bios flashing a stock mobo?

[Papahyooie]

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this. I have an emachines w3653. It has a motherboard that I have identified as a ECS 945GCT-M3. Emachines product support page also confirms that this is indeed the motherboard, and the ECS website has a page for it, and motherboard matches exactly from the picture and specs.

What I was wondering, is it possible to flash the emachines motherboard with the bios from this page: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Pr...tegoryID=1&DetailName=Manual&MenuID=1&LanID=0

That would enable overclocking, and lots of other goodies that are of course not present in the stock emachines bios. I have flashed a few bioses in the past but they have always been simple upgrades, stock bioses that were meant for the particular board and machine exactly. I would think though that it would be safe to flash the bios with the ECS one since it is the exact same board.

Any thoughts?

 

[hat]

Hell, try it. You can get a low-end 775 board for pretty cheap these days if you do indeed brick it.

 

[Papahyooie]

im leaning towards just saying hell with it and trying lol. However saving up for an i7 system, i dont want to spend any money if I dont have to. Ive always been of the philosophy that if you can afford to fail what do you have to lose. But i'd rather not lose. Anyways, I am looking around googling the shit out of this and it seems some people say it will work, some say it wont... little help lol.

 

[2wicked]

Doing so may unactivate a preinstalled operating system (xp vista ect.).
The bios on the ECS site does not contain the Oem SLP/SLIC tables that may activate some OEM Windows installations, so you may need to reactivate with the key on the case sticker.
Other than that if it's the same board it's worth a shot.

 

[Papahyooie]

well yes thats a given. im not worried about that. Im worried about bricking a perfectly good (if kind of crippled) board.