I have an Abit KT7A MOBO with no RAID.

I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz Thunderbird Processor, the 100 MHz FSB (200 MHz double data rate) version.

At the moment I can only SET up the BIOS for 100/33 MHz at 12x "above" that says I have 1300. I expected to see 1400.

Like this, however, the system does boot up and function OK.

(In the BIOS configuration there is a 10.5x setting for the 133 MHz FSB version of this 1.4 GHz processor but this is not the one I have)

I am hoping that there is a BIOS upgrade that will make 14x available so that I can get this processor running at full speed.


I have downloaded what looks to be the latest KT7A BIOS update file, kt7a9.exe from here:

http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/bios/kt7.htm

I have downloaded AWDFLASH from here:

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/downl...CREEN=AWDFLASH


I have printed out the instructions from here:

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/guide.php

I have made a bootable DOS 6.2 floppy and put the BIOS flashing files on it but when I extracted the contents of kt7a9.exe there was an awardflash.exe in the ARCHIVE. Should I use this one or the later, bigger on I downloaded separately?

Finally if I go ahead and flash my BIOS will I be able to run my 100 MHz FSB 1.4 GHz Athlon Processor at the full 1400 MHz CPU speed?

Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. This is for the record:

The BIOS string is the POST is: 11/07/2001-8363-686B-6A6LMA19C-64 and I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that the 64 on the end signifies the latest one available.

To make matters better I think the CPU speed is OK too.

Being a Ubuntu Linux rookie (but having used the Grand Daddy UNIX for a good part of my working life) I went searching for something to tell me, what would be simple in XP, the CPU speed and it turned out to be this at the Command Prompt in a Terminal Window:

grep cpu /proc/cpuinfo

with the result:

cpu family : 6
cpu MHz : 1400.157
cpuid level : 1

So I don't have to risk a BIOS flash but I have to say that having done a number I have never had one fail from a bootable floppy disk. My only disaster was one from within Windows!

Also it would appear that despite the odd way the BIOS depicts its 100 MHz for the higher speeds MULTIPLIERS that my 1.4GHz processor is running at its rated speed! Quote from: LesD on April 30, 2008, 10:18:23 AM

This is for the record:

The BIOS string is the POST is: 11/07/2001-8363-686B-6A6LMA19C-64 and I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that the 64 on the end signifies the latest one available.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi

http://open.iliad.fr/~clecourt/wmacpi/

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...cpi-1430.shtml