Bancho wrote:WOW, thank you for that great post. I've been looking for bios files for this board for a few hours without much luck. That site you posted looks like just what i need! I never had experience with the 8KTA+ in the past as i had a Abit KT7-Raid with a 1.1ghz Thunderbird which i unlocked with some conductive paint, which was a lot more nerve wracking back then as a 18 year old with an expensive CPU 🤣. I'll get the bios flashed and have another go with the 133mhz option.
Thanks
Mine's using an A mobile AthlonXP Barton chip in it which -I THINK- only does like 10x or 11x multiplier with this motherboard (A limitation of the board). But it does do 266 FSB (133 Mhz setting), and I have it slightly overclocked in bios to 300 FSB (which would be 150), and it runs the chip at 1.8 ghz just happily stable. It's my MS-DOS VESA Gaming machine. It even has bios settings for the indiviual ram timings for SDRAM, I think mine runs it at 2-3-3 @ 150 mhz.
And yep no problem... I knew right where to go with it because I had to go through the same steps to find the bios for mine. Basically figure out what the EpoX website used to be, and then plug it in to archive.org and then spawn the website once each year and look at "Models -> Motherboard" until you see the 8KTA+ listed.. back-stepping years until it shows up. Then once you find it, go to the support section to get the resulting page I came up with, which had the file names for the bios's, then just copy-paste in to google and find today-current websites with some copies of em (hopefully).
That's how I found it.. describing it so others can know how to find things in the future.
Remember to save your current bios as well during flashing.