K7N2-L Most Optimized Bios Settings Required Please!

Hiya!
Any kind souls out there who can provide the best and most optimized BIOS setting for this board? Previously I recalled lots of nice people helping with their settings
Thank You!!
Benedict

Having now read the excellent post by klondike on this board I want to update my bios to the 11.50 (B50) version.
I know about all the dangers of updating your bios but as I am having prob’s with my board and it seems like the B5 bios is better that the B4, I want to update it but I have tried now for 2 hours to update it and I am obviously doing something very wrong and it is doing my head in!
I have read the MSI guide to bios updating and others on this forum but I can’t get anything to even start to work.
I have downloaded and un-zipped the B50 bios update for my board. I have put the unzipped files in a folder in the C: drive I have named “test” I have made a dos floppy and set my bios to 1st boot floppy but when I boot to it at the A prompt you type C: (and enter) and it says bad file or command (I can’t remember which) so I then tried burning the bios files to a cd and once again after booting to the dos there is no option to get it to boot or find the cd drive you just get the A: prompt
I have also tried updating it though live update but live update says the latest version is 11.4 (B4) and that is what my board already has so I can’t update it from there as MSI have not updated their live update page.
I am almost at my wits end and feel like setting light to the dam thing, all I want to do is up date my bios its not that hard I have done it before on other pc’s but I can’t remember how I did it! (thats my age)
Please can someone spare me a few minutes to talk me though this.

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Originally posted by MaTT
i have a 2500+ that i\'m trying to oc to 200fsb speed with 1:1 ratio. Problem is that my ram doesnt want to run @200mhz despite being pc-3200. I can however run cpu@200 and ram @166 with complete stablility, so i know it isnt the chip. I\'ve nailed it down to either my ram is lousy (some generic type, nanya chips i believe), or my bios settings are wrong. All the memory settings are default. But i dont know if i need to do something with mem. timings or the spread spectrum options. Any suggestions, other than getting new ram, which i am doing regardless.
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Originally posted by No1_Barber
Can anyone help me with the Bios settings for my K7N2? And what temp should computer be running? THANKS!!! :D
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Hello,
You can see my specifications below.
I have been busy for weeks with my graphic card to reduce it's crashing.
Now I hope that someone, seeing my specifications below, might be so kind to help me
with the system BIOS settings, who are still at "default values".
I do video editing, burning etc. but no gaming.
I don't intend extreme over clocking.
I have removed the NB-fan as reducing noise is important to me.
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Seems we do something similar. See my signature for details. For me, it
worked out better to use 5:4 rate and to increase overclock the CPU only,
because MPEG2 encoding seems still to be CPU bound and mem performance
is not that big issue. The increase of speed is aproximately the increase of
CPU performance.
To enable 5:3, you have to set DRAM timing from AUTO to 333. Still a clock
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For me, setting ram timings to SPD allows the MB to do a lot of nasty things.
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set RAM timings manually. When setting it SPD, it will be on in Fast and up.
For me, PAT is switched on in 5:4 even in manual. Some say, in 5:4, PAT
can never be enabled. But for encoding, I saw no difference. For cutting, also.
Disable spectrum spread. Let PIC/AGP work at 33/66 fixed. To ackomplish this,
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anable Parallel only, you can set "keep yes fpr Serial" in IDE settings. Look for
other hints in this forum. (Sorry, just saw in your sig that you have SATA).
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simply switch off the fan. So I decided to by a cheap manual fan control. I use
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