New bios for Epox 8KHA+ and the 8K7A/+ out!

[Mem]

Saw this at the Epox UK site here ,



<< New BIOSes released today for two of our flagship Socket A mainboards - the 8KHA+ and the 8K7A/+.

Model : EP-8KHA+
BIOS : 8KHI2304.BIN (3A00)
Fixed :
- Support ATA-133 HDD
- Turn off KB LED after ACPI S3/S4/S5 mode
- Fixed DRAM Bank interleave can?t modify by item if over clocked
- Huge hard disk size over 137GB support
- Added CPU support for forthcoming AMD processors

Model : EP-8K7A & 8K7A+
BIOS : 8K7A2304.BIN (8D00)
Fixed :
- Update HP370 BIOS to v2.0.0907
- Added CPU support for forthcoming AMD processors
- Support huge hard disk size over 137GB(not include High Point IDE)

>>



link for bios .


UPDATE!!! ..just flashed my 8KHA+ board with this new bios, no problems 🙂.

 

[oldfoof]

Cool....

Thanks For the heads Up.

 

[grunjee]

Up.

 

[LukFilm]

Wow, it can support ATA/133 just like that, by flashing the BIOS? 😕

 

[CurtOien]

Thanks

 

[FatMan42]

- Added CPU support for forthcoming AMD processors
...now this may just be word-play, but I'm guessing (hoping, really) that this is a reference to Thoroughbreds. Reason: there's only the one Palomino chip left to be released, the 2100+. Perhaps the plural refers to those after; T-breds...? It would be nice to have this finally confirmed after all our speculation.

 

[SnowPunk98]

Nice I may have to give it a try, I dunno though I like my 11/30 BIOS

 

[Mem]

Btw the BIOS is dated 4th March ,still no problems with this BIOS ,I will do some more testing later.The other Epox sites are slow to update to this latest BIOS version.

🙂

 

[Mungla]

Will the 8K7A support all of the XP processors?

 

[Mem]

<< Wow, it can support ATA/133 just like that, by flashing the BIOS? >>



It says

<< ATA-133 clarification: This does not add ability to use ATA-133 modes for hard drives. It allows the BIOS identify ATA-133 drives as being attached. Actual drive transfer modes limited by IDE controller (max ATA-100). >>





Mungla regarding your question on the XP CPUs for 8K7A, well on their cpu chart rev 1.2 supports XP 2000+ & rev 1.0 supports up to 1900+ ,having latest bios update (dated 3/4/2002)

says this for that board

<< Added CPU support for forthcoming AMD processors >>

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[mee987]

heh, thanks for shattering our hopes!
(thanks for the info though🙂)