Bios File Request

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

by **miki02131** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:44 pm

Anyone with the original bios for the P2V-BT (Asus/HP board) with Via Appolo 133A Chipset? HP provides an update to the original bios but the update doesn't seem to work well uniflash. When hotflashing with Uniflash, the update seems to program the chip for the Intel BX chipset variant.

Thanks,

Miki.

by **edwin** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:18 pm

Ah so you don't want the Harrier but the Kestral bios from HP.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/gene ... em=pv494en

this is the ID string:
04/17/2000-VT693-596A-PELICAN-00
1.16

So it is for a VIA chipset. This is for the P2B-VT VIA chipset board. If you need the actual bin file, unpack that exe with winrar or winzip and rename bios.rom to kestral.bin

And don't forget this is an OEM Asus board so use the asus parameter for uniflash.

by **miki02131** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:10 pm

Evasive,

The file is not the problem then since this is the one I've been using. Even when I use the -Asus switch I got a flashing error. Maybe the old Abit BE6-II I use for the hot flash is the problem. I will try again on a different system. I think another HP board might be ideal.

Thanks,

Miki.

by **miki02131** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:49 am

Check the hotflash log out and let me know what you think:

00:13:34.81: UniFlash v1.47re.08 started: A:\UNIFLASH.EXE -E BIOS.ROM -FORCE BFB6 -UNLOCK -LOG
00:13:35.14: AWARD flash interface enabled
00:13:35.64: Chipset detected: Intel AGPSet 440BX/ZX [AWARD BIOS]
00:13:35.75: Flat Real Mode initialized
00:13:35.91: CMOS size detected: 128b
00:13:35.97: Found DMI 2.2 board info: <<http:\\www.abit.com.tw>> I440BX-W977(BX133-RAID/BE6-II v2.0)
00:13:36.13: Detected Award BIOS ID: 6A69KA1C
00:13:36.24: Award flash interface - flash enable
00:13:36.35: System ROM selected
00:13:36.63: Allocating memory block 00040000
00:13:36.79: Allocating memory block 00040000
00:13:36.90: Allocating memory block 00001080
00:13:37.01: Flash ROM chip forced: SST 39SF020(A)/5V
00:13:37.23: Flash ROM ID: 0000,0000
00:13:37.34: Exiting UniFlash...
00:13:37.45: Award flash interface - flash disable
00:13:37.62: Turning off logging, shutting down to real mode
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