doubleOseven
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My understanding is that pctreiber used a stock asrock bios and then modified it themselves. I wouldn't worry too much about it being a beta -- as this version apparently works ok. A user on their pctreiber forum, named: "Sisti", wrote that the bios works well with 4gb ram etc... see: http://www.pctreiber.net/threa...postid=57416#post57416 (scroll up to read his comment and later his benchmark scores).... As an aside, I recall reading in this very long discussion thread that even Asrock tech support suggested to a user to try the pctreiber bios releases, as they had more 'options'. So that's a good sign that Asrock acknowledges and to some degree suggests these bios releases.
A word to the wise though -- even if you put 4gb of ram in your computer with the right bios, if you're using the Windows XP 32 bit version, you'll only "see" something like 3.3 gb of ram, as that OS has limitations. Perhaps the PT880 chipset also has limitations, I'm not sure. However, yes, at least with the beta bios you can address more than 2gb... which is pretty impressive for this very economical board.
A word to the wise though -- even if you put 4gb of ram in your computer with the right bios, if you're using the Windows XP 32 bit version, you'll only "see" something like 3.3 gb of ram, as that OS has limitations. Perhaps the PT880 chipset also has limitations, I'm not sure. However, yes, at least with the beta bios you can address more than 2gb... which is pretty impressive for this very economical board.