ecs Nforce3-A Bios Swapping

[Zachariah]

Does anyone know if it would be safe to cross flash the nforce3-a with the VNF-250 chaintech bios. The chaintech has 5 pci slots, same chipset, agp port ect as the Nforce3-A but has a different audio on board.

I ask this because supposedly the chaintech board's bios supports 1gb high density modules. I have 2gb strips of the high density 128x4 memory that my pc currently only recognizes as 1gb.

Now..I'm not using the onboard audio anyway so I'm curious as to whether or not I can swap the bios files out. If not, that's fine I'll just find a board that does support higher density and get by with this for the time being.

 

[o1die]

Probably not. Most new flash programs check the mobo brand before flashing, and won't work with a different brand.

 

[Peter]

Hardly. There are MANY more differences in mainboards than just the bleeding obvious. In fact, it's the subtle details that make or break BIOS compatibility - clock synthesizer chip, fine tuning of bus timing and electrical driving, super-IO chip, the wiring of the PCI slots (device numbers, interrupt wiring etc.) and many many more.

When the boards aren't even from the same manufacturer, the simple answer is: Forget it.

 

[Zachariah]

Yes I assumed that there would be a complication with that. I figured it didn't hurt to ask tho. Thanks for your help guys.