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- May 29, 2004
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- Alpharetta, Georgia
spazzmattah said:That's awesome Cordial. You know, if Prime runs for hours I wouldn't worry about that temp reading.
Let me tell you something. The other day I went to Chaintech website and downloaded the 7/29 BIOS. I had a heck of a time flashing that thing. When I was finally able to flash it, my temp readings was all screwed up! Idle temp was like 62 degrees C. I thought well the reading has to be wacked cuz I didn't change a thing, it's still running the same 2.56 GHz with the same cooling and everything. So I launched Prime 95 and after 10 minutes Windows frooze! I didn't even bother troubleshooting this crap. I reflashed the 3/8 BIOS back on right away and voila! My temps were normal again (40/49 idle/load), and Prime stable again. Just a little experience I'd like to share. So the original BIOS seems to be the best for my board.
Hmm first I ran prime for almost an hour without and errors, but when I restart my comp (installed some program, so I had to) and when it boots up, prime crashed in like 5 min..and I closed up prime and then back on ran for another hour without problem. I had to shut it off because I was using my cousin's video card..my card is still not here yet. Once I got my 9800pro I'll see how far I can tweak this system. Btw I've used the stock 3/8 bios and it reported as 23 idle and 29 load, and 5/1?/04 bios as 60 idle 70 load lol and this one as 52 idle and 66 load whoa this thing is so off, I used WinFlash to flash the bios and it worked like a charm, took me like less than 1 mintue to flash a bios. I might try out the 3/8 bios tho when I got my vid card.