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Reply 20 of 24, by bloodem

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Good point! Now that you mentioned it, I just realize that, in fact, I had downloaded w6163v27.exe a few weeks before getting my hands on the board.
However, I totally forgot about it and I just went with the MSI website download once I started playing with it.
Will try it and get back to you.

1 x PLCC-68 / 2 x PGA132 / 5 x Skt 3 / 9 x Skt 7 / 12 x SS7 / 1 x Skt 8 / 14 x Slot 1 / 5 x Slot A
5 x Skt 370 / 8 x Skt A / 2 x Skt 478 / 2 x Skt 754 / 3 x Skt 939 / 7 x LGA775 / 1 x LGA1155
Current PC: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Backup PC: Core i7 7700k

Reply 21 of 24, by bloodem

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So, yeah, just flashed it and the FSB frequency set in the BIOS now matches the actual FSB frequency. Other than that... things look the same: did a few tests, it's stable as before.
Thanks for the heads up!

1 x PLCC-68 / 2 x PGA132 / 5 x Skt 3 / 9 x Skt 7 / 12 x SS7 / 1 x Skt 8 / 14 x Slot 1 / 5 x Slot A
5 x Skt 370 / 8 x Skt A / 2 x Skt 478 / 2 x Skt 754 / 3 x Skt 939 / 7 x LGA775 / 1 x LGA1155
Current PC: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Backup PC: Core i7 7700k

Reply 22 of 24, by maxtherabbit

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this is a BX board right? make sure your AGP card is stable at 88MHz...

Reply 23 of 24, by bloodem

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It is stable (and I have four other 440BX boards which are all stable at 133 MHz FSB with 89MHz AGP, when using nVidia cards).
I'm using GeForce 3 Ti 200 / GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on these boards (a "bit" overpowered, I know). But I also tested cards like GeForce 2 GTS / GeForce 2 Ti and didn't see any instability.

1 x PLCC-68 / 2 x PGA132 / 5 x Skt 3 / 9 x Skt 7 / 12 x SS7 / 1 x Skt 8 / 14 x Slot 1 / 5 x Slot A
5 x Skt 370 / 8 x Skt A / 2 x Skt 478 / 2 x Skt 754 / 3 x Skt 939 / 7 x LGA775 / 1 x LGA1155
Current PC: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Backup PC: Core i7 7700k

Reply 24 of 24, by maxtherabbit

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ahh yeah the Nvidia cards handle 88MHz AGP like a champ, ATI no so much