Dell 4550 motherboard

[Garstud]

Hi Guys,

I just recieved my new Dell 4550, P4 2.4 GHz with a 533 MHz bus. I'm used to building my own computer and having all the options in the bios. This just has a dell propriatary bios on the mobo with very few options. Anyone have any idea if there is a different bios that will work with this motherboard?

Thank you.

-G

 

[Adul]

nope

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: Adul
nope

don't even try a non-dell bios as you'll probably hose your board!

 

[RalfHutter]

[rant]I must have asked this question 20 times since these 4550's started flooding the market a few weeks ago: IS THIS AN INTEL MOTHERBOARD OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE LIKE AN ASUS?[/rant]

None of the guys that have these 4550s and want to over clock have ever found out or answered. If it's an Intel board, forget it. No OCing.
If it's an Asus board (made for Dell) *maybe* you'd have a chance if you could flash it with the correct BIOS. I wouldn't try it though.

You guys got a pretty good DELL computer for $800. Live with it. Dell's are rather proprietary and that's the way it is. If you want to buy a prebuilt rig and then OC it you need to buy something from a white-box vendor, not Dell or HP or Sony etc.

 

[ElFenix]

i've actually seen that same BIOS on quite a few OEM computers... its not just dell... actually its pretty close to the BIOS on any intel board... most of them are intel boards, only seen a few asuses on 4300s, and I have overclocked an intel board using softfsb.

 

[ai42]

See now what you do it use a proggie download your bios, find the hex key for the FSB setting and mess with it there. You would have to reflash your bios every time you made a FSB adjustment. It is probbably there just that Dell dosen't give you access to it.