asus a7m266-new revision

[Zipperhead]

will be getting mine tommorow-it is rev 1.04 and is supposed to have the dips for changing the multiplier.anyone else have 1.04?

 

[RacerX]

where did you get it? please let me know if it's the newer revision I need the dipswitches too. Did you get 1600 or 2100 ram?

 

[Zipperhead]

i got it from a distributer in canada.it is 1.04.they said the dip is back on it,but have to wait till the board arrives to be certain.i got the memory from mushkin-pc2100.i will post when it arrives.

 

[BobbyBobby]

Why the hell did Asus think about taking off the dip switches in the first place!!!
If u have any news on this board plz post!

 

[Zipperhead]

i will

 

[DealBabe]

well? dips or not?

 

[ItsSoLARGE]

Well.... did u get the board? did it have the dips?

 

[RacerX]

....Earth to Zipperhead....

 

[Zipperhead]

sorry guy's!i tracked it-it was supposed to be here friday but it wasn't,supposedly today they said

 

[Zipperhead]

got the board today-there is no dip

 

[ItsSoLARGE]

bitch..... looks like no DDR... at least ASUS

 

[Zipperhead]

now i am told that they have enabled the multiplier to be changed in the bios.i have the memory and m.b. but no cpu yet.if i knew for sure i would just get a regular 1.2 t-bird instead of waiting for the "c"

 

[ItsSoLARGE]

who told you about the bios multiplier thing? ASUS has been keeping us in the dark about a lot of things for this board.

 

[Octoberblue]

the a7v133 has bios multiplier control, but also has dipswitches for oems.

 

[Adisor]

Hey guys !

I poseted a topic some days ago specifying that i got rev 1.04 A7M266 and that there are no DIPS on it... Apparently AMD insisted that ASUS take them of.. BTW, the silk screen is still there, all is needed is a set of DIPs and a soldering iron, and i shall mod it happilly...

BTW, my mobo came with BIOS 1002 and there is no trace of CPU pultiplier unlocker in there... it only shows greyd out at what multiplier that CPU is currently running... And i have this feeling that even though ASUS will release tons of BIOS updates for this board, they will not add multiplier control...

Damn, i'm also still waiting for the 266Mhz Athlons... if any one finds them, plz post.

Adi

 

[Zipperhead]

i need one to

 

[DealBabe]

I just got my board.... a rev 1.03, and it has DIPS!!!
I got it from computerstop.com
Could some1 tell me what I need to do to overclock my 1 gig thunderbird.....

 

[RacerX]

DealBabe, that's where I was going to get mine. I think all the boards have one set of dips near the 1st PCI slot (for fsb adjustment) ...you mean yours also has a 2nd set of dips in the top right corner for multiplier settings?

 

[Zipperhead]

racerx did you order the board yet?why do you call yourself racerx=motocross,bmx,just curious.

 

[DealBabe]

your right, only one set of dips..
my bad..

anyways, im having some compatibility probs in win98se

it crashes in games a bit, might be a cdrom problem...because it runs quake 3 arena damnarse fast... but in games that use the cdrom a bit, i get crashes.

Might also be the vio1 jumper.. Its default is 2.7 volts, and ddr mem run at 2.5 volts.. but there is not setting in the manual for 2.5 volts...

i did install the amd agp miniport driver on the cd..

can some1 provide a link to the latest miniport driver from amd?

 

[DealBabe]

read this

read

 

[Zipperhead]

already seen that but..its a good article

 

[Vamp Armand]

Deal Babe - I think that there is a jumper somewhere on the board that you can take off to set the voltage to 2.5..... read about it on a review somewhere.....

 

[DealBabe]

yep, thats the link i provided 3 posts up..
but i was in a forum elsewhere, and some1 mentioned the manual was wrong, and that the real settings are on the motherboard itself..
so i will get home and check it out

 

[Octoberblue]

That stinks about the multiplier control. So how can AMD "insist" that Asus take them off? Because it's an AMD chipset? Oh brother, here we go. Looks like now that AMD is getting big time they're going to start practicing the ways of Chipzilla, using their power to leverage control and start sqeezing every last dime out of you they can.

That's just so stupid. It's only po' folks like us that change the multipliers anyway! Of course sometimes when you could afford the fastest chip it's still more fun to get a cheaper one and overclock it, then spend the difference on higher end components elsewhere. But still, what percentage of the population is actually doing this? Just us freaks and geeks who actually enjoy stuff like that! It's nothing! It's pennies to them! And in reality it doesn't make them more money, it just insures that we'll all have slower computers!:|