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swell22 · September 16th, 2004, 04:36 PM

just got a new amd 3500+ and was wondering what temp they are supposed to run at. also where do you find the temp, in the bios? havent yet put computer together yet but was just wondering...also got an msi board and heard it reports wrong temps. what is flashing the bios and how do you do it?

TechKnickle · September 16th, 2004, 04:38 PM

Temp can be found in Bios usually under something like PC/Health Status. You can also download Motherboard monitor 5 to keep track of temps.

Average idle temp (ideally) is somewhere around 50C I think, where 70C is critical temp for the Athlon 64s.

ArcticFox · September 16th, 2004, 04:40 PM

What mobo do you have? BIOS? You should find the temps under like "system health" or "system monitor" or the like.

Anything over 55c is a big red flag, some will say 60 but I freak when I go over 50.

swell22 · September 16th, 2004, 05:28 PM

my mobo...i heard it reports wrong temps so i wanted to know how to flash the bios...i dont know what that means

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...ion=13-130-468

TechKnickle · September 16th, 2004, 05:39 PM

I wouldn't recommend flashing your BIOS if you have never seen it done before, as it can be a truamatic experience for newbies (no offense

). Basically flashing a BIOS usually consists of booting off of a floppy disk and entering some commands to terminate your old BIOS and install your new one. Flashing a BIOS can be done improperly though and it is nearly impossible to recover after an improper flash.

ArcticFox · September 17th, 2004, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TechKnickle

I wouldn't recommend flashing your BIOS if you have never seen it done before, as it can be a truamatic experience for newbies (no offense

). Basically flashing a BIOS usually consists of booting off of a floppy disk and entering some commands to terminate your old BIOS and install your new one. Flashing a BIOS can be done improperly though and it is nearly impossible to recover after an improper flash.

Huh? You shouldn't have to enter any commands at all. All the BIOS' I flashed just give you a text menu or whatnot, no DOS or anything needed. Still need a boot floppy though.

HeadBand · September 17th, 2004, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by TechKnickle

I wouldn't recommend flashing your BIOS if you have never seen it done before, as it can be a truamatic experience for newbies (no offense

). Basically flashing a BIOS usually consists of booting off of a floppy disk and entering some commands to terminate your old BIOS and install your new one. Flashing a BIOS can be done improperly though and it is nearly impossible to recover after an improper flash.

the only time you should flash a bios is when needed not just for fun but in this case the tempature sensor is bad so he needs to flash it to make it read correctly...hey you have to start somewhere

flashing the biso is accaully not that difficult but it is replacing the firmware of your mobo so if you were too loose power in the process your mobo would be bad because it has corrupt firmware so basically don't do it when its storming, make sure the cables are tight and not going to come loose and by all means don't accidently kick the surge protector, so if you do that and follow the instructions on the manufacturers site and make sure you have the correct version from there you should not have any troubble

TechKnickle · September 17th, 2004, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ArcticFox

Huh? You shouldn't have to enter any commands at all. All the BIOS' I flashed just give you a text menu or whatnot, no DOS or anything needed. Still need a boot floppy though.

What are you talking about? I just flashed my BIOS and I had to boot to an A:\> prompt and use dos commands to navigate to my bios and then execute it with the proper switch.

It isn't that hard to flash a BIOS, but there are precautions that need to be taken when flashing such as:

1)BIOS version
2)Motherboard version (to get right BIOS)

EDIT: I didnt mean those words to be harsh, but come on, you need to know a little bit of your way around in dos to get the upgrade to work

LittleKing · September 20th, 2004, 12:25 PM

Just so this isn't a thread crap, I'll give my $.02. There are several programs out there that monitor CPU temps, motherboard monitor is one of them. It has stopped being developed and will go out of date fairly quickly, but it should still be pretty good.

Also, flashing a BIOS isn't that difficult. When you look for a new BIOS you will need to know what board it is, that is what make and model number it is. When you download the new BIOS there should be instructions on what you need to do, follow them and you should be fine.

BTW TechKnickle, not all BIOS flashing requires a DOS prompt. ASUS (there might be others) now have a program where you flash their BIOS from windows. Makes it pretty much painless, it is even suppose to download the newest BIOS for you, but in my case it didn't seem to work (it just said there was not a new BIOS when I knew there was a new one). However, I just download the correct BIOS from their site opened the program and it flashed the BIOS. Quick reboot and finished. No hassle no command line. Simple

LK