flashing a motherboard

[shuggy2002]

i am looking to get a asus sk8v mobo but might need to flash it to accept my cpu , fx-53. How do u actually flash the mobo bios without a cpu ??? or i is it relativly easy to do ?


help plz!!

thanks.

 

[DieHardware]

Originally posted by: shuggy2002
i am looking to get a asus sk8v mobo but might need to flash it to accept my cpu , fx-53. How do u actually flash the mobo bios without a cpu ??? or i is it relativly easy to do ?


help plz!!

thanks.

LOL! Not too easy to do without a CPU.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Originally posted by: DieHardware

Originally posted by: shuggy2002
i am looking to get a asus sk8v mobo but might need to flash it to accept my cpu , fx-53. How do u actually flash the mobo bios without a cpu ??? or i is it relativly easy to do ?


help plz!!

thanks.

LOL! Not too easy to do without a CPU.

That would be very tricky indeed LOL

 

[joelslaw]

Dear fellow forum n00b,
a pc won't power on without a cpu in it.
you sound like you're really green. (that's cool though, you gotta start somewhere) I personally have only been a pc freak for about 2 years. But, hangin' around here you'll learn a lot. Hope to see ya around.

 

[joelslaw]

yo shuggy: I was just at the asus site and I could only find one version of the bios (other than the original) and it doesn't say anything about adding cpu compatability. Are you sure you need to flash to run an fx53?

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Just read your post more carefully why would you need to flash the bios to take and fx-53 I thought you only needed to flash the bios to accept 90nm CPU's

 

[shuggy2002]

i found this , http://www.asus.com.tw/support...upport/cpusupport.aspx for the mobo i was going to get.

So after analyzing the piss take replies am assuming you boot up with the CPU but if the bios won't accept it then where would it actually get me ? or would it give me an option ?

 

[shuggy2002]

i found this , http://www.asus.com.tw/support...upport/cpusupport.aspx for the mobo i was going to get.

So after analyzing the piss take replies am assuming you boot up with the CPU but if the bios won't accept it then where would it actually get me ? or would it give me an option ?

 

[joelslaw]

you still have to have it installed. like I said before, the pc won't power up w/o a cpu. Usually there is a kind of safe mode you can boot into by doing certain things. (like on the a8v, you put one ram stick in slot three) It will let you boot in that "safe mode" (it's not really any different than a regular boot), flash it, then you can go about your business. Do you have windows installed on the hdd or is it a clean one? If it's clean, do you have another pc you can use to download the bios?

 

[joelslaw]

you are using regitered ram, right?

 

[shuggy2002]

Iv not got the stuff yet. im jus looking about to see the best prices and seeing if i can find a decent ram/mobo combination in the uk.

 

[joelslaw]

oh ... well, it's kind of hard to give for sure answers for theoretical questions, but judging by the fact that I haven't found much on this particular subject (neither in this forum, nor elsewhere) it must not be to much of a problem.

Are parts harder to find in the uk?

 

[shuggy2002]

Well its not hard to find , ust more expensive here. There are very few mobos forthe fx 940 anyways so the oneihave found i have ordered. Buti jus wanted to make sure everything isok before i actually bought the stuff but thanks anyways.

 

[joelslaw]

if you end up getting it, let me know if everything works smoothly. it's helps to know things like that.