I'm planning to buy a A8v-deluxe with a new "Venice" cpu (3500+).
AFAIK the board is currently shipped with 1009 Bios, but the "Venice"
needs a 1011 to run.

Anyone knows if the A8v 1009 at least POST with the "Venice", for the
possibility to flash the bios?
Or does the bootable floppydisk the trick?
When will newer A8v have the 1011 "on board"?

Any experience?

TIA
Peter

I suspect it would at least boot with some really conservative parameters,
allowing you to flash to 1011.

side note: 1011 has been working very well for me w/ the following
configuration

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Windows XP (2600-Professional) w/ SP2
AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53, 1MB L2 Cache (2.4ghz@200mhz-FSB)
ASUS "A8V Deluxe Wi-Fi" K8T800 Pro (BIOS: 1011)
VIA Hyperion 4in1 456v
1024mb (2 x (512mb OCZ Platinum EL (2-3-2-5) DDR400/PC3200) Dual Channel)
[OCZ4001024ELDCPE-K]
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Catalyst 4.10) (C-378mhz / M-337.5mhz) OC to
(C-411.75mhz / M-360.00mhz)
SbAudigy 5.1 (PCI-Slot 3)

*Promise FastTrak 378 (PDC20378) 2+0/RAID 0*
120gb Western Digital WD1200JB (RAID 1of2)
120gb Western Digital WD1200JB (RAID 2of2)

16x HI-VAL DVDRom (BDV316C) secondary/master
Plextor (PX-716SA) VIA SATA-1

LianLi PC-6070 *Silent* Aluminum Mid-Tower Case | 2x80mm intake fans, 1x80mm
exhaust fan, 1x slot cooler
OCZ Modstream 520watt PSU | +3.3V(28A), +5V(52A), +12V(28A)
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"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm planning to buy a A8v-deluxe with a new "Venice" cpu (3500+).
> AFAIK the board is currently shipped with 1009 Bios, but the "Venice"
> needs a 1011 to run.
>
> Anyone knows if the A8v 1009 at least POST with the "Venice", for the
> possibility to flash the bios?
> Or does the bootable floppydisk the trick?
> When will newer A8v have the 1011 "on board"?
>
> Any experience?
>
> TIA
> Peter
>
>

Worse case you can order bios 1011 from www.badflash.com


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ASUS A8V/Athlon 64 FX-55
ATI RADEON X800XT PE
1GB OCZ Gold Edition Rev3 DDR PC-3700