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Offline FPF-Paladin

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Need help finding a bios driver...
« on: January 19, 2010, 09:03:10 am »
Hey guys, hoping someone out there might be able to help.

My computer has become very unstable.  I've fresh formatted/reinstalled everything as I'd thought I'd just left things going too long (OS bloat etc) but to no effect.  Blasted thing crashes even on startup... a weird symptom is that before I reformatted, a lot of my games were actually very stable.  Just the desktop and EI seemed to bring it down every 5-15 minutes or so.  This is pretty much the last thing I can think of after doing all sorts of hardware checks outside of getting another computer or paying someone to check all my components... but I haven't been able to find an updated bios.

SPM micro
P4M-800
Via P4M800 chipset

Seems there are links when I search but they all lead to pay to download sites now(??) and my search results are very limited.  Does anyone know of any good driver sites?
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Re: Need help finding a bios driver...
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2010, 03:28:11 pm »
OK, you're looking for P4M800 drivers for which OS(s)?

I assume not the bios itself.

I did a quick search and it seems as though SPM micro does not exist any longer (at least online)?

Searching on just "P4M-800" leads one to the VIA Taiwan site which I trust and should not charge for windows drivers.

Of course original manufacturer maintained drivers and bios images are preferable, but SPM Micro is a "fly-by-night" manufacturer it seems. So VIA is all you got (from what I can tell in two google searches).

http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

Which ultimately leads here:
http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VIA_HyperionPro_V524A.zip
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VIA Hyperion Pro Driver Package

OS supported:
Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Vista 32-Bit, Windows Vista 64-Bit, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-Bit, Windows ME, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows NT

Notes:
Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A, AGP V4.60A, V-RAID V5.80F and RAID Tools v5.85, VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A.

VIA Hyperion Pro drivers are suitable for ANY VIA chipset - but they are particularly recommended for KT4## series, P4X4## series and newer, for example:
K7 chipsets: KT400, KT400A, KT600, KT880, KM400, KN400
K8 chipsets: K8T800, K8T800Pro, K8M800, K8M890, K8N800, K8N890, K8T890, K8T890Pro, K8T900
P4 chipsets: P4X400, P4X400A, PT800, PT880, PM800, PN800, PM880, PN880, PT880Pro, PT894, P4M800/Pro/CE, P4M900, PT890
C Series Chipsets: CN700, CN400, CLE266, CX700,CX700M, CX700M2, CN800, CN896
V Series Chipsets: VN800, VN896, VX700, VX800, VX800UT, VX820, VX820UT, VX855


(unless you know what mainboard components to specify earlier in the driver selection process)

Is this a laptop or a desktop?
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Re: Need help finding a bios driver...
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 09:27:03 pm »
Win XP, desktop.  Yeah it's the bios flash for the motherboard I'm looking for.

I'm led to believe the motherboard may be dying... seen other reports from this type.  My memory and other components passed tests.
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Re: Need help finding a bios driver...
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2010, 04:07:53 am »
Oh it is the bios itself you are looking for, not the drivers...

No sign of SPM Micro anywhere... I'd look at the mainboard and identify the bios chip, is it Phoenix, AMI... or what? And confirm the version at bios boot... most of them have a keystroke to stop at version display... Then go to the manufacturers site and read up on it. Or a llitte research may turn up what bios' are used with that VIA chipset.
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Re: Need help finding a bios driver...
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2010, 01:27:55 pm »
No worries, I found the right one and updated it.

Unfortunately it's still doing the weirdness... I'm guessing my PSU is dying now.  Oh well :)  Time to see what Halifax/Dartmouth has for shops...
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Re: Need help finding a bios driver...
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2010, 06:04:23 pm »
http://www.greenlyph.com
http://www.k-pcltee.com
http://www.robotnik.com
It seems the guys that were on Arglye by the old Taz are gone now... along with Taz....  :(

I'd try greenlyph first these days. Good shop generally.
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