K7s5a flashing problem

Now I know this might not be directly related to this group, still i'm gonna
try my luck in here.

I got a MB from a friend of mine, ECS K7s5a (ver 3.1). I installed an amd
xp2200+. Booted the system and noticed that the cpu is running @ 1350 mhz.
So i tried to flash the MB so it would recognize the cpu correctly. I used
the tools provided by ECS. But when I tried to flash the MB, the programm
told me the MB doesn't support flashing.
Does anyone have a solution to this? The BIOS used is Amibios. I also tried
their flash utility, and it tells me the same thing: MB does not support
flashing.

What to do?

Any help is appreciated,

Regards Rubbie

On Sun, 07 May 2006 04:04:10 +0200, Rubbie wrote:

I got a MB from a friend of mine, ECS K7s5a (ver 3.1). I installed an amd
xp2200+. Booted the system and noticed that the cpu is running @ 1350 mhz.
What to do?

Set the FSB to 133MHz. You have it set at 100 now.

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Rubbie wrote:
Now I know this might not be directly related to this group, still i'm gonna
try my luck in here.

I got a MB from a friend of mine, ECS K7s5a (ver 3.1). I installed an amd
xp2200+. Booted the system and noticed that the cpu is running @ 1350 mhz.
So i tried to flash the MB so it would recognize the cpu correctly. I used
the tools provided by ECS. But when I tried to flash the MB, the programm
told me the MB doesn't support flashing.
Does anyone have a solution to this? The BIOS used is Amibios. I also tried
their flash utility, and it tells me the same thing: MB does not support
flashing.

What to do?

Any help is appreciated,

Regards Rubbie


The MB is fine and is doing exactly what it is supposed to. The reason
that you can not flash the mb is that there is a jumper on it to prevent
exactly what you are trying to do. You need to find and remove the
jumper to flash the BIOS. I believe your real problem is you have the
FSB set to 100 Mhz instead of 133Mhz.

"Logan" wrote in message
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Rubbie wrote:
Now I know this might not be directly related to this group, still i'm
gonna try my luck in here.

I got a MB from a friend of mine, ECS K7s5a (ver 3.1). I installed an amd
xp2200+. Booted the system and noticed that the cpu is running @ 1350
mhz. So i tried to flash the MB so it would recognize the cpu correctly.
I used the tools provided by ECS. But when I tried to flash the MB, the
programm told me the MB doesn't support flashing.
Does anyone have a solution to this? The BIOS used is Amibios. I also
tried their flash utility, and it tells me the same thing: MB does not
support flashing.

What to do?

Any help is appreciated,

Regards Rubbie
The MB is fine and is doing exactly what it is supposed to. The reason
that you can not flash the mb is that there is a jumper on it to prevent
exactly what you are trying to do. You need to find and remove the jumper
to flash the BIOS. I believe your real problem is you have the FSB set to
100 Mhz instead of 133Mhz.

Yeah I already figured out the FSB part . I thought that, if it ain't set
too 100 FSB by jumpers, it is automatically set to use 133 FSB.

The flashing problem was solved by using an older version of the flashing
program (Since the newer versions didn't support the EEPROM)

I forgot to mention in my original post that, there was no option in BIOS
nor was there a jumper that could be switched to allow BIOS overwriting to
allowed.

Anyway, I fixed the problems I had and everything is running fine now.

Thanks for your efforts everyone

Regards Rubbie