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I'm having a hard time trying to upgrade my computer.
I bought a Powerleap "PL-iP3/T" upgrade kit, and a 1200Mhz cpu.
However, when I installed the new cpu the screen went blank.
This problem was mentioned in the manual and the solution was
to flash bios... Tried with asus' "aflash.exe" but got the message:
"flash memory: unknown". So I contacted asus and they suggested
I'd try an older flasher("pflash2.exe"), as aflash might not work with
older ROM's. So I tried with pflash2.exe and got pretty much the
same message .(memory type: unknown). Now I've found out that
my motherboard is a fake one...

I ran "bios agent" and it said:
BIOS ID: <<P2B>>
BIOS DATE: 10/09/98
BIOS Signon: 10/09/98-i440BX-<<P2B>>-00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Super I/O: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
OEM Signon: ASUS P2B ACPI BIOS Revision 1006

I don't know much about bios flashing, except what I've read
on wimsbios the past couple of days, and desperately need some help...

*Is my bios writable/flushable?
*Where do I get a new one if it's not?
(I live in Norway, and can't think of any suppliers...)

Thanks in advance... Leif W. Husdal

Tualatin CPUs work fine with the latest 1014 BETA 003 BIOS. You can try UniFlash.

What he said. But what makes you believe your mobo is a fake?

Soupy, IIRC, you once supplied a nice link about the fake ASUS boards. Still have it somewhere? It had excellent pictures for determining fakes.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=fake+asus ... l=en&meta=

I could have googled on my own...

But, I was much convinced that it was an asus.com link... my mistake, then.

Hehehehe...

There was, at one point, but ever since their website "improvements", I can't find it.

There was also a modification for some of their LX chipset based boards to support power-hungry AGP cards - it disappeared too.

Rainbow wrote:There was also a modification for some of their LX chipset based boards to support power-hungry AGP cards - it disappeared too.

http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/faq034_lx_tntrew.htm

In german but the pictures should be good enough

Yes, the pictures says much.
Also, it can be translated:
·By Google: http://www.google.com/translate_c?langp ... tntrew.htm
·By BabelFish (Altavista): http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... tntrew.htm
Keep in mind that images can not be translated, and software translations can have insues. But the above results are enought suficient to be acepptable.