ooztuncer Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 I'm gonna flash my bios to 704-2BTA and change my video card. Not at the same time, to be on the safe side (control vice) I know the steps for flashing - using flashxpress and after that: After the BIOS flash: every time you flash to a new bios, it is very important to clear the old BIOS settings out this way: - Once the BIOS flash has finished turn the PC off. - Remove the computer's power cable or the motherboard's ATX power block. - Pull CMOS battery. - Clear the CMOS using the JBAT jumper. Leave it there for 10 minutes. - Then put the CMOS jumper back to the save position - Replace battery - When you Power the PC enter the BIOS. - Load optimized defaults. - Save and exit. - Boot back to bios and now you can change settings to your liking. It is very important that you clear the previous CMOS RELOADED SETTINGS. I think which one I'm going to change first doesn't matter(vga or flashing) however should I clear cmos after I change my video card? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Might be something to consider if you had overvolted or upped the bus speed of your original card in BIOS but is normally not necessary otherwise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooztuncer Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Might be something to consider if you had overvolted or upped the bus speed of your original card in BIOS but is normally not necessary otherwise. Thanks for the reply. I'm going to bring both my vga and bios to default settings before going further. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooztuncer Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Well, flashed succesfully!! first time anxiety is over now... thanks, especially to sharp! Bios date seems 07-06-2005, is this correct for 704-2BTA version? Now vga, wish me luck! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooztuncer Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 Well, everything went almost perfect except couple of crashes while testing the overclocking capability of gto2. I couldn't reach X850XT levels but really close! 3dmark05 increased from 4058 to 5929! not bad I think... http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1288923 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rldolph79 Posted October 6, 2005 Posted October 6, 2005 3dmark05 increased from 4058 to 5929! not bad I think... Yep, right about where it should be... With everything at stock, I get right about 6000. 6029 is the best I've gotten. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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