Recent content by Samasam

I didn't do that actually. I'll give that a try and update you shortly. Thanks

It was the newest version on the Foxconn website - the same one you linked. Looking at it now it's detecting that I have an older version of BIOS but doesnt seem to be detecting that there's an updated version available. I tried doing the manual version through the utility but i just seem to get...

I forgot to mention that i tried to use Live Update but it showed as my BIOS being the most up to date version, even though it's not. I came to the conclusion that the program was broken so i gave up with it.

Recently iv'e been struggling with a compatibility issue on my H61-MXL-K. It seems like a fairly common problem that people have with this motherboard when installing a more modern GPU. There is a PCI-E hangup issue where the BIOS will delay for a long period of time when booting when a GPU is...

Great news! The system is up and running. turns out it was a BIOS compatibility issue. I got hold of an i7 920 and the board booted straight up. The BIOS did happen to be quite early, which meant only the i7 920/940 would work with it due to them being the first i7's available at the time...

That’s what I’ve read online too, I’ve seen some i7 920’s for less than £20, so I think I’m going to try get hold of one of them. I think the i7 920/940 is the most ‘compatible’ chip for this board since I believe they don’t require a BIOS update to run. They should run off the earliest BIOS...

Thanks for your responses. To start, buying the Xeon was a mistake on my part, I jumped the gun without doing any research at all. Following that it’s been returned and I’m looking at getting hold of a cheap i7 920, which should be compatible with the BIOS I can’t access the BIOS currently so...

Thanks for your response, this is the kind of stuff i needed to hear. I've not yet had experience with flashing a bios on a motherboard that i can't get to post. Is it as simple as getting the correct files and making a bootable USB file? or am i completely wrong. Again though, i feel like im...

Thanks for the responses guys. Can anyone confirm this is the same with the Xeon x5660?

As stated I tried different GPUs (GTX 670 and GTX 960). The motherboard doesn’t have any video ports so it’d be impossible to get any video output without s graphics card. In other words, I used a GPU Thanks for the feedback though

To start, i try to avoid posting threads, as i'm aware it can be the cancer of some forums, however i'm almost a month in on this small project and iv'e currently had no success.I hoped someone with some experience with this board or X58 builds might be able to give me some advice and point me...

So after days of staring at my laptop screen comparing different components, i finally think i have decided on a build. My budget is £1000 and i was looking for a fairly fast gaming machine. I have built computers previously but iv'e sold my other machines and i'm ready to build a new one. iv'e...