Situation with NF7 boards?

[ku]

Hi... I just ordered the Abit NF7 and it's on its way here atm. I've read the NF7-S thread and I'm a bit confused about the BIOS issue. Exactly what do I have to do to avoid it?

 

[Megatomic]

Can you be more specific about the problem you are trying to avoid? I am aware of no problems...

 

[DJMiX]

IF you push the FSB TOO High you can corrupt the bios.

I've had a large # of orders for new chips on this board. Must be true I quess Don't know I don't own this particular board.

 

[Megatomic]

Hmm, I've pushed my system to 225MHz in the past with no BIOS corruption. Must be the old Rev. 1.x boards...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Most of the older gen. nF2 boards suffered the bios corruption issue but the newer gen. boards do not. I experienced it on an older Soltek SL-75MRN-L but was able to recover the board by popping the battery and bios chip for 10-15min, not once but twice. Many others weren't so fortunate and they had to resort to hot flashing, ordering new chips, or RMAing their boards.