Asus A7V880 Mobo Problems

[IBey]

I am having a problem with my board recognizing my cpu. I have a retail +2400 seated in the slot, but it's ony posting at +1800. I tried to change this through BIOS (Rev 1004), but my changes won't hold. Now I'm having trouble flashing my BIOS because the flashing utility (AFLASH.EXE) has to be ran from a true DOS environment. You guessed it - I'm running Windows XP so I don't have one. I have MS-DOS, not DOS. Has anyone else came across this issue? Or do you have any suggestions how I can do this without wipping my drive?

A7V880 ( BIOS Rev 1004)
AMD +2400
638 Mb PC2100
ATI 9600XT 256 Mb

 

[ski]

The 'CPU Frequency' setting may be configured at 100 MHz in BIOS. If so, then change it to 133 MHz.
(Note: The 'AI Overclock Tuner' setting has to be Manual in order to change the CPU Frequency setting.)

 

[Freestone]

DOS bootdisk images can be found at

http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[paparazi]

IBey
One at a time:
1) retail +2400! if it's an Athlon 266fsb(Thoroughbred core)then it should have an actual clock speed of just over 2.0ghz and the jumpers/bios set to 133 (266 double pumped)

Or: the Sempron 2400 which has a real clock speed of 1.667ghz and needs jumpers/bios set to 166 (333 double pumped)
IF YOU HAVE A SEMPRON? then you need PC2700 or above to set the fsb to 166 (333) maybe you problem.

2) If you want to boot into dos then make a boot disk floppy

http://www.bootdisk.com

with the flash utility and flash Bin file (from Asus website for this exact motherboard model and revision) XP has nothing to do with it!
Then flash in dos
read the precise flashing technique on the manufactures website (Asus)

Lastly, there is no way this very new motherboard should need a flash to recognise the very much older XP2.4+, if that is what you have.

Please post back with precise hardware specs.
Martin


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