Can i use stock BIOS of Evga 680i SE SLI for Vista?

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

CDdude55 said:
Thanks a whole lot. Did you update your BIOS or anything to get Vista to run?

Again, you dont need to update the bios to support an OS. :slap:

CDdude55 · Feb 10, 2008

Should upgrade my PC first then install Vista or Vice Versa?

pepsi71ocean · Feb 10, 2008

PC first. IMO

CDdude55 · Feb 10, 2008

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
Again, you dont need to update the bios to support an OS.

Hope your right, But what about Chipset Drivers?

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

CDdude55 said:
Hope you right, But what about Chipset Drivers?

I am right. Someone even backed me up on it. I have never ever seen a BIOS upgrade to support an OS or any other software and you probably never will. Shit, you can throw a Mac OS on that motherboard if you wanted to.

Chipset drivers are just that. Drivers. BIOS doesnt really have any say in it (other than being able to supply more volts to the NB and SB). Once you get the OS installed, get on nVIDIA's website and download the latest drivers for the board.

Conti027 · Feb 10, 2008

CDdude55 said:
Ya, i have heard that to, but i don't want to OC.

same, i didnt want to oc so i didnt care that it couldnt oc

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

Conti027 said:
nope i didnt do one thing
i think i read somewhere that you have to do a bio update if you want to oc a quad-core

The EVGA boards suck for overclocking quad cores. Thats one reason why I bought a new board. I could not post past 3Ghz. Others have had other luck. The last few BIOS releases (except for the current P32 I think it is) help improve overclocking of quad cores. Yet it didnt help me in the slightest.

pepsi71ocean · Feb 10, 2008

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
The EVGA boards suck for overclocking quad cores. Thats one reason why I bought a new board. I could not post past 3Ghz. Others have had other luck. The last few BIOS releases (except for the current P32 I think it is) help improve overclocking of quad cores. Yet it didnt help me in the slightest.

Did you try the P30 BIOS? I have gotten to 3.6GHz for benching, and im at 3.4 GHz stable on a evga 680i LT board. But i couldn't get past 3GHz with the P06 or P07 BIOS, odd i know.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

pepsi71ocean said:
Did you try the P30 BIOS? I have gotten to 3.6GHz for benching, and im at 3.4 GHz stable on a evga 680i LT board. But i couldn't get past 3GHz with the P06 or P07 BIOS, odd i know.

I have the second latest. The version right before they implemented Wolfdale support.

pepsi71ocean · Feb 10, 2008

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
I have the second latest. The version right before they implemented Wolfdale support.

you might have better luck with the P30, Its the BIOS for the actually 680i Se board if i remember correctly. The early versions that ended with AR/TR were not good with quads, and if you wrote evga they would sent you a new board that ends with either A1/T1. I had issues with getting past 3GHz but that might be my "ability". Ive found the P30 to be allot more useful and more open with the ability to over clock voltages that are otherwise locked on the P0 and 07.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

pepsi71ocean said:
you might have better luck with the P30, Its the BIOS for the actually 680i Se board if i remember correctly. The early versions that ended with AR/TR were not good with quads, and if you wrote evga they would sent you a new board that ends with either A1/T1. I had issues with getting past 3GHz but that might be my "ability". Ive found the P30 to be allot more useful and more open with the ability to over clock voltages that are otherwise locked on the P0 and 07.

My board came shipped with P30. Ive tried them and they dont work. My board was an A1.

CDdude55 · Feb 10, 2008

So im going to upgrade to a Q6600 and a better video card first, then i will try it out on XP and then insert Vista CD and hopefully all goes well.

vega22 · Feb 10, 2008

you will need drivers for vista for your hardware (such as soundcards, video cards, chipset and such) and you may be able to upgrade you xp to vista where the install will just overwrite the os files and leave your other data intact, tyhe only way to find out is put the disk in while xp is on and see if it will let you upgrade. if not you will need to boot from cd in your bios and lose all the data on your xp drive.

CDdude55 · Feb 10, 2008

marsey99 said:
you will need drivers for vista for your hardware (such as soundcards, video cards, chipset and such) and you may be able to upgrade you xp to vista where the install will just overwrite the os files and leave your other data intact, tyhe only way to find out is put the disk in while xp is on and see if it will let you upgrade. if not you will need to boot from cd in your bios and lose all the data on your xp drive.

Will all my files run fine if i do that?(Like my games)

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

I have games installed from two and three installs ago. All I did was backup the save files and plop them back in their place and ran the game. Games runs as though I never reinstalled.

CDdude55 · Feb 10, 2008

I don't need anything on my HDD tho. But should i just put the disk in when booted into XP anyway? Or do it in the BIOS? I dont mind formatting the HDD.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Feb 10, 2008

CDdude55 said:
I don't need anything on my HDD tho. But should i just put the disk in when booted into XP anyway? Or do it in the BIOS? I dont mind formatting the HDD.

Just put the disc in as you are booting the computer. You dont need to be in the BIOS. That is just unnecessary.

CDdude55 · Feb 17, 2008

Sorry for old thread bump, but i just found on my Motherboard box the ''Certified for Vista'' and the ''Vista Essential'' printed stick things. So i guess that means it supports it out of the box.

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