PII 720 x3 BE 4th core question.

[kipliq]

I just picked up a gigabyte board and i will never buy asus again lol. the board is heavy with 2 oz copper. I just enabled the ACC to auto and the 4th core did not show up. In the bios under the ACC setting, I can see the 4 cores and options are Auto, Per core. This means I have a proc with a bad 4th core? I'm not unhappy it would have been a bonus.

 

[Bandit1]

I have'nt kept up on this once hot topic.I have a working 4th core on a biostar board,but my last reading was biostar next release bios would not allow this Even with a good 4th core.In my bios i have setting under ACC>"all cores"which enables it.Gonna take some board/bios/cpu batch research maybe to figure it all out.

 

[kipliq]

For my gigabyte board I did not have an ACC option with the F3 Bios but when upgrading to the F4 bios the option was available. I guess my bios has disabled the 4th core sad. but the board still rocks. If I can install a bios that would work , that would be great. All try the ACC set to all cores.

 

[Ikonomi]

My guess is that they've disabled it in the new BIOS. Many manufacturers were pushed this way (presumably) by AMD. I haven't updated my Biostar's BIOS because of it, but I may have to one day if they release updated RAID drivers for the SB750.

 

[Stoneburner]

Just installed a 710 in the biostar ta790gx... immediately unlocked the 4th core.

 

[kipliq]

anyone know if I can downgrade my bios to an older edition so i can try and unlock my 4th core. The batch numbers looks like i should have a working 4th core.

 

[Stoneburner]

As long as you use the floppy method you should be able to downgrade just fine. I've done it with asus boards, not gigabyte boards.

EDIT: You have to be careful the older bios has PII support.

 

[kipliq]

where do i get a working ACC gigabyte 790x bios. They have removed all the bios only one left is the F4 on the site.

 

[kipliq]

I found a F2B driver, can someone tell me if this is the driver to use so I can see if my 4th core is working? How dependable are the bios from this site. Since my board has dual bios. If I load a nonworking bios, will the second bios kick in and fix the main bios? Any gigabyte people around.

My board is a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P (1.0)


http://www.driversdown.com/dri...OS-F2B-DOS_87990.shtml