Softmenu III help

[Spikesoldier]

Its not in my bios on my uATX BD7m, and there are no dipswitches. I thought all abit boards had Softmenu...and googlegear advertised it as having it, but I bought from axiontech at a lower price and got it without it. Also there are screenshots in the manual, with Softmenu III excluded from the options in the BIOS. Can a flash bring me Softmenu III or should I just return it?

 

[LarryJoe]

Flash it to the latest and see.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Also, there is a setting under BIOS in the screenshot called Frequency Control - Do you think this is a version (or stripped down version) of Softmenu III or something I can use to tweak the FSB/Voltage?

Sorry I haven't gotten all my parts to get this computer running yet, will LYK how it turns out.

If all else fails I guess I can stay at stock speed, which just defeats my purpose of buying it

 

[Spikesoldier]

<< Also, there is a setting under BIOS in the screenshot called Frequency Control - Do you think this is a version (or stripped down version) of Softmenu III or something I can use to tweak the FSB/Voltage?

Sorry I haven't gotten all my parts to get this computer running yet, will LYK how it turns out.

If all else fails I guess I can stay at stock speed, which just defeats my purpose of buying it >>



I find out when I finally fire up the system that Freqency control isnt even there, even there is screenshots of it in the manual!!! Should I try flashing the board with the original BD7 BIOS and see what happens? Will I damage my hardware if I do?

 

[Blain]

Make sure you load your apps from the Abit CD.

 

[Spikesoldier]

what applications?

<--- abit noob

 

[Blain]

I had an Abit board that didn't show the Softmenu until I loaded something from the CD. Sorry I forgot what it was called.
After I loaded it, BINGO... there was the Softmenu just like it was supposed to be.

 

[Spikesoldier]

something you load from a cd on windows then somehtign appears in the BIOS? weird...