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Reply With QuoteAfter a lot of pain trying to create bootdisks and such, I flashed mine in windows.
I don't remember the flashing program, but it's the generic one for the bios brand.
Searching through the forms I've seen people claim that that've gotten 800x480 on the SP13000, and then in the same thread people say they are full of it. Back and forth, Back and forth. It's been a whiile, sooooooo...
"Has anyone gotten 800x480 on the VIA SP13000 to work yet?" If so, how'd you go about doing it (powerstrip, new drivers, etc). If you flashed the MB, do you have an .iso of your boot CD that you can share? Making one in XP is a royal pain (I tried to make one with Nero 6 and I got the stupid "Insufficient Memory" error). I even tried making my Sandisk Cruzier mini 256MB pen drive into a bootable device (to no avail).
After a lot of pain trying to create bootdisks and such, I flashed mine in windows.
I don't remember the flashing program, but it's the generic one for the bios brand.
Isn't it generally frowned upon to flash your BIOS in Windows?
Probably.
It's ultimately up to you whether to do it or not. I'm simply offering what I believe to be the easiest way to do it on the troublesome floppy-less SP13000.
I recently flashed my "old" abit kx7-333 bios from windows (win98se), and it worked perfectly. Just make sure you use the prog designed by the manufacturer of your motherboard, and that you do it after a clean cold boot (not after a resume from S3/S4)
Now Galileo is real. Muhahahahaha :p
I've owned countless computers, probably each a different brand, and I've always used the company's bios flash utility in windows with no issue whatsover. (save using advanced beta updates)
Like said above, a fresh cold boot and nothing running in the background will give you an easy trouble free flash.
After Flashing were you able to obtain the 800x480 like they claim it does, or does it still only do 640x480 and 800x600?
I've been using it for months after I flashed mine.Originally Posted by TokyoJoe
In my opinion it's impossible to use this resolution with this motherboard. VIA's tech support even says this. Also no one has been able to explain step by step how it could be achieved.
So until VIA releases a BIOS which is capable of doing this, it's a no-go. I requested this, but only getting absolute silence from VIA after the initial reply.
If this is really true, please specify the used BIOS file (Mine is 1.07, latest on the VIA website) and the steps taken to get the resolution set.
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