A7N8X-E Deluxe as an alternative for socket 462
Hi all
I wasn't lucky with Abit for sA benchmarking - they never survived more than a few days (had several ones, ones I remember were fully modded from moose83 and stock one from Ananerbe). I also had no luck with Epox boards. Many other boards either don't have mounting holes near socket or miss good/custom bioses. The board that was almost flawless for me is Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe - it has a bunch of modded bioses (thanks Scotty!) and I never had bios corruption issues with it. But i
Yes, it seems NVMM from AMI bios is incompatible with Award, since all 3 (4.08, 4.62 and 4.85) didn't POST on NF7 and for you.
But I have the same problem with the rest which are working with failsafe and perhaps something like 166MHz FSB, but not with 200+. Will have to try with another bios or exchange the ROMSIP and see if there's a difference. While it works 260+ with NVDAMC 3.19, I could not POST at 200+ with NVMM - everything else equal. NF7 is an older board though.
Maybe boot a