$50 for a BIOS update?

[jeff]

Apparently on my 8IDX i845 board I need to update my BIOS to get a new
nVidia AGP card to work.

I can't find one publicly.

Is my only option to buy an apdate from Award for $49.99 or is there
an update somewhere else that I am (hopefully) missing?

I have searched thoroughly, high and low and have come up emptyhanded.

Thanks for any insight -

 

[jaster]

Apparently on my 8IDX i845 board I need to update my BIOS to get a new
nVidia AGP card to work.

I can't find one publicly.

Is my only option to buy an apdate from Award for $49.99 or is there
an update somewhere else that I am (hopefully) missing?

I have searched thoroughly, high and low and have come up emptyhanded.

Thanks for any insight -

No bios flash update from the board manufacturer? I'd return the nVidia
and get another card that doesn't require a new bios chip from Award
assuming that chip would work on my board.

 

[Ohaya]

Apparently on my 8IDX i845 board I need to update my BIOS to get a new
nVidia AGP card to work.

I can't find one publicly.

Is my only option to buy an apdate from Award for $49.99 or is there
an update somewhere else that I am (hopefully) missing?

I have searched thoroughly, high and low and have come up emptyhanded.

Thanks for any insight -

Hi,

Is it a Gigabyte board? The BIOS updates at:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-8IDX.htm

seem to indicate that there's an update on 9/17/2002 (version F10). You
might also try the Gigabyte newsgroups, alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte
and alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte.

Jim

 

[Gene Puhl]

(e-mail address removed) astounded us with:

Apparently on my 8IDX i845 board I need to update my BIOS to get a new
nVidia AGP card to work.

I can't find one publicly.

Is my only option to buy an apdate from Award for $49.99 or is there
an update somewhere else that I am (hopefully) missing?

I have searched thoroughly, high and low and have come up emptyhanded.

Thanks for any insight -

www.badflash.com ???

 

[jeff]

Thanks all for the replies. The F10 update didn't help the AGP
weirdness.

There are in fact some really odd things happening here that I'd like
to ask about when I can get the time to describe them, hopefull
tomorrow -

Jeff