HELP!! AMI bios flash to large?!

[rnimz]

Ok here's the story, I have an old PC-Chips (M-571) motherboard (no I didn't buy it) which was running a cyrix MII 300, so I bought a k62 500 for it to run at x6.0 (2.0) by 83mhz bus. When I popped the chip in it posted at 500 mhz as an AMD k6 (tm) -2 500. But as soon as it tried to read a boot drive it beeped at me and froze. So I spent the next half hour online, found what I thought was the latest bios and flashed it, pluged the k62 back in, and the thing did it again, so I went back online and found a bios version from early this year that somehow I had missed. So I went to install this newer bios and everything goes fine up until the point when it should start flashing it, and the flash program (AMIFL818.exe & AMIFL817.exe) tells me that the bios file is to large (256k). Has anyone experienced this before? I tried the pervious version of it (AMI817.exe) but I couldn't find an earlier version. If anyone has any suggestions or has AMIFL815 laying around any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[hatboy]

I would guess that you probably downloaded a bios for a different board (or a different revision of your board) by accident. Your bios is probably a 1 Mb (128k) as opposed to 2 Mb (256k).

 

[rnimz]

Ok I think you are correct, I looked and the bios I grabbed was for a revision 5 board and mine is 7, but my problem still remains, I am not going to be able to run this chip on this board? Everything is set correctly, including voltage (2.2). I am going to try to underclock it in the hopes that that will fix the problem, The problem also isn't heat as I have let it sit until everything is cold with the case open and a decent sized cpu fan and a case fan blowing on it. Any help anyone could give me would be great. I don't really want to have to buy a mobo for the chip since I could have just bought a duron and a new board and gotten a much better solution, but if I have to I may to pick up a refurb FIC PA-2013 for $45 if I can't get things resolved, since that is already past the max I should be spending.

 

[rnimz]

well, a couple of flashes later, a return to the first bios I flashed to, and I finally got around to seeing if the chip would work at 400 mhz instead of 500, and well perfectly stable. arg, gunna bump up to 75mhz bus, see what happens.