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- Aug 1, 2002
- Location
- Michigan
Ok I think Zotac messed up something badly... like brain surgeon accidentally cutting out testicles instead of brain.
I got a better heat sink and made sure it was seated properly. But the CPU was still cooking at 105C so I had to poke around the BIOS.
Vcore was set to 1. 45v
using optimal and fail safe setting did not lower that so I think the BIOS is bugged with incorrect voltage setting. I can manually lower the Vcore but the best I can get is 1.35v and that brings the CPU down to a sizzling 70C (IDLE temp!!)
I checked for BIOS update, and the procedure to update it. The only way to flash it is with a floppy disk with flash program and BIOS file... except the mobo has NO FLOPPY SLOT!!
USB floppy drive are notoriously unreliable for booting PC. It seems cheap brand is not boot capable, cheap PC can't boot from USB (including THIS one)
So how the heck do I flash BIOS from floppy drive when the board has no floppy slot and doesn't boot from USB at all?
Zotac needs to fire their team for lack of proofreading, no way to flash bios and not checking for proper CPU voltage.
If there is no way to flash it, can someone suggest ITX sized board with socket 1156 that has: minimum of 3 USB ports, 3 SATA ports, 2 DDR3 slots, wireless, and PCIe 8x or 16x?
I got a better heat sink and made sure it was seated properly. But the CPU was still cooking at 105C so I had to poke around the BIOS.
Vcore was set to 1. 45v
using optimal and fail safe setting did not lower that so I think the BIOS is bugged with incorrect voltage setting. I can manually lower the Vcore but the best I can get is 1.35v and that brings the CPU down to a sizzling 70C (IDLE temp!!)
I checked for BIOS update, and the procedure to update it. The only way to flash it is with a floppy disk with flash program and BIOS file... except the mobo has NO FLOPPY SLOT!!
USB floppy drive are notoriously unreliable for booting PC. It seems cheap brand is not boot capable, cheap PC can't boot from USB (including THIS one)
So how the heck do I flash BIOS from floppy drive when the board has no floppy slot and doesn't boot from USB at all?
Zotac needs to fire their team for lack of proofreading, no way to flash bios and not checking for proper CPU voltage.
If there is no way to flash it, can someone suggest ITX sized board with socket 1156 that has: minimum of 3 USB ports, 3 SATA ports, 2 DDR3 slots, wireless, and PCIe 8x or 16x?