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Old January 24th, 2004, 04:39 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Flashing Compaq Motherboards?

I noticed that the BIOS that comes with Compaqs have no overclocking options. I think I heard that there's a third-party BIOS available for the K7S5A that you can use so to open up options for overclocking. Is there something like this available for Compaq motherboards?
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http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/k7s5a.htm
I would suggest looking around google as well for info about it, if you can get away with switching to a normal bios, looks like ami is the original one, then it would be nice, however it doesn't quite always work especially if you have a propriatary motherboard that is differen't from the retail board.
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you need to do some research. look at the motherboard and see if you can find out who made it.
I have flashed a compaq to a non compac bios. even after the flash not all options would work, but it did fix the problem it was having.
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Thanks for the replies. As soon as I can get hard drives for them, I'll run AIDA32 or something to find out what mobo they are.
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