Anyone know any stats on Asus A7M-266-M

[CheapGator]

I bought an hp about a year ago and on the board it says A7M-266-M (tbird 1.33). I emailed asus about it and they never responded. I know that asus has an A7M-266, and a -D for dualies but no -M, if anyone knows where I can find info for it, a bios update, or if I can even upgrade to an XP processor with it i'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[Boonesmi]

how many pci slots does it have?

 

[CheapGator]

5pci/1agp looks like it coulda had a sixth but there's a brown cap on the place where it would have been (3rd from bottom). Rev 1.04 if that helps any too, with 2 spots for ddr (wonder how much it can handle). Also if you've seen what the a7m-266 looks like i have a 2"x3" piece of the motherboard chopped off the bottom right corner, not by me, was made this way. and a vt82c686b. Hope that helps any.

 

[Boonesmi]

sounds like its basically an a7m266 that was made specifically for OEM


i dont know if you can use the a7m266 bios or not (might work, but might totally screw up your board )

 

[Boonesmi]

by the way the "vt82c686b" chip is the via southbridge... it was used in the via kt133a chipset and also used in most of the amd 761 boards (which yours is)

 

[CheapGator]

Thanks again for your help. After I screw up my board what exactly would I need to do to fix it, other than buy a new one? I'm pretty happy with it being at 37C/44C load and 23C case temp for me to screw with beyond repair, but I could always use a new reason to get a new mobo that I could overclock, since I just bought a mill and will try to make my own waterblock from scratch.

 

[Boonesmi]

if you did try to flash the bios and it failed...

worst case: you would need to either have someone reprogram your bios chip, or have HP tech support send you a new bios chip that you could swap with your messed up one

not worst case: either the it wont let you flash, or the board just acts very weird in which case you could flash back to the original bios (just make sure you backup your current bios before flashing a new one)