Shuttle AK31A BIOS and Voltage Problems

[Kubla Khan]

I just picked up one of the Newegg refurb Shuttle AK31A mobos. So far, I've had the best stability and overclocking success with the e9 bios from 9/26/01. Using the most current BIOS, I lose about 150 mhz on my overclock. Which BIOS have you guys had the most success with?

Two other problems:

My 1600+ is unlocked, but I can only get multipliers of 11x and below to work. Anyone else seen anything similar?

Also, the voltage adjustment in the BIOS doesn't seem to do anything. My voltage readings from Sandra and from the BIOS remain at 1.70 to 1.73 no matter what voltage setting I choose.

Any ideas?

I'm running the Shuttle with an AGOIA 1600+ and 384 MB of Crucial PC2100.

 

[farmercal]

Kubla Khan I can't help you with your decision but perhaps you can answer question for me. I am new to flashing the BIOS on motherboards (never done it yet) and have looked at the Shuttle website for the proper BIOS for my Shuttle AK35GTR motherboard. My question is at the website they list the flashing program as an .exe not a BIN or ZIP file. Do you run this .exe program to extract the BINs or zipped BIOS files? I tried to find the version you refered to in this post but didn't see it on the website. Is there something I am missing due to ignorance? I am not computer illiterate, just haven't had a need to ever flash a BIOS before. Any insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Kubla Khan]

You can put the .exe file on a bootable floppy, and then after you boot your rig with it, just run the .exe and your bios should flash. Otherwise, download the .zip file, extract to a bootable floppy, boot, and then run awdflash and enter the name of the bios .bin file.