Tyan Trinity i875P (S5101) P4 Prescott support removed?

[pjs]

I have a Tyan Trinity i875P (S5101) motherboard in my system.

When I researched this motherboard, prior to purchase, Tyan's web site for the bios revisions for this boad showed a bios revision that said that P4 Prescott support was added.

My motherboad had a more current bios revision that I soon updated to v1.11. Things were fine.

I recently flashed the bios to v1.12. I did this because v1.11 did not work with Tyan's motherboard monitor software ( under win xp sp2 ). At the same time, I downloaded, but did not install, the 2.24 verion of the monitor software.

When I flashed the bios th v1.12 and restarted my computer, the bios reported that my cpu was not suitable and the system shut down a few minutes later. Again, bios 1.11 was fine.

I temorarily put in an old Norwood P4 and flashed the bios to v1.11 and went back to my Prescott cpu.

I noted that on Tyan's web site that all reference to Prescott support in the list of bios revisons is now removed. Instead, the list says 'CPU microcode added' or 'CPU microcode revised'.

So, it seems to me that Tyan wants to pretend that there never was any bios revison that added Prescott support. Also, bios v1.12 disables a P4 Prescott system, by intent, it looks like.

Does anybody here have similar recollecion in regards to the Tyan Trinity i875P (S5101) motherboard and P4 Prescott support?


Paul
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[pjs]

I did some google searching and found some cached pages that had information about the Tyan bios that added Prescott support.

Bios version 1.10 added Prescott support. Here is text, which confirms my memory. I did not install this bios because when I purchased my Tyan board, version 1.11 bios was available.


TYAN TRINITY i875P BIOS version 1.10
New features and Fixes :
Solved issue with AHA-2930LP and a SCSI CD-ROM
Updated CPU temperature readings
Improved Hard Drive compatibility
Fixed system hang error when changing CPU
Updated CPU support to include Prescott series
Updated Intel NIC 82547 PXE Option ROM to v1.2.17
Patch PQI memory stick could not boot issue
Fixed CPU Frequency item value limit incorrect problem
Fixed system can't boot from "ACCUSYS ACS-7500 RAID SYSTEM" HDD box
Solved system will not run Promise Option ROM if using USB Floppy or CD-ROM and set it boot first
Make 100Mhz host clock accurately
Patch system can't boot form OnSpecInc 90C46 CF card reader
Solved Power loss recover function fail

Here is information on the cached page:

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Note that I got my information from the text-only cached page.

Here is Tyan's current (as of today, Friday, Nov. 12, 2004) information on bios v1.10:


TYAN TRINITY i875P BIOS V1.10
New features and Fixes :
* Solved issue with AHA-2930LP and a SCSI CD-ROM
* Updated CPU temperature readings
* Improved Hard Drive compatibility
* Fixed system hang error when changing CPU
from FSB 800 to FSB 533 or FSB400
* Updated Intel NIC 82547 PXE Option ROM to v1.2.17
* Patch PQI memory stick could not boot issue
* Fixed CPU Frequency item value limit incorrect
problem
* Fixed system can't boot from "ACCUSYS ACS-7500
RAID SYSTEM" HDD box
* Solved system will not run Promise Option ROM if
using USB Floppy or CD-ROM and set it boot first
* Make 100Mhz host clock accurately
* Patch system can't boot form OnSpecInc 90C46
CF card reader
* Solved Power loss recover function fail


Note that Tyan has removed the Prescott support.

Paul