Cpu steppings in bios
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 1:53 am
I have an Acer V66XA board with an Acer/IBM bios. This is a PII i440BX board that Acer and IBM sold only with PII 350/400/450 cpus. Acer put no other steppings into the initial part of the bios. The board will boot, then stop when it sees a different PII cpu, until you press <enter> to continue. It will then continue to boot and operate properly. Acer Europe has a batch file for the steppings on their website. Its origin may be Intel.
Does anyone know how this could be run to get this into the bios, or into the boot block?
Would one edit the bios file with this and then flash the bios with the edited file? (I have next to no DOS expertise, beyond fdisk and format.)
Does anyone know how this could be run to get this into the bios, or into the boot block?
Would one edit the bios file with this and then flash the bios with the edited file? (I have next to no DOS expertise, beyond fdisk and format.)