Hey whats up, I need a little help with a bios issue. I have this friend that has a Biostar AMD motherboard with the viaKT133a chipset. The processor that he is using is the XP1700+. For some reason, even after flashing the bios with the latest updates, the system displays that it is posting at 1100 mhz instead of the 1450 (whatever) mhz it should post at. I seem to remember that with some motherboards, and the bios on them, there was a slight problem with either just not being able to display the correct speed or it actually not running at the right speed at all (in which case you update the bios).
So I've flashed the bios but it is still not showing the correct speed. Any ideas on what could be causing this problem? Is it even a problem worth worrying about? It seems to run like it should being an XP1700+ proc but its deffinately annoying seeing it display the wrong speed. The only thing I can think is that the bios flash I am using, allthough the most up to date, either isn't working for some reason, or just doesn't fix the problem.
As for the steps involved in flashing the bios, here are the steps that i have taken:
Downloaded the latest bios.bin file from Biostar's website along with the AwardFlash Utility.
Unzipped the bios file and flash utility onto a flopy disk that had been formatted as a start up disk in WinXP.
With that disk in place I rebooted the system and when at the "a:\" typed the name of the flash utility.
With the flash utility running I typed the name of the bios.bin file from which to program the bios with.
A few of the items in the update list had a no update status and the others had a completed status.
I didn't think much of the items which were not updated bacause some did update and it seemed like the ones that didn't update didn't need to be updated.
I rebooted the system and enterd the bios which had been reset by the flash, and changed the few settings that I change in there.
Saved and exited the bios and still the 1100mhz speed being posted.
Well, thanx for any and all help on this. Maybe someone else here has experienced the same problem ehh. Later
So I've flashed the bios but it is still not showing the correct speed. Any ideas on what could be causing this problem? Is it even a problem worth worrying about? It seems to run like it should being an XP1700+ proc but its deffinately annoying seeing it display the wrong speed. The only thing I can think is that the bios flash I am using, allthough the most up to date, either isn't working for some reason, or just doesn't fix the problem.
As for the steps involved in flashing the bios, here are the steps that i have taken:
Downloaded the latest bios.bin file from Biostar's website along with the AwardFlash Utility.
Unzipped the bios file and flash utility onto a flopy disk that had been formatted as a start up disk in WinXP.
With that disk in place I rebooted the system and when at the "a:\" typed the name of the flash utility.
With the flash utility running I typed the name of the bios.bin file from which to program the bios with.
A few of the items in the update list had a no update status and the others had a completed status.
I didn't think much of the items which were not updated bacause some did update and it seemed like the ones that didn't update didn't need to be updated.
I rebooted the system and enterd the bios which had been reset by the flash, and changed the few settings that I change in there.
Saved and exited the bios and still the 1100mhz speed being posted.
Well, thanx for any and all help on this. Maybe someone else here has experienced the same problem ehh. Later
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