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this has probably be mentioned before somewhere in Sjaak's big dothan thread, but yup, a plain 'ol vanilla p4p800 can be bios flashed to a p4p800se
even if you have a vanilla p4p800 and but don't want a dothan, there's still pros to flashing:
1: More memory divider options (You can choose between 266/320/400/500/533Mhz dividers)
2: Extra CPU tweaks (C1E state and Thermal Management control options in BIOS).
3: Slightly enhanced ASUS hyperpath.
how to -
1. grab the latest se BETA bios (1009.004) off the asus ftp
2. grab this copy of the AFUDOS flash utility
3. unzip both, put onto floppy, boot into dos via boot disk, and use this command line to flash: afudos /i1009.004 /n /pbnc
you MUST use that command line or it'll kill your p4p800; that flashes the Boot Block and the rest of the BIOS-ROM (remember we are changing the identity of the motherboard so the entire BIOS ROM has to be flashed)
4. be happy
i've done this flash and it works fine...a bit of a performance increase too (for my p4)
credit goes to some other guy at some other forum...dunno if i'm allowed to mention more, so i'll leave it at that
even if you have a vanilla p4p800 and but don't want a dothan, there's still pros to flashing:
1: More memory divider options (You can choose between 266/320/400/500/533Mhz dividers)
2: Extra CPU tweaks (C1E state and Thermal Management control options in BIOS).
3: Slightly enhanced ASUS hyperpath.
how to -
1. grab the latest se BETA bios (1009.004) off the asus ftp
2. grab this copy of the AFUDOS flash utility
3. unzip both, put onto floppy, boot into dos via boot disk, and use this command line to flash: afudos /i1009.004 /n /pbnc
you MUST use that command line or it'll kill your p4p800; that flashes the Boot Block and the rest of the BIOS-ROM (remember we are changing the identity of the motherboard so the entire BIOS ROM has to be flashed)
4. be happy
i've done this flash and it works fine...a bit of a performance increase too (for my p4)
credit goes to some other guy at some other forum...dunno if i'm allowed to mention more, so i'll leave it at that