Stay away from the new Epox 8RDA bios!!!

dipstick · Mar 15, 2003, 09:09 PM

You have been warned. This is by far the worst bios I have ever used on any board I have ever owned. There are alot of people over at www.amdmb.com with worse luck than me, and I had it bad. I consider myself extremely lucky I was able to flash back. Again this is a simple warning and use this latest 3/5/03 release at your own risk.

Zardon · Mar 15, 2003, 10:19 PM

oh dear, thats always bad to see. I had a bad time with the 5.7 bios on my last MSI KT3 ultra 2 and the 9700 or 9800 pro cards. got "trails" of corrupted pixels when moving windows or playing games, had to flash back to 5.6. Its now a documented problem.

Sometimes installing bios "upgrades" is not a good thing

dipstick · Mar 16, 2003, 04:17 PM

Sorry to hear you've had trouble too. But man, was this a horrible release. I spent over an hour trying to get it stable enough to even flash the damn thing back. I'd start it up and it would reboot instantly, giving me no time to do anything. I had to reset the cmos/remove the battery atleast ten time to get it stable for 30 seconds. I wouldn't really care if I could rma it, but after modding this thing i'd be stuck with nothing. Oh well, thank God that is over. I'm gonna do some research form now on before going off and flashing anything.

Wiz4rd- · Mar 17, 2003, 02:01 AM

I love my 8RDA, the thing about most epox boards is you will find they are generally meant for people with a lot of knowledge in overclocking. There are many bios options for lots of different types of overclocks. For people like me, this board is fantastic, but I admit sometimes epox boards do confuse people.

Also another thing you deffinatley want to check is how your heatsink is seated. This board sucked for me to for the first 3 days. I couldn't even get it stable at stock speeds, and many other people were having the same issue. Make sure your using a good heatsink, with AC3 arctic silver 3 compound, and your not using to much of it. Make sure you just apply enough to cover the core on the CPU. The 1st time i did it, I added to much AC3 and some got onto the CPU, and was shorting things out.

Once I applied the right amount of AC3 and got the cpu properly seated, my temps dropped like 15c and I went from a 2100+ at stock 1733 not even being stable, to 2200mhz perfectly stable.

dipstick · Mar 17, 2003, 03:31 AM

I hear ya, but this latest bios blows big time. I love my Epox too, it's the best board I've ever had, but they can't start releasing crap like this. The 1/29/03 bios is the best to date. I recommend you don't flash to the latest one, and if you already have are you OC'ing at all?

Wiz4rd- · Mar 17, 2003, 04:02 AM

I noticed there was just one released on the 5th of march, I'm using the one that's 1 step older than that 1. Which is teh 1/29 bios, works real good for me so far.

dipstick · Mar 17, 2003, 04:40 AM

Stick with what you're running. If it ain't broke don't fix it

Mar 15, 2003, 09:09 PM	#1
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Stay away from the new Epox 8RDA bios!!! You have been warned. This is by far the worst bios I have ever used on any board I have ever owned. There are alot of people over at www.amdmb.com with worse luck than me, and I had it bad. I consider myself extremely lucky I was able to flash back. Again this is a simple warning and use this latest 3/5/03 release at your own risk.

Mar 15, 2003, 10:19 PM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	oh dear, thats always bad to see. I had a bad time with the 5.7 bios on my last MSI KT3 ultra 2 and the 9700 or 9800 pro cards. got "trails" of corrupted pixels when moving windows or playing games, had to flash back to 5.6. Its now a documented problem. Sometimes installing bios "upgrades" is not a good thing

Mar 16, 2003, 04:17 PM	Thread Starter #3
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Sorry to hear you've had trouble too. But man, was this a horrible release. I spent over an hour trying to get it stable enough to even flash the damn thing back. I'd start it up and it would reboot instantly, giving me no time to do anything. I had to reset the cmos/remove the battery atleast ten time to get it stable for 30 seconds. I wouldn't really care if I could rma it, but after modding this thing i'd be stuck with nothing. Oh well, thank God that is over. I'm gonna do some research form now on before going off and flashing anything.

Mar 17, 2003, 02:01 AM	#4
Wiz4rd- DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 0	I love my 8RDA, the thing about most epox boards is you will find they are generally meant for people with a lot of knowledge in overclocking. There are many bios options for lots of different types of overclocks. For people like me, this board is fantastic, but I admit sometimes epox boards do confuse people. Also another thing you deffinatley want to check is how your heatsink is seated. This board sucked for me to for the first 3 days. I couldn't even get it stable at stock speeds, and many other people were having the same issue. Make sure your using a good heatsink, with AC3 arctic silver 3 compound, and your not using to much of it. Make sure you just apply enough to cover the core on the CPU. The 1st time i did it, I added to much AC3 and some got onto the CPU, and was shorting things out. Once I applied the right amount of AC3 and got the cpu properly seated, my temps dropped like 15c and I went from a 2100+ at stock 1733 not even being stable, to 2200mhz perfectly stable.

Mar 17, 2003, 03:31 AM	Thread Starter #5
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	I hear ya, but this latest bios blows big time. I love my Epox too, it's the best board I've ever had, but they can't start releasing crap like this. The 1/29/03 bios is the best to date. I recommend you don't flash to the latest one, and if you already have are you OC'ing at all?

Mar 17, 2003, 04:02 AM	#6
Wiz4rd- DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 0	I noticed there was just one released on the 5th of march, I'm using the one that's 1 step older than that 1. Which is teh 1/29 bios, works real good for me so far.

Mar 17, 2003, 04:40 AM	Thread Starter #7
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Stick with what you're running. If it ain't broke don't fix it