I learn by mistakes. This year I decided to upgrade my motherboard from Matsonic(EWEWWW vomit) to Abit BH7...gee I wonder why? anyways, that is how I destroyed my Pentium 4 2.0 ghz through improper heatsink installation. but all was well when i got my current 2.66(much better). Now on to learning about BIOS. Abit has released several bios revisions and since there was absolutely nothing wrong with my computer I decided, lets risk it. So I put the new bios disk in and flash the bios when the computer starts up without booting into dos. Goodbye working bios. I tried endlessly to fix this using everything anyone has ever suggested without any luck. Thankfully, Newegg had a bh7 refurbished for 39 bucks(vs. new 82) and I decided to order that. To my suprise I recieved a brand new board revision 1.1 with a usb cable that I didnt have before. Today I looked on excaliberpc.com and they just started selling replacement abit bh7 bios chips. I plan on buying one for my "dead" board and putting together a general use computer. My advice is DONT UPDATE BIOS unless there is something that is a problem.
Oh yea and give abit tech support a call sometime on off hours, the recording is kinda funny.
oh one more warning, I have a thermalright SLK800 heatsink, if you should need to remove it from your processor make sure you break the seal between the two with a screwdriver before pulling it off. I almost destroyed another processor by doing this!
Oh yea and give abit tech support a call sometime on off hours, the recording is kinda funny.
oh one more warning, I have a thermalright SLK800 heatsink, if you should need to remove it from your processor make sure you break the seal between the two with a screwdriver before pulling it off. I almost destroyed another processor by doing this!