New KT7A / KT7A-RAID BIOS

[Summo]

This will have limited interest to people here but I know there are a few semi-regulars with this motherboard. New BIOS available here.

It only has one additional feature which is:

Fix nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4x00 AGP card compatible issue with Windows XP.

which got me excited as I reckon it will fix this issue which I never really corrected, aside from knocking my AGP mode down from x4 to x2.

I'm now running in x4 with the new BIOS version and I'll test it tomorrow.

I seem to remember Ono having a similar problem...

 

[Summo]

It didn't work.

 

[Happy Go Lucky]

The server is down at the moment, funny the barrysworld ftp server is down as well, is the internet crumbling around me.

I recently enabled fast writes on my gf2mx, and I seem to get more consistent 3dmark scores, before my score was higher on agp2x than agp4x, now its about the same.

 

[Summo]

The saga continues...

Well, I'm not sure what it was, either the new nVidia drivers, the new VIA drivers or this BIOS update, but GTA3 fecking flies now! Smoother than ever before and I've been able to whack the resolution up with absolutely no noticeable drop in performance, yet still running at x2.

Marvellous.

 

[PR.]

I would play GTA3 again but I can only find my monitor in my spare room after moving the contents of my bedroom into the spare room.

Can't even get in the door

 

[suj]

via drivers

Summo are you sure you've installed via drivers? I got a kt7a-raid too and before I installed them - gta wouldn't work at all! I'll find the thread i created

 

[(Shovel)]

Awww... this is a BIOS update that I'll probably actually need.. and last time I tried to do it I fried my motherboard (managed to do it again somehow though).

Erm, while we're on the subject, can anyone tell me how to make a suitable boot disk for doing BIOS flashing.
Last time I just went to the Win98 command prompt (on boot) and broke it. I persuaded it ot give me a command prompt AFTER it broke and it worked.
I understand that I need a completely empty prompt - no drivers, no programs or anything. I'm just unsure (and after last time, unconfident in myself) how exactly I'm supposed to do this.

Must be easy I'm sure, I've just got jitters.

 

[xane]

Originally posted by (Shovel)
Erm, while we're on the subject, can anyone tell me how to make a suitable boot disk for doing BIOS flashing.

Why don't you just format a floppy, make sure you include the "system" files, and use that (assuming you are still on Windows 98) ?

 

[(Shovel)]

Whoops, unclear. I'm on XP now. I take it this makes it harder.

The problem is that I don't know what these "key" system files are. After last time I'd rather be totally sure I'm not going to break it again.

 

[xane]

http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Wilier]

go here for how to's for KT7, KT7A stuff.

For BIOS flash, find the BIOS section, then its question 8 on the list.

 

[(Shovel)]

Thank you for all the links.

I got DrDos (as recommended in the tutorial) from the bootdisk site and flashed it sucessfully. Oh how my heart was racing - can't be healthy.

Anyway, it's all clear for a GF4 now which I *will* order... soon..

 

[xane]

for those scared of BIOS updates

 

[Summo]

Shovel, to make a boot disk on XP; insert a floppy, open your My Computer folder from the Start Menu, right-click the floppy drive and select Format. Check the box that says 'Create an MS-DOS startup disk'

Or use bootdisk.com as Cama suggests.

 

[caLLous]

I got all excited and then realised I have a KR7A-RAID.

 

[Wilier]

Originally posted by caLLous
I got all excited and then realised I have a KR7A-RAID.

nob.

 

[caLLous]