BIOS Updates forum

:? Im curious. If I take my current board with the bios removed from the board and hook a volmeter up to A17 on the socket, I should get a 5V signal back when I apply power to this AT power suppy system since the VCC is 5V, correct? In turn, this would mean my board could infact address the full 256...

I just looked up the P2B BIOS on asus web site and noticed that in fact your BIOS is a 256k or 2M bios. My P5A board contains a _128k_ or 1M chip. This is what Im worried about. Can a 1M board do or address the full 2M or 256k of the 2M BIOS in the socket of a 1M board. What I need is a page that ha...

Thanks :!: I am glad to hear that it is possible. What I wasnt sure was if there were issues with the 2M chips on my 1M P5A board. Again, Ive done lots of reading and nothing really mentions this so I was leary. Didnt want to mess up my P5A board as well. Damn A7A died with a runtime error when I fo...

I have a dead A7A266. The BIOS flash failed with a run-time error during upgrade. Anyways, I need to try get this board back up and running. I was considering a hotswap with my ASUS P5A-B board, but my P5A BIOS is a 5v winbond w29ee10 chip. This is a 1M or 128k chip correct? (Still learning). Would ...