Balefire Posted September 12, 2005 Posted September 12, 2005 I recently downloaded the Age of Empires 3 demo and an error occurred during installation, something about my processor doesn't support advanced SSE instruction. So I went into the bios settings and sure enough the SSE instructions were disabled. So I enabled it, saved, and tried getting back into windows. Unfortunately, after the windows loading screen I get a BSOD, and the cycle repeats. I disabled the SSE and everything went back to normal, but alas, I can't play Age of Empires 3. My processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice and I'm positive it has support for SSE and SSE2. So my question is...Is it the motherboard that doesn't have support? I have a dfi lanparty ut nf4-d. I still haven't updated the bios since i bought it (i'm a little scared to mess with that stuff). If i update the bios will that solve the problem? Thanks and any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilCloudStrife Posted September 13, 2005 Posted September 13, 2005 i would update the bios on it first and formost. make sure you have NO memtest errors before you do it though because that could cause major problems when updating the bios. i dont see why you should have any problem enabling the SSE(2)(3) instructions... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony420 Posted September 13, 2005 Posted September 13, 2005 I wouldn't bother with memtest. Just make sure you load optimized defaults then flash to the 704-2BTA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynomutt Posted September 13, 2005 Posted September 13, 2005 yes your Venice has support for SSE,SSE2 AND SSE3 instructions and the latest BIOS for these boards contains official support for the Venice A64's, the Bios is most likley the problem you can get 623-3 from DFI's official site DFI Official Downloads Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lb11 Posted September 13, 2005 Posted September 13, 2005 The earlier bios' had problems with venice cores and sse so you need to update it. winchester and other cores did not have this problem afaik Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balefire Posted September 13, 2005 Posted September 13, 2005 Hey guys thanks a lot. I guess I'll have to flash the bios. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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