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WOHOOOOOOOOOOO it works!!!! cheers for the flash Nick!! Board now revied!! Working like a charm!
Lucky I tested with my current athlon, cos' I'd put the Heatsink on the wrong way and only 2/3rds of the chip were in contact!!
A double thanks!!!

Thanks to you and your brother!! I'll buy you both a drink if i'm up that way!
What program did he put on the chip, is it the 830CF bios program?? Just asking in case I need to do anything else apart from shove it in my motherboard, and buy a processor.
Thanks again.

Hi, any news on the bloody bios chip?? That motherboard has caused me and so many others (local computer repair companies) so much bloody trouble! Maybe it should be locked away where it can't cost anyone any more money!

Not at all cheers mate!

Hows the chip looking, has it flashed ok??

I had the same chipset as you do, mine was in a Jetway 830CF From past experience of this chipset (2 of my mates also have this chipset) is that I doesn't like modern cards without a bios flash. I was lukcy, there was a boot from AGP card option in my bios, bu the other weren't the setting did nothi...

I had a similar problem, flashed the bios with a downloaded file, which was too small, when I re-flashed the machine crashed and bobs your uncle, new motherboard for me"!

Cheers mate, I'll stick it int he post 2nite.

See my thread (830cf) i had a similar problem to you!

I think the flash is the only option. It'll be a bugger to swap my processor etc... over to test it again. Don;t wanna end up wasting more of my kit!
I'm based in Cornwall, UK do you know of anyone who could/would flash my chip for me? Would pay between 5-10 quid if I needed to!

I don't think it scans the floppy when it boots - I can't remember tho, was so long ago. Have read FAQ #9 have no ISA cards (no ISA slots on my mobo either) doesn't look astho there is muh hope! My brother reckons the bios half runs - scans processor, then gets half way through RAM then runs out of ...

About a month ago, I tried to flash my bios to the latest version using teh Jetway bios flash utility (windows based) The file size was too small (161kb instead of 250 i think) which wrote to the bios on the second attempt, however it stated the file size was too small. I then re-flashed the bios wi...