FIC Tech support sent me Windows 2000 bios update for PA-201
Guys you may or may not be interested in this. I was getting ready to install Windows 2000 on my system and I wanted to make sure that my current motherboard would be up to spec so I emailed FIC techsupport and told them that I have the second newest bios available for my board.
Guys you may or may not be interested in this. I was getting ready to install Windows 2000 on my system and I wanted to make sure that my current motherboard would be up to spec so I emailed FIC techsupport and told them that I have the second newest bios available for my board. They just emailed me a bios for the board which I have never seen and is not listed on their site but they said should be installed to make the board fully compliant with win2k. It is dated 11/99. If anyone is interested I will post it on my website for download. The bios version number is JI4323
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I have soemthing saves 438 is that one newer than this one?
The fact that it's dated pre-2000 shows that it will not install ACPI by default. When I had my va-503+ the last bios I had was JE439. Never mentioned on the web site. From memory the date was around spring 2000. I'm sure there was either a JI438 or 439. It never actually fixed anything, and made installing win98 a nightmare, because it installed win98 in ACPI mode. I'm happy to say that because of my little mod on the board to disable the CPU current limiter, allowing 400+Mhz K6-2'S, when a cpu developed a fault, it destroyed the board (current overload), and all my other "spare" k6-2s Now I have an athlon, and am very happy, not one problem.
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System Spec:
Athlon 800
Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4
128Mb SSi PC100
Radeon 64Mb DDR (oem and proud of it)
Hauppauge Wintv Model 406
Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server)
Creative ES1371 PCI64v
Creative SBlive Value
Creative 48mx CDROM
Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW/CD, 4,6,4,24)
Segate SS330630A 30Gb 7200 ATA4
LS120
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System Spec:
Athlon 800
Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4
128Mb SSi PC100
Radeon 64Mb DDR (oem and proud of it)
Hauppauge Wintv Model 406
Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server)
Creative ES1371 PCI64v
Creative SBlive Value
Creative 48mx CDROM
Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW/CD, 4,6,4,24)
Segate SS330630A 30Gb 7200 ATA4
LS120
So am I going to have a crappy time with this, like I did with my K7V a few months ago?
I want Win98 on this. but would like 2000 to work as well.
I want Win98 on this. but would like 2000 to work as well.
IF the board doen't like ACPI, just force the installations not to use it. Then there will be no more than the usual problems! I think win98se uses setup -p-j commands to disable ACPI (not much use when you forget). Not sure though. The 438/9 bios are post 2000 so that will cause ACPI to install by default. The official bios' will not be dated newer than 2000, unless the board revision is fully ACPI compliant.
