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Also check out the "BIOS Related Pages" section (right column).... VERY educational.

http://rainbow.ht.st/hardware/hotflash.html

AWARDMOD is a Windows-Tool to modify Awrdbios-files
You can find it :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/awardmod/

with sourcecode ... maby helpfull for the "32GB Bug Project" :-)

At this page
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm
you can get some (patched) biosfiles which support the K6-2+ and K6-III+

I hope I could help again :-)

Gigabyte has prepared a BIOS upgrading tutorial:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/support/procedure1.htm

Quite complete. Note: replace any Gigabyte entry with your manufacturer's.

Windows XP is a LOT pickier about what it considers ACPI compliant than Win98, and even Win2000. Case in point, my Asus P2B-F installed perfectly as an ACPI board under 98 and 2000, but in XP I had to modify the TXTSETUP.SIF file to force an ACPI install.

If you're determined to install ACPI under XP, here's some required reading:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... US;q216573
http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/ ... ...

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I've found that all Award BIOSes dated July 1994 or later correctly support the LBA assisted translation up to the 8 GB limit. There is however a bug in the BIOSes dated before January 1996 that limits the harddisk size display, on the BIOS Setup and boot screens, to 2015 MB.
Whenever a drive is 2016 MB or larger, the display starts to count from zero again. The same happens at 4032 and 6048 MB. ...