Most AM2 Motherboards Not Phenom Ready

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Foxconn/Winfast K8M890M2MA-RS2H (VIA K8M890 chipset)

Board Revision: ?
Installed BIOS: 641W1P24 (08-30-2006)
Upgraded with: 641W1P41 (10-10-2007)

Once again, the BIOS version that we found on the support website was too old to support Phenom, though the version P41, dated October 10, cannot be called outdated. All other AMD processors are supported perfectly well. The K8M890M2MA is based on VIA's K8M890 chipset with integrated graphics. This certainly isn't a powerful solution, but it was a cost-effective standard platform for AMD processors.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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  • spearhead
    too many vendors boycott the upgradebility they just dont want to release a simple bios update because they want to force costumers to buy a new motherboard. it would anger me i would have bought a am2 motherboard and the vendor was such a bastard to boycott the upgrade.today those bios updates are rare too find. so far i have only few vendors who upgrade there bios. apperently ASUS support it the best so that is why i will choose ASUS above all those cheap bastards from now on
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  • will it run a am2 quad core or not?
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  • how d o get a mamuall for this motherboard0000 MSI K9NU Neo-V (ULi/Nvidia M1697)
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  • how d o get a mamuall for this motherboard0000 MSI K9NU Neo-V (ULi/Nvidia M1697)
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  • Where can i find the driver for this mother board winfast k8t890m2aa-krs2h
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