need ing a third-party BIOs for a hewlett packard

[Tyson82]

trying to beef up my friends HP pavillion, cely 700. Ya ya I know trash it and get a new one. Id love to but he cant afford it, he's 14.

Im just looking to get some more BIOs options, possibly up the fsb some and get BIOs to stop freaking ove the pci vid card I put in.

If anyone knows where to at least look for a third party BIOS Id much appreciate the information.

thx in advance

 

[10102BORG]

How about giving us more info about the system..........like the manufacturer of the mb. or atleast a model for the HP box.

Sometimes oem mbs are just different enough that the bios from the manufacturer will not work. You run the risk of rendering the mb useless with a incompatible bios. The safest option is to see if the mb has a jumper for 100mhz operation and see if the cely runs @ 100mhz fsb. Good Luck.

 

[Tyson82]

hmm. just barely got this sytem from the kid. Ill take a look for ajumper but I doubt it.

Also its an HP Pavilion xe783. Its got an Asus mobo i according to Sandra. Ill get inside it and look around and then post back.

thx so far.

 

[10102BORG]

The mb is an ASUS CUW-AM mb ( i810 based micro ATX board ) and does not have a 100mhz jumper and is not upgradable. The only upgrade possible is another m-ATX mb supporting more powerful cpus.

HP Pavilion Desktop PCs - Motherboard Layout and Information, ASUS CUW-AM

 

[Tyson82]

thats what I figured. Anyway, I may just go with a modded BIOS. Unicore.com makes replacement BIOS chips with your specific requirements. Guy on AMDZone did it to an old HP K6 system. Pretty expensive though it would seem.