GA-8ISXT-FS

[mopeygoth]

My best friends bought a Fuitsu Siemens pc a few years back, equipped with a GA-8ISXT-FS motherboard, we upgraded it with a 5900xt over the 9200 in there. 2x256mb ddr333 at cas 2.5 (runnig 2.0) and a p4c 2.66, it is just begging to be oc'ed, but.. my grand headache: there is not way (known to me) to lock the pci/agp frequencies.

I have been looking all over the web to find a bios upgrade, in my frustration I even triend with a gigabyte xx-xxx bios (the popular 865pe board), of course it was no go. I found an windows-auto-bios update program, but it always times out or give me lame errormessages when connecting (or actually not) to the servers.

Does anyone know of a bios upgrade to this board, or where to find one? Currently it is running with the F3 (16-10-2003) or a way to lock the pci/agp?

I am not 100%, but I think it is the model D1625 from the FS website. I tried downloading a bios from there, but all it gives me is a 1044mb .bim file, probrably a floppydisk-image of some kind, dated 23/04/2004 - I didn't look further into that one, since I am not even sure it is the right one.. or how to apply it atm.

This sucks so bad i am almost about to buy him an IS7 myself 🙁

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[Crashman]

I found a place to download the latest BIOS, but it doesn't give you anything. The BIOS chip itself is too small to hold the advanced features of Gigabyte's standard boards, 256k rather than 512k.

You can try overclocking it with software in Windows, and that's all you can try.

BTW, this is a very good OEM board, I've put them in customer PC's, FS unloaded their excess inventory on the world market and you can now get these for as little as $32 USD in most countries.

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[mopeygoth]

hmm.. right, is it even possible to edit and apply it succesfully? Anyways, I'd like the link if i may

Software overclocking (clockgen) is no problem, but the pci/agp lock goes up too, of course. The Gigabyte Easy Tune v4 and v5 worked only as thermal monitoring. The program either crashed or had the overclocking tabs disabled.

But I must agree that it is a great board, It has some very nice features and goes nuts in UV 😀 haha.32$, yeah, i read that other post you did, it's nuts how they spit them out at that price.

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[Crashman]

I don't have the link any longer, but it was a 256k BIOS so it should have loaded. I didn't try it because the board's not here, I was going to patch it up with the tweaks from a similar board until I figured out the new BIOS modules would make the image too large for a 256k chip.

I think they sold leftover boards at a loss.

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[mopeygoth]

hmm.. okay, thanx anyways- I might try to pursuade him to buy a new board at some point 🙁

heh.. perhaps around Unreal3 time he'll be dying for it 😀

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[mopeygoth]

let me know if you stumple upon the file though

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[Crashman]

I found it googling the board. I actually found 3 places to download, and 2 of them had good images. The third was larger and may have included an installation program or something.

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[Crashman]

BTW, it really is a nice board for anyone who's not hard pressed to overclock.

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[mopeygoth]

Indeed.. i'd recommend it too

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