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ThreeDee
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I have an eVGA 680i motherboard with an [email protected] w/2 1GB sticks of PC5300
..anyways , if you are familiar with this mobo , you know that there have been a few bios updates recently to address some issues a lot of users were experiencing .. I wasn't having any problems but being the adventurous "cutting edge" individual that I am , I have been grabbing the beta bios updates and all that ..
well ..eVGA put out a P23 final bios and had a hotfix update you could do from windows to get your bios up to current ..
It was 2 in the morning and I haven't slept much all week to boot and with crap running in the background and computer still overclocked in windows ..I ran the hotfix update ..rebooted and get the nice XP-64 boot screen ....then ...
Bam!
..blue screen saying I didnt have APIC enabled or something like that . So I go into bios and moving around in bios seemed delayed and clunky and then it locks up in bios. I then unplugged the power , reset cmos and fire her back up again and relax memory timing and drop multi on cpu and bios locks up before I could save anything ...
I then pulled a one stick of ram out and then booted up and was able to make some changes and save the changes and windows boots up and gives me the blue screen again about APIC not enabled (of which it was). I then grab my floppy disc that had the P23 beta bios on it and unplug all my SATA drives and then I hit ALT+F2 to do a flash back to the beta bios and it gets to the little "flashing" screen and then hangs there ..I let it sit there and fell asleep ..woke up and it was still on that screen ...yay
I then went to where I work and to my computer lab and went to eVGA's site to get their utility to make a bootable floppy and flash via a floppy disc instead of the mobo's built in flasher ..I made 2 discs in case one didnt work as I knew these floppies weren't in the greatest shape..
I came home and first floppy errored out failing to load caldera ...booted off of second disc and it got farther and then gave a different error ...more yay..
So now I grab a stack of floppies that I found in my room and head over to my church to use the office computer and tested the floppies and 3 of them seemed ok so went to eVGA again and downloaded the floppy making utility and made 3 discs ..
I come back home and boot off of first floppy ..it errors out ..I put in second floppy and it boots up and gets farther and gives error but gives me option to retry ..so I put in 3rd disc and then ..... ...... .. I can't stand it so I go into the kitchen and shoot the breeze with my sister and her husband a bit .... ... come back to my room and ...AAAAAaaAAAAHH!!! .. it said it flashed successfully !!! ..so as I trembled a bit with excitement ..I powered down my box .. unplugged the juice , replugged in my SATA drives and put the stick of memory back in that I took out and fired her back up again ...
aaahh ..get back into bios I go and its back to its normal feel ..and I load up bios defaults and save, then reset my computer again ..back into bios and reset my overclocks and mem settings ..and all is good in ThreeDee land once again ..
All I can say about that now is ...Yuh Bonehead!
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..anyways , if you are familiar with this mobo , you know that there have been a few bios updates recently to address some issues a lot of users were experiencing .. I wasn't having any problems but being the adventurous "cutting edge" individual that I am , I have been grabbing the beta bios updates and all that ..
well ..eVGA put out a P23 final bios and had a hotfix update you could do from windows to get your bios up to current ..
It was 2 in the morning and I haven't slept much all week to boot and with crap running in the background and computer still overclocked in windows ..I ran the hotfix update ..rebooted and get the nice XP-64 boot screen ....then ...
Bam!
..blue screen saying I didnt have APIC enabled or something like that . So I go into bios and moving around in bios seemed delayed and clunky and then it locks up in bios. I then unplugged the power , reset cmos and fire her back up again and relax memory timing and drop multi on cpu and bios locks up before I could save anything ...
I then pulled a one stick of ram out and then booted up and was able to make some changes and save the changes and windows boots up and gives me the blue screen again about APIC not enabled (of which it was). I then grab my floppy disc that had the P23 beta bios on it and unplug all my SATA drives and then I hit ALT+F2 to do a flash back to the beta bios and it gets to the little "flashing" screen and then hangs there ..I let it sit there and fell asleep ..woke up and it was still on that screen ...yay
I then went to where I work and to my computer lab and went to eVGA's site to get their utility to make a bootable floppy and flash via a floppy disc instead of the mobo's built in flasher ..I made 2 discs in case one didnt work as I knew these floppies weren't in the greatest shape..
I came home and first floppy errored out failing to load caldera ...booted off of second disc and it got farther and then gave a different error ...more yay..
So now I grab a stack of floppies that I found in my room and head over to my church to use the office computer and tested the floppies and 3 of them seemed ok so went to eVGA again and downloaded the floppy making utility and made 3 discs ..
I come back home and boot off of first floppy ..it errors out ..I put in second floppy and it boots up and gets farther and gives error but gives me option to retry ..so I put in 3rd disc and then ..... ...... .. I can't stand it so I go into the kitchen and shoot the breeze with my sister and her husband a bit .... ... come back to my room and ...AAAAAaaAAAAHH!!! .. it said it flashed successfully !!! ..so as I trembled a bit with excitement ..I powered down my box .. unplugged the juice , replugged in my SATA drives and put the stick of memory back in that I took out and fired her back up again ...
aaahh ..get back into bios I go and its back to its normal feel ..and I load up bios defaults and save, then reset my computer again ..back into bios and reset my overclocks and mem settings ..and all is good in ThreeDee land once again ..
All I can say about that now is ...Yuh Bonehead!
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