New Box - BIOS Question

[Bran The Viking]

Hello everyone, I'm planning on building a asus a7v333+AMD 2400XP rig,
however, the board doesn't support the newer processor without the
latest BIOS.

How am I supposed to get this latest BIOS on the board without the
processor working? I've never tried this before, anyody have any
experience in this kinda operation?

As a side request, what steps will I need to take to flash the BIOS?
Any good programs for doing it?

Thanks,
Brian

 

[BruceM]

The newer p[rocessor should just run at a reduced speed until you update it.
Bit vague with your info. What sort of board? If it is a "good" one, their
site will have instructions.
BruceM

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,

In the past it has not been a problem. Set the CPU for the highest speed
that the current bios supports and it should start your machine so you can
flash with a floppy. Or just let the current bios misidentify the CPU and
let it set it for what it thinks it is. That should be enough to let the
computer start. Before you consider flashing Download the bios from Asus
onto another computer and save it to a floppy.
Carefully follow the directions that Asus provides as to how to flash the
bios and you should be up to date.Asus will provide its own flash utility.
If you don't follow the procedures to the letter you're asking for a
non-functioning machine.

 

[tomcas]

Hello everyone, I'm planning on building a asus a7v333+AMD 2400XP rig,
however, the board doesn't support the newer processor without the
latest BIOS.

How am I supposed to get this latest BIOS on the board without the
processor working? I've never tried this before, anyody have any
experience in this kinda operation?

As a side request, what steps will I need to take to flash the BIOS?
Any good programs for doing it?

Thanks,
Brian

Don't use EasyFlash, do it the old fashion way by using Aflash in Dos.
Basically you have to start by making a floppy boot disk then adding the
Award flash utility and the bios flash file to the floppy.
Instructions can be found on pg 49 of the manual.
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt333/a7v333/e1010_a7v333.pdf
Here's a good bios flash tutorial-
http://students.juniata.edu/gehrigm9/biosfaq.htm
Download Dr. Dos for making the boot disk, it's quick, easy, and you
don't have to worry about running low on memory.
http://www.hellasystems.de/ftp/Utilities/BootDisk/DrDos70/drdflash.exe
Download and unzip the flash file. The latest is
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt333/a7v333/1018-001.zip
If you intend to have more than 2 drives either optical or hard drive,
and you won't be using raid, then I'd suggest using the hacked Full Pure
UDMA bios and driver from Lumberjacker.
http://www.anycities.com/user/mainboards/bios/asus/a7v333/pureudma/a7v333-1018u.zip
http://www.anycities.com/user/treiber/roms/promise/ata133.zip
Download and unzip the flash utility (I like the German version 2.21
cause it allows you to save your existing bios settings to a text file
and it allows you to clear the CMOS without having to short the solder pads.
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/BIOS_FLASH_UTILS/aflash221.zip
Make sure you can boot from your floppy drive. If not check the bios
settings to make sure the floppy is set as the first boot device. Write
down the exact name of the flash file. Boot from the floppy, run Aflash
and save your current bios just in case. Also if you want you can save
your current bios settings to a text file although they are likely to
just be defaults on a new board anyway. Flash to the new file, and clear
the cmos. Boot to bios load setup defaults
Tom

 

[Antithesis]

The newer p[rocessor should just run at a reduced speed until you update it.
Bit vague with your info. What sort of board? If it is a "good" one, their
site will have instructions.
BruceM

Hello everyone, I'm planning on building a asus a7v333+AMD 2400XP rig,
however, the board doesn't support the newer processor without the
latest BIOS.

I believe it says right there in the message what kind of board: Asus
A7V333+

Didn't seem too vague to me.

http://www.ourstrangeworld.com

 

[Bran The Viking]

Wowza! Thanks for all the input guys, I'll get right on it!