Is the Asus A7M 266 compatible with the Athlon XP?

helldriver · Post by **helldriver** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 4:50 am

I have recommend a friend this board. He buyed an Athlon 1800XP. But this set up seems not to be functional.
Is it possible to run a Athlon1800XP on the Asus A7M 266?
Unless this set up shouldn´t work, what can I do? Could I recommend a BIOS update for this board?
Thanks for any help
Stefan

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 5:54 am

it works great, but as always it needs to be set up perfect to work 100%, latest bios (1006) is a basic requirement.

topaz
http://www.topazcomputers.co.uk

On 2002-03-15 04:50, helldriver wrote:
I have recommend a friend this board. He buyed an Athlon 1800XP. But this set up seems not to be functional.
Is it possible to run a Athlon1800XP on the Asus A7M 266?
Unless this set up shouldn´t work, what can I do? Could I recommend a BIOS update for this board?
Thanks for any help
Stefan

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 10:04 am

A7M266 won't boot with an XP processor <b>unless it has the latest BIOS.</b> I use a cheap Duron processor for this. Yes, kind of inconvenient, see if you can borrow a non-XP AMD processor to flash the BIOS, then install the XP processor.

helldriver · Post by **helldriver** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 1:33 pm

Thanks guys,
for your immidiate help.

Stefan

Sunshine · Post by **Sunshine** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 2:05 am

Although I use the A7m266 very sucessfully whith lots of TW reverbs, I get the impression that the performance of the "761" based boards became weaker.... Lately I hear of problems whith the "761" chipset which are realated to Pci bandwidth and general compatibility. Is it possible there´s something like a new revision that causes these problems?? Please don´t anyone get me wrong, I´m a real "761" fan!

Regards,
Sunshine