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This is my attempt to create a unified UVGA driver package for all SiS integrated chipsets. The package is based on the logo'd SiS UVGA 3.91 driver. All binary files are left unchanged. Only the device IDs in the installation file were adjusted. It installs on every SiS chipset with integrated VGA and standalone cards from the following families :
- SIS 65x
- SIS 74x
- SIS 67x
- SIS 76x
- SiS 315 ...

What is this thing called bus?
When connecting drives to a bus like IDE/ATA some basic rules have to be taken into consideration. Bus means that there is one cable with many connectors on which the devices sit. The typical IDE/ATA controller has two identical independant busses which are called primary and secondary. For each of them the same rules apply. SATA is not a bus as there is a point to point connection from ...

First and foremost, I would like to credit all the knowledge to Rich_at_richud_dot_com for his research and work. Please see his credits as well.

Rich has a great tutorial found at http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
While you don't necessarily need to digest everything there, it is a requirement in order understand my brief how-to. His tutorial is great for those who need to decompile and edit their BIOS. In my case, with ...

+---------+------+------+----------+------+------------+
| CPUID | REV. | FLAG | CHECKSUM | SIZE | DATE |
+---------+------+------+----------+------+------------+
| 0x00F0A | 0015 | 0x02 | 63E49A0C | 2000 | 21.08.2002 |
| 0x00F25 | 002C | 0x10 | 62D062AB | 2000 | 26.08.2004 |
| 0x00653 | 0010 | 0x01 | 4B6DFC5E | 2000 | 28.06.1999 |
| 0x006B1 | 001D | 0x20 | 6D9B5661 | 2000 | 20.02.2001 |
| 0x00F27 | 0039 | 0x08 | ...

This mini-HOWTO shows how to replace a video bios that is embedded within the mainboard's bios.

Introduction:
While PCI/AGP/PCI-E VGA cards use their own bios apart from the mainboard's bios, embedded video bioses can be found on all mainboards that use integrated chipsets like those from Intel, VIA, SIS, ALi and NVidia. Their mainboard's bios needs an additional module to enable the vga capabilities: the video bios. As on every vga card updated video bioses ...

First the bad news: We can't patch/update Bios for native support of HDD over 128/137GB.

But the good news: If your Bios won't provide 48 Bit LBA support for drives above 128/137GB then you have additional options:

W2K SP4, WinXP SP1, Linux
You won't need native Bios support if you have Windows2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1 or Linux with a somewhat recent kernel (2.4.18 upwards). Install your OS into a partition within Bios limits and ...

The following HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario models appear to be failing during the BIOS update resulting in a dead system.

I highly suggest you do not attempt to re-flash or update the BIOS in the following models:


ZE4000 series (all models within the series)
ZE5000 Series (all models within the series)
ZE1000 Series (all models within the series)

Presario 2100 (all models within the series)
Presario 2500 (all models within the series)


The flash ...

This information applies for the following models...

PCG-FX, PCG-F, PCG-FXA

If you attempt to update the BIOS in your system and have installed additional RAM in slot #2 you have a good chance of a bad BIOS flash occurring.

ALL RAM installed in slot #2 (toward front of the system) should be removed prior to flashing the BIOS.

Sony incorporates the Keyboard Controller firmware into the BIOS image available for download. When the failure occurs ...

Uniflash Website (currently offline) -- Uniflash Website via Internet archive
-> Download version 1.40 here

What is Uniflash - ?

"UniFlash is a flash utility, that can flash BIOS on many boards.
UniFlash is made to be universal - this can be useful when you're hot-flashing your bios in another motherboard.
Not only that - it supports some PCI cards too and also supports c't Flasher ISA card"

The original Uniflash up to version 1.17 ...

The Intel i440bx chipset RAM module compatibility FAQ which used to be at:
n.ethz.ch/student/sroland/ram_bx_faq.html
is now hosted at
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/ram_bx_faq.html

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