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Here Goes!.
Even though I'm posting this on my perfectly good ol NF7-s, less can be said for my AV8 board.
I'm really piffed at the mo for 2 reasons, I bought my Abit AV8 so that I could drop a Athlon 64 3800+ Duel core into it only to discover that the BIOS was so old that it didnt even recognise my chip, how long have Duel Cores been out!!!!!
.obviously not as long as this board has been sitting on the shelf maybe!.
Once in windows it was apparent that all was NOT good, The disk access was trippled even after I installed the KIA SATA Drivers. I cant believe it, All this money spent on new mobo and processor and it was defragging 5 times slower then my old NF7-s.
Anyone know why please, could they tell me, Is this a bios issue.??
Anyway I really needed to get this thing working properly so I read carefully about Updating the BIOS. Apparantly version 26 is the newest and version 21 was able to detect X2 chips, but I went for 26 the latest version. which seemed sensible.
I used the Flasmenu but not through Internet, I loaded the file. It worked ok. But after an hour. some things seemed unstable So I thought it best to go back to ver 24, Half way through Flashing Beeezzzeewwww
It shutdown , Noooooooooooooo please please no not that.
YEP, one dead mobo, thanks to Abit, It wont even boot into Bios. only a few lights on the baord show up and code(99). on the LCD
Has this Wrecked my processor ??..
Please tell me it cant do that!.
Even though I'm posting this on my perfectly good ol NF7-s, less can be said for my AV8 board.
I'm really piffed at the mo for 2 reasons, I bought my Abit AV8 so that I could drop a Athlon 64 3800+ Duel core into it only to discover that the BIOS was so old that it didnt even recognise my chip, how long have Duel Cores been out!!!!!
.obviously not as long as this board has been sitting on the shelf maybe!.Once in windows it was apparent that all was NOT good, The disk access was trippled even after I installed the KIA SATA Drivers. I cant believe it, All this money spent on new mobo and processor and it was defragging 5 times slower then my old NF7-s.
Anyone know why please, could they tell me, Is this a bios issue.??
Anyway I really needed to get this thing working properly so I read carefully about Updating the BIOS. Apparantly version 26 is the newest and version 21 was able to detect X2 chips, but I went for 26 the latest version. which seemed sensible.
I used the Flasmenu but not through Internet, I loaded the file. It worked ok. But after an hour. some things seemed unstable So I thought it best to go back to ver 24, Half way through Flashing Beeezzzeewwww
It shutdown , Noooooooooooooo please please no not that.YEP, one dead mobo, thanks to Abit, It wont even boot into Bios. only a few lights on the baord show up and code(99). on the LCD
Has this Wrecked my processor ??..
Please tell me it cant do that!.
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