EVGA 750i FTW bios

[joebighair]

anyone got a link to some older bios for this mobo most links I found for bios don't list evga as a mobo maker, also a link to a iso burning program the one bios I found said i need to burn it to a disk with a program any help would be great thanks

[joebighair]

OK I got the board installed and it seam fine with the current bios so on to the next problem which I am sure I know the answer but going to ask any way LOL ok so I looked and looked for the drivers on this board and for the driver for the 650i and every where i found it they where the same driver so the question is should i have installed the board with the same driver what I did was switch the boards and that is it and it wouldn't boot went to bios and load optimal settings and did the configure reset thing/option hit save when it rebooted went in to bios and unchecked it saved again and it is running fine parsed occt for 4 hours shut it down let it cool using as5 and it says you need to start and stop the computer but you all know that anyway beamed up the voltages and fsb and it passed Intel burn test 15 times with a max temp of 52c there is no yellow flags in the device manager but when ever i restart the computer it finds some hardware that it wants to install it is some thing to do with the audio any way so i stuck in the driver cd that came with the mobo and installed the drivers from it but like a dumb azz I didn't uninstall the old driver so all seem to work fine folded on it over night and ran fine temps low but it still wants to load the hd audio so to fix the problem what should I do
yea thats what I figured do a fresh install right LOL if by chance you have anothr answer please post it I can do the fresh install not a big deal other then the time it takes I hate going though all the updates as the copy of xp I have is the first one with out any sp so I have to go though all then and then install al the games ho hum. As you can tell I am bored and posting here in hopes of something new to try other then just doing the fresh install which would be done by now if I would have just did it LOL well

[joebighair]

Well found the bios I wanted and installed it went fine and now the bios and OS can tell what CPU I have , decided to get rid of the old xp OS that I was using for mike's computer and upgraded him to windows 7 32 bit. I really like 7 there was no need to install anything as wnidows7 had everything. Should have done it when I upgraded mine as having them in the same network/home group is nice no more need to transfer files with a flash drive. Tied to oc the Q9400 on the evga 750i FTW and was able to get to 3.2 even, but anything above and the system would freeze up 15 seconds in to running the Intel burn test. did some reading on the Evga forums and there is much talk about the gtlref lanes when trying to oc a quad core, but from what I read if I take the time to find the right settings I should be able to get to 3.6-3.8 not sure I want to go that high for 24/7 but it would be nice to get there and then back down LOL next project I think will be to switch the NB/SB heat sinks. The ones on it look cool but I don't think they work who ever designed them went with looks over function, the heat pipe is in the middle of the heat sink fins it is about a half inch from touching the NB chip. Where it is makes no cents what so ever. If I would have paid more then 40 bucks for this board I would have been pissed but I only paid 40 so I will invest in some time modding and cooling it LOL. I may even go water but as it sits the CPU temps are great with the ac 7 pro I think I got a good one as anything I attach it to stays way cool it out did the noctuna NH-C12P and the S1284 Xigmatek right now at 3.2Ghz and volts set to 1.36 in CPU-z temps are at 36-27-25-28c while running two gpu and one system try client granted it is cold in the computer room today temps in the room are 68f, so for a cheap cooler this thing rocks but the NB temps are reading 88c to 90c which sound high to me but the folks on evga forum so there fine that high but if thats fine then getting then down to 60 70 would be better LOL well anyone with any tips on OCing this board and CPU just chime in with your tips type to you all later

[Patriot]

yes there are voltages other than vcore you need to boost when overclocking a quad... unfortunately I cannot pop into my bios to tell you what those are... I can thursday or friday maybe...