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majick Expert Cheater
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: P4PE "original" motherboard discussion |
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I have officially fryed my old motherboard. So i went digging through the old boards in the closet and grabbed out an old P4PE original.
Im having issues with getting my settings rite the bios seems bugged when overclocking.
I have had it running at 3111 on my 2700 chip but hdd says ntldr missing and @ 3030 i have no sound due to the pci/agp set up higher
I was wondering if i would crash and burn if I flashed a P4PE-BP bios on my P4PE original since the boards are pretty much the same.
Im wondering has anyone tried this or does anyone know anything to fix my sound issue and further overclock it.
I aim to get it up to 4 ghz if it is even possable on this board i have a powerfull blower fan designed to inflate 8' x 6' lawn ornaments im gonna incorporate into my cooling system
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kls85 I post too much
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Even if the boards are the same, a slight difference in the suffix of the model can render it to be different.
What you have is the Black Pearl Edition and that is not the same as the standard P4PE.
Therefore you cannot update the P4PE board with your P4PE-BE bios.
Just go to the Asus support site for the latest bios for the board your currently using.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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You will brick your board flashing it like that.
Also, if you're going to overclock, you MUST lock the PCI/PCI-e/AGP settings to their standard rate, or you will corrupt your data and make the system unstable. If you don't have the options to lock/manually set the frequency on those buses, you need to set it back to the stock clock and get a different board if you want to OC. (If your board is the one I'm thinking of, it does have locks)
*33MHz 100MHz 66MHz
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majick Expert Cheater
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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as for overclocking my pentium2700 mhz i can get it stable without the sound at 3k mhz
i learned the hard way on the bios lol bricked it, i must find somone with the same bios type to hotflash now im out of good boards.
anyone have any ideas on a good board thats cheap that i can use an old amd64 2.0ghz and toy with it im building a comp for a friend also from scraps here
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Cheetah I post too much
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| majick wrote: | as for overclocking my pentium2700 mhz i can get it stable without the sound at 3k mhz
i learned the hard way on the bios lol bricked it, i must find somone with the same bios type to hotflash now im out of good boards.
anyone have any ideas on a good board thats cheap that i can use an old amd64 2.0ghz and toy with it im building a comp for a friend also from scraps here |
Hotflashing is a bitch, but I've done it successfully a few times.
What socket is the A64, 775 or 939?
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majick Expert Cheater
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:43 am Post subject: |
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its a 939
I have never done it personally, I don't think it will be so hard so long as i put dot side to arrow.
I have read literature on the procedure is there anything i should be aware of on doing this.
Also is the speed of doing this an issue if i go across town and do it than bring it home will it retain the bios information like a flash drive would.
On another note, on a proprietary hp board is there a solution for a bad bios other than ordering a new chip and soldering it in. I bricked it trying to make an overclock able hp bios (never try that lol)
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| majick wrote: | its a 939
I have never done it personally, I don't think it will be so hard so long as i put dot side to arrow.
I have read literature on the procedure is there anything i should be aware of on doing this.
Also is the speed of doing this an issue if i go across town and do it than bring it home will it retain the bios information like a flash drive would.
On another note, on a proprietary hp board is there a solution for a bad bios other than ordering a new chip and soldering it in. I bricked it trying to make an overclock able hp bios (never try that lol) |
My method for hotflashing:
- Find an identical working board, and pull the BIOS chip, put it in the bad board, and put a piece of fishing line under it so it's easier to pull quickly (make sure it doesn't get in the way of any contacts.) If the board is now operational then we know it was a BIOS issue.
- Put your BIOS flash disk in and let it boot, once it gets you to the command prompt, quickly switch the BIOSes.
- Run the BIOS flash program as normal.
Just make sure you line the chips up correctly, and wait until the board is fully POSTed before switching the chips and you'll be fine.
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