Reply 40 of 46, by evasive
PARKE wrote on 2020-05-26, 15:20:@evasive One question, maybe a silly one but I'm trying to improve my understanding here. His BIOS chip has a sticker that says […]
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One question, maybe a silly one but I'm trying to improve my understanding here.
His BIOS chip has a sticker that says [02/25/99] which is 8 months before the Coppermine was launched.
If he needs to upgrade his BIOS for Coppermine support (if that is at all possible) should he not begin with a Katmai cpu anyway ?
Good question how much trouble that would give. Sometimes a board will boot and just show a wrong model for the CPU, yet you can flash the bios to a revision that officially supports that CPU.
So the big question is, what revision is currently flashed in that chip. We know the original is feb 25 1999, but was it ever updated already?
For that you'd need another board with the same eeprom socket or a network card or an USB eeprom reader.