So, I got an athy XP 1700+ for Father's day, and decided to plug it into my Asus A7M266 system. First I flashed the BIOS (I was on 1003, and you must be at or above 1005).
Got that done, rebooted, all seemed well. So, I swapped chips and fired it up. BSOD's and lockups all over the place.
It seems that 1005 inserted a new setting called S2K, which I'd not heard of. For a normal T-bird, this value should be 3, but for an XP chip, it needs to be 1. Even though this BIOS was released specifically to deal with XP chips, the friendly morons at Asus set the default value to 3.
Don't do what HomeLAN did and spend half a day plus a drive format before you figure that out.
Got that done, rebooted, all seemed well. So, I swapped chips and fired it up. BSOD's and lockups all over the place.
It seems that 1005 inserted a new setting called S2K, which I'd not heard of. For a normal T-bird, this value should be 3, but for an XP chip, it needs to be 1. Even though this BIOS was released specifically to deal with XP chips, the friendly morons at Asus set the default value to 3.
Don't do what HomeLAN did and spend half a day plus a drive format before you figure that out.
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