPU that will work.
Originally Posted by molko
Quick question,
My mate has just bought a new motherboard and CPU, he knows for sure the BIOS need flashing on the motherboard as currently it will not support the new CPU, so quite obviously the PC wont boot.
Can he flash the BIOS with the new CPU in, even tho the PC wont boot to floppy, or will he need to put an older CPU in the motherboard, so the PC will boot to floppy and the BIOS can be flashed.
Cheers
My mate has just bought a new motherboard and CPU, he knows for sure the BIOS need flashing on the motherboard as currently it will not support the new CPU, so quite obviously the PC wont boot.
Can he flash the BIOS with the new CPU in, even tho the PC wont boot to floppy, or will he need to put an older CPU in the motherboard, so the PC will boot to floppy and the BIOS can be flashed.
Cheers
04 January 2005, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Jubal
Depending upon what manufacturer the mobo is from you would need to boot into either DOS or windows to run the flash util. So you do need a CPU that will work.
ASUS Motherboard. Yeah thats what i thought, the PC needs to be able to boot to run the flash utils...
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04 January 2005, 10:13 PM
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Is this the ASUS A8V (939pin) mobo?
If so, there is a way to boot off floppy even if the CPU isn't recognised - I think its in the manual, but I could try and dig out the details if you can confirm the motherboard model no.
If so, there is a way to boot off floppy even if the CPU isn't recognised - I think its in the manual, but I could try and dig out the details if you can confirm the motherboard model no.
05 January 2005, 10:53 PM
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It depends on why the BIOS won't "recognise" the CPU. If it's just a question of the CPU being recognised wrongly, then there's no problem. The difficulty usually occurs when a CPU needs more voltage than the motherboard will supply at default setting (needing less is not a problem) and so the system won't POST at default. It's always worth trying though - has he?
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06 January 2005, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Mick
My new mobo Abit AN7 can upgrade Bios from within Windows 
Absolute bliss
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Absolute bliss
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