BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

Home made bios hotflasher made on the cheap...

I figured on sharing a gem of an idea I found some time ago, regarding PC-Partner & Octek motherboards from the 1998 to 2001 period, {though i'm sure "most" Octek
boards are just re-branded PC-Partner boards anyway}..
All boards I've found that ...

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Post by KenH

BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

Intel VGA BIOS Modification Tool?

Hi all,

Anyone have an access to/info about the Intel BMP (BIOS Modification Program) utility which is used to modify Intel VGA BIOS?

TIA,

a.k.a Pinczakko

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Post by maman

My hard drive isn't recognized

Dell Inspiron AHCI can't detect hdd

I've managed to build a custom pci option rom for my Dell inspiron 9400 to switch ICH7 controler from compatible to sata ahci mode.
PCI registers looks ok but at boot time bios report my hdd as is was detected in legacy mode and ...

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Post by gabiz_ro

General

Does Asus P5VDC-X with BIOS v. 0701 support 64-bit OSes?

Hello everybody!

How to check
if my mobo P5VDC-X (Asus)
socket LGA 775
BIOS v. 0701 (American Megatrends Inc.) 11/08/2009
supports 64-bit OSes?
The question is because I'd like to buy
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6 GHz.

Best regards, ...

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Post by Tomasz

BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

Help : Onboard BIOS not Award BIOS

Hello all, I'm new here and i want to ask something that makes me confused.

Problem :

I recently insert SLIC from Dell to my nforce610i. Then, i want to update my BIOS, but Winflash keep says "Onboard BIOS not Award BIOS". Someone ...

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Post by Andrea_83

Notebook BIOS and other problems

FLASH BIOS Failure

Reinstalled Win XP Pro through SP3 with no problems and connected to the HP Driver site to get driver for touchpad and graphics card with no problem. HP Webiste indicated that a BIOS update was recommended. When installed recommend FLASH BIOS update, it failed and now the ...

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Post by DDTHOMAS

General

Changung the BIOS setting from linux

Hi,
Sorry if its already answered or is not worth to answer.
I am trying to update the bios settings from a Linux OS(preferebly with a live image).
The settings i want to change are mostly boot orders, like set the boot order to ...

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Post by sanjeeb

Notebook BIOS and other problems

Crisis recovery key sequence for Clevo M570U?

My Clevo M570U (aka Sager 5760 or Rock Xtreme CTX Pro among other branded names) is dead and I want to try a crisis recovery reflash (it's running Phoenix Trustedcore BIOS). None of the usual key sequences do anything ({Fn or Win} + ...

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Post by ocoro02

Notebook BIOS and other problems

MSI M677 BIOS Problem

Hey folks, I have a problem here I'm hoping to get a hand with. I recently had an MSI M677 notebook with an AMI A1633NMS BIOS go pretty much dead on me. The power would still turn on, and the CPU fan would run, but that's ...

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Post by jools1976

Other BIOS update issues.

Bios Update?

Hi new to updating Bios's so forgive me if I'm being really dumb.

When i start my computer i get the following details

08/13/2008 - Broadwater - 6A79LFKFC-00
Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00 PG
9657AA Series 638F1P51 081308

just wondering how I find out if there is a Bios update ...

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Post by simonhutton