Recent content by chris11189

Basic system info: biostar m7mia motherboard,512 crucial/samsung ram pc2100,radeon 7500 64 mb ddr video card, sb live audigy mp3 sound card thunder bird 1 ghz processor. Ok I got a hard drive cooler for my rig a hardcano 5 too cool!!!! It has a thermal probe with a led readout right on front of...

:cool: Het all I just ordered a hardcano 5 hard drive cooler and a 80 mm fan and im gonna start overclocking my rig here. The main reason i bought this hd cooler is that its got a thermal probe to go next to a component that you want to get a heat stat. on. And it had an led readout right on...

HERE IS THE GUTS OF MY SYSTEM: AMD ATHALON THUNDERBIRD 1 GHZ. ON A BIOSTAR M7MIA BOARD WITH UP TO 512 DDR PC 2100 RAM A SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY CARD. I have been troubled by hard locks with this setup since I built it I also have had different graphics cards and sound cards in this setup as well...

HI ALL I am running a thunderbird 1 ghz chip which is one of the hotter running processors I understand on a biostar m7mia mother board. And as I recall I used some of that standard silicone based heatsink compound when the system was assembeled. What is a good brand of thermal grease to use? I...

hey all id just like too thank eveyone for all the help i got the bios to flash and everything went fine. What I meant on the .exe was all the bios updates on thier site in in .zip form and have to be expanded to the .exe files right? then I found another problem i was using the wrong flash...

lol ya cool the tounge test is just like a 9 volt battery lol anyway ill get a new one although i did get a jolt out of the one in there.:cool:

iVE NEVER FLASHED A BIOS BEFORE AND SOME ON THE BUZZ AROUND HERE THINK IT MIGHT HELP. So i made a pure dos boot disk got the bios updates for it changed them to the .exe using a standard win zip program. got the flash utility all on the floppy the disk. it boots up to drive a just like its...

ya i got online and found out how to make a pure dos boot disk and put the appropriate bois exe updates on the floppy as well. by the way the battery passed the tounge test as well that is good enough to check the battery right i have no tools to check the actuall output of the battery but it...

as far as i know the batterys good it passed the tounge test with flying colors too. lol that is all i could think of to test the battery forgive my ignorace do you need a tester for that or is the tounge test ok?ill check out the bios to see if there is a flash bios setting for it.:)

hey ill check the batt and further more i tried reflashing the bios and when i go to the flash command it tells me that system bios does not have flash support. Does this reinforce the dead battery hunch or am i doing something else wrong?:|

ya ill pull it and replace the battery, and get back to you on that also i tried flashing the latest bios and when i go to the flash command it tells me system bios does not have flash support? does this further reinforce the dead battery hunch?

:| Hi all i set this system up on a biostar m7mia mother board the onboard sound keeps re-enableing and from time to time ill get a cmos checksum error. Any advice?

;) no as far as i can tell all that happens is the on board sound re enableing but i have had a cmos checksum error before too now that you ask any one know what that is is it related to the battery connection?

hello all I have been having intermittant problems with this system since i built it a year ago and need some advice. the components are a 1 ghz thunderbird processor{761 chipset}/biostar m7mia mother board/256 ddr crucial ram/soundblaster audigy mp3/ and a radeon 7500 64mb ddr video card. This...