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tanusgreystar
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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: I need to flash my BIOS |
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I have a A7N8X board with an AMD Athlon XP cpu. All of the drivers have been loaded, chipset drivers and all that. Problem is, the CPU is not recognized. It functions, but device manager lists the cpu as "unknown cpu". I used PC Wizard to id the cpu. I'm told I need to update my BIOS, but I'm a little wary. From looking at the posts on this forum it sounds like I better make sure I do it right! Which BIOS update should I download? I'm trying to run games like Oblivion. The only thing in the way is not recognizing the CPU. Thanks!  |
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mydian
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| which Athlon XP CPU do you have? If its a mobile it will always say "unknown CPU type" unless you use a modded bios. |
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tanusgreystar
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| mydian wrote: |
| which Athlon XP CPU do you have? If its a mobile it will always say "unknown CPU type" unless you use a modded bios. |
AMD Athlon XP @ 2083MHZ
That's all I know.  |
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mydian
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| hmmm.. probably a 2800+ Barton? Try running CPU-Z.. www.cpuid.com see if it says its a barton core. |
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tanusgreystar
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mydian wrote: |
| hmmm.. probably a 2800+ Barton? Try running CPU-Z.. www.cpuid.com see if it says its a barton core. |
Yes it says Barton. |
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mydian
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Then your safest bet would probably be to just get the latest official bios for your motherboard. Your next step is figuring out exactly which A7N8X you have.. A7N8X, A7N8X-Deluxe, A7N8X-X, A7N8X-E Deluxe, etc. CPU-Z may also be able to tell you that.. I sold mine off awhile ago so I don't remember if it did. Look under the motherboard tab. Also, which bios version is it using now? |
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tanusgreystar
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| mydian wrote: |
| Then your safest bet would probably be to just get the latest official bios for your motherboard. Your next step is figuring out exactly which A7N8X you have.. A7N8X, A7N8X-Deluxe, A7N8X-X, A7N8X-E Deluxe, etc. CPU-Z may also be able to tell you that.. I sold mine off awhile ago so I don't remember if it did. Look under the motherboard tab. Also, which bios version is it using now? |
Model: A7N8X
BIOS version: ASUS A7N8X ACPI BIOS Rev 1019 Beta 003 T2 |
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mydian
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Well, on ASUS website.. the newest bios for a regular A7N8X is 1010.. so something not sounding right if your on 1019, even if its a beta. Where did you get the beta bios from? I'm suprised it's not recognizing your cpu. |
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tanusgreystar
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| mydian wrote: |
| Well, on ASUS website.. the newest bios for a regular A7N8X is 1010.. so something not sounding right if your on 1019, even if its a beta. Where did you get the beta bios from? I'm suprised it's not recognizing your cpu. |
I don't remember where it told me to do this but I rebooted and the first screen that comes up and tells you your BIOS version said it was 1001E. Does that help? |
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mydian
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Kind of.. that sounds like it has close to the original bios on it I'm guessing. I'm kind of suprised none of the A7N8X experts have chimed in here yet.
You need to figure out exactly which version of the board you have.. and what revision of it. If it is a A7N8X there is a revision 1 and 2.. You might want to look at the board itself.. it should be labeled somewhere. Thats the problem with that board is there are so many versions of it.. but, once you find out the exact version board you have, you can download a new bios right of Asus' website.
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