Originally posted by: jliechty
Originally posted by: titanmiller
I was reading a review site on the EP-8RDA+ and they said that throught their testing they had to physicaly remove the bios chip multiple times and let it set so it would reset itself because it was so easy to corrupt. This cant be true can it? They also said that using low latency ram will corrupt the bios. Are they just trying to spread horror stories or is this an acctual problem?
I've had an 8RDA for many months now (overclocked most of that time), and have only corrupted the CMOS (not BIOS) during a few extreme overclocking attempts. Removing the
battery for 30 seconds solved the problem very well. There was an issue with high-speed RAM, but I think that was fixed in a later BIOS. In times past, you'd have to borrow a stick of "slow" (PC/2100 or 2400) DDR SDRAM to boot up with, fix the memory timings in the BIOS, swap out borrowed RAM, replace with fast RAM, and then start the system. (it's funny how I can remember the fix, but not exactly what the problem was
)