News of BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

While going through the rainbow site I came accross updates for version 1.39, which include, taken from the page
'added support for Asus flash interface! (-ASUS parameter) - with this, it should be possible to flash all newer Asus boards'
Does anyone have any details on the asus parameter. I also mentioned this on my post about flashing an ASUS bios.

Any advice
I have a bios chip from an ASUS P4T533-C which is in the uniflash list of tested chips. I am trying to flash using an iWill MB P4GB the chipset also in the uniflash list of tested chipsets. When I flash the chip I get the message verify failed. This happened on my original chip and another I bought (thinking the chip was dead). Any suggestions, I did notice I have a bios ...

I have posted a reply to the issue stated in post;
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/topic7497.html#49652

However, as it is dated, I have started a new thread

I have the same issue only with a 512kb rom image and
an 4Mb Intel FWH

There are two versions of the firmware I would like to check for
uCode patches. Both images are AMI BIOS as with;

v1.3
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, ...

Hi, first time here, and I've never flashed a BIOS before.

After long adventures blaming everything from HDD to next door's cat I now know I have an out of date BIOS and possibly even the wrong BIOS.

Trouble is... what have I got?

This is a 9 yr old Tiny. Stamped on the mainboard is MS6178 ver 1.1. I can't find that ver 1.1 anywhere.

ID string is 63-10b1-001169-00101111-071595-WHITNEY-1WHITNEY-H

I've ben looking in lots ...

I have an old Evesham X5 (badge engineered Mitac 8050D). There have been a number of occassions when it has crashed and teh Windowsfault report response indicates that the BIOS is incompatable with the CPU/Chipset.

I have located the latest BIOS, both System and KBC (what is this?), on the Mitac support site. A Flashit Utility is included with the System BIOS but I can find no info on how to use this. I assume ...

Face-Wizard is a windows based utility with user-friendly interface that allows users to change the boot-up logo with picture from GIGABYTE Logo Gallery on web site or other compatible picture you have."

http://tw.giga-byte.com/FileList/NewTec ... wizard.htm

I keep a copy of some old Phoenix BIOS utilities here:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSutil/Phoenix/

This utility ...

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... ram120.exe

... analyses the PC's ESCD table and produces an output such as ...

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... 71ESCD.TXT
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... 71ESCD.SUM
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... 71ESCD.BIN
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ...

This is a list of manufacturers included in the man.dat file that ships with version 1.3 of AMI's motherboard identification utility:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... 13/man.lst

There may be some typos, either original ones, or as a result of unforeseen flaws in my decoding method.

I have decoded the information in the tag.dat and man.dat files that AMI ships with version 1.4 of the Motherboard Identification Utility:

http://www.ami.com/support/mbid.cfm

Here are the respective files:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... uf/MAN.LST
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/BIOSut ... uf/TAG.LST

The man.dat/lst file is a list of motherboard manufacturers and the tag.dat/lst file is a list of AMIBIOS Project IDs.

I'm trying to use AMIBCP.EXE (version V.7.60.04) ...

http://www.madmodmax.ru/files/AMIBCP_76004.zip
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S7A2/BIOS/AMIBCP.exe

... to modify this BIOS:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S7A2 ... A23C01.ROM

Unfortunately the Option Names for the various submenus of Configure Setup Data are blanked out. I believe these options should appear as text strings in the decompressed Setup Server BIOS module, ...

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S7A2 ... TUPSVR.BIN ...