hi..can anyone help with problem with pcchips m810lmr..just trying to upgrade the cpu which is a amd duron 850..reading a few different reviews has just confused the situation...some reviews suggest i can go to amd athlon or even xp .in the manual it says upto duron 1.3ghz...what is maximum processor i can go to?I am not sure what version the board is... .it was bought in 2000 (serial no. 560ie11807122)..on the board installation disk it says v7.79b..but nothing on the box... i lost the manual so am unsure...any help would be appreciated...thanks
Whether you can go to Athlons depend on what ver no. your mobo is. E.g. a ver 1 mobo may not support chips over 1.3GHz but a later ver 2 one might support athlons. If you're not sure which mobo you have then open your case and it should be printed somewhere on the board. Usually in between the PCI slots.
The factor here would be the BIOS version. You *should* be able to put in any 200 or 266MHz FSB Socket A CPU out there. The thing is, there are a few different CPU cores, and the BIOS needs to have coding in order to recognize and in some cases, boot, with the newer CPU in it. I didn't have a lot of luck finding the 810lmr on PC Chips website, so I can't say for sure. The other 810 series boards seem to support Socket A CPU's in the range I specified above, but I'd wager you'd need a BIOS update first.
thanks for quick reply...will try both options...current bios is ami...where is best site for bios upgrade and would i have to pay for it?
AMI is the company that makes the BIOS ROM program. PC Chips used that one for the 810lmr. AMI, at least to my knowledge, does not have the BIOS flash tool or BIOS for download. Additionally, PC Chips may have very likely changed and/or added a few things specific to that motherboard. I've found the BIOS update for the 810L, but I'm having a helluva time trying to find the 810LMR.
thanks for that .....looks like i'll be better of just binin board and starting again..too many problems finding right bios and flash...
If you want to stay with socket A and stay cheap, see if you can find the ECS N2U400-A...that's a great board for cheap. Another good option in Socket A land is the MSI KT6V or KT4VA boards. If you want to jump to the Athlon 64 platform, it's gonna run you a bit more because it's newer technology.
want to stay with socket a but with a board thats upgradeable, what is ecs k7s5a like?..i notice it has slots for 2 different types of ram...so can upgrade to ddr later...also are there any other socket a board that have this facility....cheers
I'm not 100% sure, but you might look at ASrock if you must have that feature. The K7S5A is kinda long in the tooth, and really isn't that much of an upgrade from what you have. You'll still be limited to Socket A CPU's running 200MHz and 266MHz FSB's. If you want to get the maximum upgrade potential for socket A, you might want to consider some other motherboards. For less than $100, you can get the ECS N2U400-A ($42.75) and some GeiL PC3200 ($52.00) 512MB stick, according to Newegg.
ecs l7s7a2 was surprisingly a good board for me. if on a budget, I would recommend it. doubt you can find one though, their pretty old. The MSI KT6V's I had problems with. Got two different boards and they both developed video rendering issues. Cheap board I guess.
