Hi,
If I built a new system with an Asus P5KC and bought a quad core Q6600 to use on it and the board came with a BIOS earlier to the 0701 revision (released last month) would the cpu still boot up into windows so the newest BIOS could be downloaded ?
I always wondered this and remember someone mentioning it here at one point but never remembered what they said :/
Cheers!
If I built a new system with an Asus P5KC and bought a quad core Q6600 to use on it and the board came with a BIOS earlier to the 0701 revision (released last month) would the cpu still boot up into windows so the newest BIOS could be downloaded ?
I always wondered this and remember someone mentioning it here at one point but never remembered what they said :/
Cheers!
but yep it looks like you can still use unsupported cpus on the mobo with an old bios but you will get a cpu check error at POST - you can then enter the BIOS and run the flash util to update the bios from a USB pen drive or have the BISO on the root of the C drive 