HELP ! How to update bios without a freakin extra CPU ?

[vinayag]

THIS IS F*%^&#*@#* CRAZY.

A lot of people here recmomended the PIII 733and a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard as a stable combination. Now I find out that this freaking mb does not support the cumines without a bios update to 1.07. Does that bloddy mean that I need another intel chip just to startup the mb and update the bios before I can put the p3 in there ?

This is so freaking silly. I do not have any spare celerons or p2's lying around !!! Any way around this mess ?

 

[office boy]

It should boot, it just may not recognise the CPU correctly...
It might say it's an Unknown Intel CPU, or a P2....
Shouldn't really be a big deal.

 

[Henry Kuo]

Yeah, it might regconize it as a slower cpu or whatever, but it should boot. As long as you are able to boot, you ca flash the bios.

 

[WetWilly]

Where did you get that from?

This is from Tyan's BIOS info page for the Trinity 400 1.07 BIOS:


<< Added new flipchip Celeron, 850 or higher speed PIII support. Added USB KB/Mouse legacy suppport. Open optional on board sound support. >>



That's only for BIOS support, i.e. correct speed reading. Doesn't affect booting and regardless, the 1.07 BIOS CPU info update is for the FC-PGA Celerons and the P3-850 and up. I've booted and run a Celeron 533A on a Trinity 400 with the 1.0 BIOS. Didn't recognize it as a Celeron, but worked anyway. Only problem with the Trinity 400 and Coppermines was with early board revisions that should definitely be out of the channel by now.