8IRXP Owners Rejoice! A reboot fix is HERE!!!

[codehack2]

Here is the new BIOS (F7A). According to the Bios Page it "For Northwood (Pentium 4 CPU) changed to proper Vcore settings."

I'm @ work now & can't test, but I'll update tonight.
EDIT
Here is the post from Mike Mullens from Giga-Byte UK in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte



<< And the result is....they found the fault! Taiwan have now seen the problem
and their tech support are going to round up the bios engineers to get a fix
done. In fact with our newly arrived Nrthwood we had also replicated the
fault, so don't bin those boards just yet...
Mike Mullen
CST
Gigabyte UK
"gbt-tech" <gbttech@btclick.com> wrote in message
newsPRu8.48347$dn6.470990@NewsReader...
> Ok I have one piece of good news after getting through to my contact at
> Intel europe we have just recieived a Northwood CPU. Also Taiwan have
> decided to do another round of testing and we should have results of that
> later today.
> Mike Mullen
> CST
> Gigabyte UK
>
>
>>

 

[metapy]

Very good news, now how long will we have to wait? I am tempted to wire wrap my p4 if the new bios is not here by the time my Sunflower is as will already be remoinvg and re Artic Aluminaing my proc anyways.

 

[EtOH]

According to The Register this Register article the problem is fixed with the f7 bios. Unfortunately I have yet to find it on any of Giga-bytes sites, still listing f6 as the latest. If anyone finds the f7 bios post results please.

EtOH

 

[ngupt02]

I can't find f7 either.

 

[Barrei]

I emailed Gigabyte about f7 bios will hopefully get an answer tomorrow.

 

[cobrasvt]

The link is on the Taiwan web page now, its broke though and not working... The same thing happened when they released the F6 bios. Took a few hours before they finally got the link working...

Looks like we should have F7 sometime today though...

 

[codehack2]

OK, the the F7A bios has been posted! See my 1st post for a link!

CH2

 

[JTKGY]

It's funny that when I called Gigabyte's tech support here before I return
the motherboard.. they claimed that they do not guarantee what happens
when I overclock... and they claimed that the bios lock up is due to incorrect setting
on my behalf..

Well, eat this..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25024.html
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/24636.html

I also wrote them about the possibility of adding 4:5 host mem ratio... about week ago..
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