A8V: Why was it that Winchesters didn't work with old BIOS?

[Bucky]

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I have an A8V. I have read here that the Winchester/90nm. process
chips could not run with the early motherboards because of a BIOS
problem. I would like a clear explanation so that I can give it to
others as to what the problem was, please.

Thank you very much for your help in advance!

 

[Guest]

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In article <gsph21dfb7hjl4rehvs4onloeab2uvoq5n@4ax.com>, user@user.com
says...
>
>
>I have an A8V. I have read here that the Winchester/90nm. process
>chips could not run with the early motherboards because of a BIOS
>problem. I would like a clear explanation so that I can give it to
>others as to what the problem was, please.


I dont know much about it, I have the 130nm cpu. But the 90nm chips use
a slighlty lower core voltage (like 1.4V instead of 1.55V), and
motherboards need a BIOS upgrade level that will understand the new
chip. The Asus support AV8 FAQ says the AV8 needs bios 1007 or later
for the 90nm cpu. 1009 is available now.

 

[Bucky]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Thanks for the reply.

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:55:32 -0600, Wayne Fulton <nospam@invalid.com>
wrote:

>In article <gsph21dfb7hjl4rehvs4onloeab2uvoq5n@4ax.com>, user@user.com
>says...
>>
>>
>>I have an A8V. I have read here that the Winchester/90nm. process
>>chips could not run with the early motherboards because of a BIOS
>>problem. I would like a clear explanation so that I can give it to
>>others as to what the problem was, please.
>
>
>I dont know much about it, I have the 130nm cpu. But the 90nm chips use
>a slighlty lower core voltage (like 1.4V instead of 1.55V), and
>motherboards need a BIOS upgrade level that will understand the new
>chip. The Asus support AV8 FAQ says the AV8 needs bios 1007 or later
>for the 90nm cpu. 1009 is available now.