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Flashing another BIOS to overclock?

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Fun Guy

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Realized after posting this on the Motherboard forum that it might have been more appropriate here...

Wondering if I can flash my P3B533-VM board with the P4B533-V BIOS to get its features. Here is the thread if you have experience, please contribute...

BIOS Upgrade?
 
Nope. The microATX version is very different to the full ATX version of the board. You cannot do as you have asked above.
 
I disagree. It may be somewhat different, but not "very" different. What are the differences that would make what I want to do un-doable?
 
The layouts of the 2 boards are very different. There are a number of other changes if you look very closely at the boards; they are completely different PCB designs.

Unlike some other examples such as the P4S333 and the P4S533, where just the chipset itself is changed and there is no PCB change, ASUS makes some very major changes between the full ATX and the microATX versions.

Certain items are actually not present on the microATX versions, so even if you did manage to flash with the full ATX version, it wouldn't actually work.

Trust me....I know a little too much about ASUS boards sometimes.
 
For someone who knows a "little too much about ASUS boards sometimes", I am waiting for you to point out even one of the many difference you claim are there. Not that I don't believe you, but the fact that you haven't pointed anything of substance out yet, well, that's weird.

I see 6->3 PCI slots, 3->2 RAM slots, etc. But what else electronically would give me problems? Layout means relatively little when compared to electronics...
 
Originally posted by: Fun Guy
For someone who knows a "little too much about ASUS boards sometimes", I am waiting for you to point out even one of the many difference you claim are there. Not that I don't believe you, but the fact that you haven't pointed anything of substance out yet, well, that's weird.

I see 6->3 PCI slots, 3->2 RAM slots, etc. But what else electronically would give me problems? Layout means relatively little when compared to electronics...
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i would think 3->2 is pretty big.... and have you compared all the smaller ICs on the boards? personally, i wouldn't try it.
 
I can't say about your mobo in particular, but I have flashed the bios on a Baby AT board that had no OC options, to the bios for a full AT board with the same chipset from a diff manf with good results. I got the memory, and fsb setting the bios for the baby AT board didn't have.
My guess is that if the chipset is the same, the bios wouldn't care if the board had 2 pci slots or 6, just as it wouldn't matter if the board had 2 or 4 ram slots, the bios would treat them the same regardless of how many or how few slot were really on the board. I must say that I thought long and hard before I flashed to a bios not for my mobo, in the end I decided that for me if the mobo was FUBAR I could live with the loss, this was not my main rig. I would however advise extreme caution........if you can't live without the mobo I don't think you should try it.

just my 2 cents
 
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