A7M266 BIOS

[Boondock_Saint]

Just thought I'd tell all you people who have the A7M266, that it officially works with the AthlonXP now, with their latest patch.

AMD® 761 Chipset

A7M266 (5 PCI, 266MHz FSB, 2GB DDR SDRAM support, UltraDMA/100, Optional 3Com® LAN and Cmedia® Audio)
- BIOS Upgrade and Road Map :

am261005.zip
A7M266 BIOS Ver. 1005 10/15/2001
Add support for AMD® Athlon XP CPU.
Add support for AMD® Morgan CPU.
am26104a.zip
A7M266 BIOS Ver. 1004A 06/12/2001
Latest June Release.



http://www.asus.com/products/motherboard/bios_socka.html

:tongue: Have you ever tried cooking an egg on your HSF? Tasty. :tongue:

 

[Boondock_Saint]

Problems problems problems....


Old Bios (1004A): 42oC
New Bios (1005) : 50oC

I changed nothing. Hrrrmmm......

Both with 1.4GHz Athlon.

:tongue: Have you ever tried cooking an egg on your HSF? Tasty. :tongue:

 

[ozmol]

Damn! I just posted about this before seeing your post. Sorry all.

I've got eactly the same problem.
Updated from v1003 to v1005 and got a 8 degree temp increase for my trouble.
What the hell is going on Asus!?!?

 

[Boondock_Saint]

I posted on the MBM forums and Alex thinks they removed the "HTL" command in the BIOS, whatever that is...

:tongue: Have you ever tried cooking an egg on your HSF? Tasty. :tongue: