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Outhouse   06-17-2003 at 01:23:08 AM

I have a system here with a ECS P6VXA motherboard in it. System has never worked properly. Locking up intermitently etc. I just went to there webpage to see about new driver or bios etc. I noticed that there was two versions of the board 1.0 and 1.0x. I looked on the board and it's just stamped with 1.0 but on bottup it's has version 2.0c bios on it. which is for the 1.0x model. It is posibility not stamped properly or could the board still operating using bios from another version of the board. I was thinking of flash it to the 1.0 model bios version but I'm leary of it screwing it up totally. Any idea or suggestions appreciated.

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Crashman   06-17-2003 at 02:02:45 AM
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Um, PC-Chips (the maker of ECS) is a notoriously bad company. And VIA is a historically bad chipset maker. Both can be problematic, so it looks like you got the worst of both worlds.

Can you return it?

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Outhouse   06-17-2003 at 02:29:38 AM
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Unfortunately no.

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fisherman   06-18-2003 at 08:24:13 PM
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I would be tempted to re-flash to the bios that goes with your 1.0 board. First I would do the following:
Check with tech support to see if using the wrong bios could even cause your problem.
Be prepared to flash back to the bios version on your board now.
Verify that you can buy the pre-flashed bios chip that goes with your board in case you end up with more serious problems. This should be available.

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