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Falloutboy

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just woundering if there was a windows flash tool for this board, I'm floppyless, and for some reason the Dos flash tool keeps crashing with the dos bootdisk I usueally use.

also does anyone know if the 100Ram speed ratio is an option with the hacked BIOSs I've got ****** ram atm (tops out at 190) and need that ratio to max out my chip
 
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sheltem

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They offer the windows flash tool for ASRock versions 1.4 and up. Yes the hacked BIOS do offer the 100mhz speed ratio.
 
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Falloutboy

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now is there anyway to install the hacked Bios in windows? because the newest BIOS really doesn't do much for me
 
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Gbaby1008

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Originally posted by: sheltem
They offer the windows flash tool for ASRock versions 1.4 and up. Yes the hacked BIOS do offer the 100mhz speed ratio.
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sry for the thread jack, i have the same problem with the dos crashing (i also am floppyless) but only with ocw bios, is there any way to fix that? also i have bios v1.5 and i cant find where to update bios in the bios
 
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Wentelteefje

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Maybe try WinFlash... Or create a bootable CD/DVD (but I'm not sure if this works with BIOS updating of your mobo)...
 
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Falloutboy

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Originally posted by: Wentelteefje
Maybe try WinFlash... Or create a bootable CD/DVD (but I'm not sure if this works with BIOS updating of your mobo)...
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yah I tried the bootable disk but its crashing on me forsome reason when I try to enter into the flash program, might try winflash though
 
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Falloutboy

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anyone got any ideas? i'm currently at a roadblock with my chip since I can't get the OC bios on it :(, I really want to see what this thing can really do
 
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SynthDude2001

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Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: Wentelteefje
Maybe try WinFlash... Or create a bootable CD/DVD (but I'm not sure if this works with BIOS updating of your mobo)...
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yah I tried the bootable disk but its crashing on me forsome reason when I try to enter into the flash program, might try winflash though
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What version of DOS are you using for the boot disk?
 
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Falloutboy

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Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: Wentelteefje
Maybe try WinFlash... Or create a bootable CD/DVD (but I'm not sure if this works with BIOS updating of your mobo)...
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yah I tried the bootable disk but its crashing on me forsome reason when I try to enter into the flash program, might try winflash though
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What version of DOS are you using for the boot disk?
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caldara
 
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SynthDude2001

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Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: Wentelteefje
Maybe try WinFlash... Or create a bootable CD/DVD (but I'm not sure if this works with BIOS updating of your mobo)...
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yah I tried the bootable disk but its crashing on me forsome reason when I try to enter into the flash program, might try winflash though
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What version of DOS are you using for the boot disk?
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caldara
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I had some problems with trying to flash in Caldera - specifically, the program would hang and not do anything. I had to hook up my floppy drive (not easy since the floppy connector is in a bad spot on this board) and create a boot disk using Windows' format tool. I'm not really sure what the difference is, but only MS-DOS seemed to work for me. Not quite sure how you'd go about putting that on a bootable CD, I guess you'd have to download the image from a website or something.
 
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Falloutboy

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I got it to work finally using a different boot disk, although the hacked bios doesn't get me anywhere, i'm still stuck at 270 fsb regardless of what I do, runs fine under volted at that speed, yet won't even boot at 271
 
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Greenman

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Yeah, I'm stuck at 270 as well. I was going to try the hacked bios, but it has the same lock as the stock one.
Is there any way of getting around the cap? Or am I stuck at 2.7Ghz forever?
 
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Wentelteefje

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Originally posted by: Greenman
Yeah, I'm stuck at 270 as well. I was going to try the hacked bios, but it has the same lock as the stock one.
Is there any way of getting around the cap? Or am I stuck at 2.7Ghz forever?
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Yeah, that I don't even call speed... :roll:

 
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Ike0069

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System will not post if I set HTT higher than 274MHz, why?
BIOS v1.20 AND NEWER have a ?block? on HTT, max working HTT you can get is 274MHz. If you want to get around that problem, use BIOS OCWBeta1. We have seen OCWBeta1 BIOS go as high as 400 HTT.

BIOS with HTT capped @ 274
- v1.20
- v1.30
- v1.40
- OCWBeta3 <- It's based on BIOS v1.40, so YES, it has the cap.
- v1.50
- OCWBeta4 <- It's based on BIOS v1.50, so YES, it has the cap.

BIOS without HTT cap
- OCWBeta1 <- cpu speed on POST screen is wrong, you have to check cpu speed in windows.
- OCWBeta2 ? <- I have not tried this myself, can someone confirm it?
 
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Falloutboy

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ok well that answers my question. would there be any issues using those older BIOS with my opty since the chip wasn't officially supported till later
 
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Greenman

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Good info Ike0069, thanks.
It looks like someone is working on a 1.5 beta bios with no lock, perhaps I'll wait and try that one.
 
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Greenman

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Originally posted by: Wentelteefje
Originally posted by: Greenman
Yeah, I'm stuck at 270 as well. I was going to try the hacked bios, but it has the same lock as the stock one.
Is there any way of getting around the cap? Or am I stuck at 2.7Ghz forever?
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Yeah, that I don't even call speed... :roll:
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I do sound like a bit of a tool with that statment. To be honest, I'm happy as a pig in $hit. I havent done any tweaking at all, memory is all set on auto. The only thing I?ve changed is the cpu buss, and it just kept going higher and higher, till I hit 275, won't boot at that speed.
This is the first cpu I've ever had any real luck with, and it seems to be a sweetheart.
 
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Ike0069

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Originally posted by: Falloutboy
ok well that answers my question. would there be any issues using those older BIOS with my opty since the chip wasn't officially supported till later
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Good point.
According to ASrock, you need BIOS 1.4 or later (or OCWBeta3 or later) to support Opterons.

Hopefully a new BIOS will be introduced by OCW soon that removes the lock.
 
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sheltem

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My system is using OCWBeta2 which does not have the HTT lock. It also supports the Opteron 165 fine. However I am unable to go past 285 since I can't raise the voltage without the voltage mod.
 
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Ike0069

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Originally posted by: sheltem
My system is using OCWBeta2 which does not have the HTT lock. It also supports the Opteron 165 fine. However I am unable to go past 285 since I can't raise the voltage without the voltage mod.
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Ahh, that's good news.
 
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