Kr7a - almost new bios (6/7/2002)

[dumass]

They put a bios update out, on 6 july, but still, thought id tell everyone as quite afew people have abit boards :)

http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/download_content.jsp?pTITLE=KR7A-133+%2F+KR7A-133R+%28ATA133%29&#

build: 9N

up from the old 7G

I havent installed it yet (backing up all my stuff cuzz it says it might corupt raid arrays) backing up all my crap :)

Hopefully get some better RAID preformance with the update :)

Post your findings..

[Humantuckshop]

I haven't tried the July BIOS yet, but the '7G' BIOS was a dirty old pig. I got CMOS checksum errors and random reboots, etc... So I just went back to the original BIOS.

I'll give the latest one a go tho. I'll post my 'findings' later.... :D

[Humantuckshop]

OK, so I downloaded the July BIOS last night - I finally got it from www.biosmods.com as the Abit website is a little dodgy, and what can I say about it?

Well, unless you are planning on upgrading your CPU to a Thoroughbred then don't bother flashing your BIOS. Yes, it is stable (so far) but it decreases performance in 3DMark2K1SE - I get 150 less marks with everything @ stock. And the SiSoft Sandra memory bench test result was the same as the Original BIOS. I plan on flashing back to the original BIOS later.


So to recap: Unless you are upgrading to a TBred, don't bother flashing your BIOS.

[dumass]

Ill still flash it as its updating the RAID bios from 2.01 to v2.31

hopefully that will run bit faster!