After completely screwing myself by destroying the BIOS on my IWill KK266Plus-R last week, I finally got my replacement today and am happy to say that it's still working. When I received the first motherboard I immediately went to work overclocking my Athlon 1.4Ghz. I started by raising the FSB to 140. No problem. Next stop was 150. Running great! Well, instead of taking small steps at this point I went right to 160. WHOOPS! 
The system posted fine and started loading Win2K. That's when the error messages started. This file missing, that file corrupted. At this point I knew I had corrupted the hard drive, but the windows logon screen came up and I actually got into windows for a few seconds before the system became very unstable. I restarted the computer and went to the BIOS to set the FSB back to 133...but there was nothing there. Just a black screen with a flashing cursor. It took me just 15 minutes to destroy the BIOS on my first AMD system!
To make a long story short, I RMA'd the motherboard back to Newegg (who, BTW, is great about returns!) and got the replacement today. The system is up and running (and not overclocked...yet) and I must say, I'm very impressed with the performance of the Athlon. This is my first Athlon system and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever build another Intel system...
- Dave
The system posted fine and started loading Win2K. That's when the error messages started. This file missing, that file corrupted. At this point I knew I had corrupted the hard drive, but the windows logon screen came up and I actually got into windows for a few seconds before the system became very unstable. I restarted the computer and went to the BIOS to set the FSB back to 133...but there was nothing there. Just a black screen with a flashing cursor. It took me just 15 minutes to destroy the BIOS on my first AMD system! To make a long story short, I RMA'd the motherboard back to Newegg (who, BTW, is great about returns!) and got the replacement today. The system is up and running (and not overclocked...yet) and I must say, I'm very impressed with the performance of the Athlon. This is my first Athlon system and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever build another Intel system...
- Dave
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