Hello...

I'm working on a PCChips (oh, no...) M729 mobo - at least I think that's the right company. The system currently has a 300MHz Pentium II and the board was originally set at bus speed 66 MHz with a 4.5 multiplier. The board supports PC100 and the user has bought and installed a 64MB module in this unit. I've set the bus speed at 100MHz and the multiplier to 3 through jumpers, but the BIOS now says it is running at 450MHz.

Is the BIOS in error? Is the CPU really running at 450MHz (yes, it runs)? Or, at 300MHz?

I thought a BIOS update might fix the problem, so I downloaded the bin file and AMI flasher from www.pcchips.com for the M729, but when I run it, I get an error message:

Error 9 - The BIOS tag is incorrect.

What on earth does that mean? Is it still OK to flash the chip?

TIA for any help.

Mark