Did you update the BIOS to latest?
If not, why not?
Hint: I do this all the time and never lost a board. Must be some thousands by now...
Bob
okay, here's my puzzlement:
I had a soyo 6BA+III mobo sitting around, had a bad EIDE socket. I saw another 6BA+III board on ebay with a bad bios flash, so i bought it cheap. it says 6BA+III on the board, altho it looks somewhat different . . . anyway, I put my old, good 6BA+III BIOS chip in the newly purchased board and it booted up, but oh man, is it slow -- like an LX board. takes a good 5-8 seconds to check the 64 KB of memory. Also a 650 mhz slot one CPU is only seen as 400 mhz. (this board is rated for 850 mhz)
so, is this an LX board incorrectly (or fraudulently) marked as the 6BA+III ? or is the swapped BIOS chip causing this speed limitation somehow?
was only 3 bucks on ebay-- fj

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