ASRock K7vm2

[tankard]

What processors with a speed higher than AMD Duron 1300 MHz which is currently in place on my motherboard ASRock K7vm2 can I install to upgrade my PC?

[Marcin]

Next time please try a bit and search in this forum. Here you go :

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5573

http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/show.asp?Model=K7VM2

[tankard]

I replaced Duron1300 with Athlon 2600 AXDA2600DKV3C but when turned on the PC, the monitor was empty only saying "no video signal". I changed FSB to 133 and cleared CMOS on the motherboard, but no any progress. Does it mean that the cpu is dead?

[Marcin]

Propably CPU is dead but befor think thate I would update BIOS and check all once again.

[tankard]

Thank you Marcin for the propmt reply. When running asrflash.exe with option /s (save original BIOS to file), I got a message "Chipset/Flash part is not available. The function will be invalid". Does it mean that I cannot save original BIOS before updating it, or I even cannot update BIOS at all?

[bacterio]

are you using this file??

ftp://download.asrock.com/bios/462/K7VM2(R3)(1.90).zip

in pure dos??

[jd]

This board should support Athlon, Duron, Athlon XP, @max 266FSB no problem.
As for the bios update, are you properly using the "flash files" ? There's is usualy 2 files,and when you start it up,you can choose to save,rewrite,exit..etc... make sure you unpack the files correctly on a floppy disk, then reboot, making sure the boot sequence is floppy first...

I got more info but I'll see how you make out...

..and yes, always choose to save first

JD