bios version mis-reported in windows

hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

"" wrote:
hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to
go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the
correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've
never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

I have the same problem with a GA-K8NS Ultra939 that I upgraded from
F6 to F9 and it still shows F6. Is it a bug of the Gigabyte boards?

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"tlviewer" wrote in message
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hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

It's normal, it's the date of the bios build that you look at. I have F8d
for the GA-K8NXP-9 and it's reporting as August 26th 2005, but CPU-Z reports
it as bios version F5.

"djezirir" wrote in message
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"" wrote:
hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to
go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the
correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've
never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

I have the same problem with a GA-K8NS Ultra939 that I upgraded from
F6 to F9 and it still shows F6. Is it a bug of the Gigabyte boards?

No, it's just Gigabyte don't update the nesscary binary string.

"" wrote:
hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to
go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the
correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've
never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

No the CPU-Z dont make any correct but you can look the bottom of the
screen when you switch on PC that showed that date and BIOS which
usual correct - mine is F5 and the CPUZ showed at F2 so the software
dont make any correct cos it didnt detect any BIOS version by correct,
so that the software seem missing the correct one - you can check the
BIOS version by using @BIOS so that it correct one - dont worry about
it.

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I had the same problem when I flashed my GA-8KNXP with the Q-Flash utility.
One of the options in Q-flash is to enable / disable "Keep DMI Data." I
found that to correctly report the new BIOS information to Windows, you must
choose to Disable this function. Look to see if there is a similar option in
the @Bios utility & re-flash the BIOS with "Keep DMI Data" disabled.


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"" wrote:
hello,

ga-k8n ultra-9

After I installed WinXPsp2 (32bit) I used the @Bios utility to
go from
F3-F6. The machine works fine, with the bios showing the
correct version.
However Apps like CPUZ or SANDRA still show F3. Why? I've
never seen this
before with other boards.

Is there any fix, or should I leave it as is?
tia,
tlviewer

No the CPU-Z dont make any correct but you can look the bottom of the
screen when you switch on PC that showed that date and BIOS which
usual correct - mine is F5 and the CPUZ showed at F2 so the software
dont make any correct cos it didnt detect any BIOS version by correct,
so that the software seem missing the correct one - you can check the
BIOS version by using @BIOS so that it correct one - dont worry about
it.

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