Reply 48120 of 53029, by TrashPanda
ChrisK wrote on 2023-02-21, 11:30:Mine gave me some stupid VGA error beep codes, regardless what VGA card was inserted (AGP, PIC, ISA). Without any VGA card it to […]
TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-21, 10:23:Anyone have much experience with the ASUS K7M ?
Looking at grabbing one for my Athlon 850, the board its on cant do much int he way of overclocking but it seems the K7M can tweak some settings to OC Slot A processors, namely its got a huge range of bus speeds and voltage settings. I wonder if the 850 I have could be pushed to 1Ghz via using a 125Mhz bus speed and a small voltage bump.
AMD-K7850MPR52B A is the model of Athlon being used, one of the Pluto versions IIRC.
Mine gave me some stupid VGA error beep codes, regardless what VGA card was inserted (AGP, PIC, ISA). Without any VGA card it told me RAM was bad.
Either way, it did not want to POST. Had already written off the money for buying it.
What was necessary in the end to bring it back to life was a simple reflash of the BIOS.
Haven't done much more with it other than testing my handful of Athlons for working or not.
But hey, it's an Asus and it supports Thunderbird Slot As. So what can go wrong? 😉
At the least it has more Robust OC features than the board I have currently which is a Biostar M7MKE. ..That said it does have an ISA slot and Universal AGP so its not a bad board just lacking the expanded BIOS feature set of the ASUS board. ACPI also cannot be turned off on this board so can cause issues with Windows 2000, no idea if this ever got patched but might be worth looking into.
Also .. one day I will get me one of them Vapourware 1Ghz Slot A Athlons, till then I gotta fake it.