Best course of action for Bad BIOS Flash? [endless string] [bios flash]

2010-08-29 / Hardware / 0 Comments

Q: Hosed my K7T Pro2A by trying the overclockers in the flash BIOS using WinFlash. The program would be 1% and then error checking. I thought it was stopped before a flash, so no need to reflash the previous BIOS. Suffice to say, I was wrong.

My computer greets me now with two normal tone u0026quot; u0026quot, beeps, followed by an endless series of high pitched beeps.

I him aware of BadFlash.com (do not know how, but I am), but there is another way to reflash my current c

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My first Opteron 170 overclocking performance [overclocking results] [bios flash]

2010-06-29 / Hardware / 0 Comments

Q: I have an Opteron 0546 170 (2 * 2.0 GHz, 2 * 1MB) from Monarch in the post yesterday, and put it in my DFI Nf4 Ultra-D (after a BIOS flash). It is cooled by an XP-90 a (slow / quiet) 3000 RPM Panaflo fan.

I got to 2.5 GHz on stock voltage (1.33 V), twice Prime small FFT stable all the way up. I was using a 166 memory divider, so when I bumped up to 2.6 GHz, my Patriot RAM 2-3-2 was then running at 216 MHz, which probably was too fast for stock CAS2 memory voltage because the compu

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1.6a oc my have to hit reset to start [bios flash] [vcore]

2010-06-22 / Hardware / 0 Comments

Q: I do not know whats going on, when I talk about overclocking and power to not start up, but when I hit the reset it boots fine. it would be too low vCore I tried 1.42 to 1.55 thats according to the hardware monitor. It is still the 2G, but it runs fine up to 2136 (not tried higher). It is the same place as when I first had the system and a BIOS flash to recognize Northwood. Unlike inter alia, to reach and hit the reset after hitting the power it runs great, even in 2136 no problems what so ev

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