VT6421a patch help needed please!

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by **DamianXD** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:46 pm

Hello Everyone

Firstly, thanks to anyone who can help me to solve this issue!

The problem is that I have a vt6421a sata/raid card that can boot by itself the hdd connected to it. So, I need to patch the bios of on old pcchip (sis 740 810D) motherboard.

I tried with mmtool 3.19 mod but I got an error saying "Error loading ROM image (1007FFh)". Then after some search on google I found that using mmtool 2 I can bypass that error and open up the bios for my mother board, but then I encountered another problem, after any kind of procedure the program just crash and I can't patch the motherboard bios with the pci bios.

Can anybody help me with this? Here is the full list of files that I got, includes: motherboard bios, pci bios, mmtool 2 and 3.

All the files: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UAY0YFLP

The vendor ID of 1106h and device ID of 3249h for the pci card

Thanks!!

by **Denniss** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:56 pm

Is this one of these supercheap SATA cards without Bios requiring customers to fiddle with their mainboard Bios to get it bootable ?
If yes it may be easier and is far less risky to bring back the card and get a better one having an own Bios thus is bootable without any more actions.

by **DamianXD** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:45 pm

Don't worry about it, is an old motherboard... and I really want to do this.
Can you help me?

by cp » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:26 am

i had to remove the ethernet module so no pxe/etherboot anymore. but i added the latest sis video bios capable of some widescreen resolutions ;)
the mainboard is a PCChips M810D, right?

get the patched bios here.

by **DamianXD** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:57 pm

Thanks CP!! =D That's exactly what I wanted! Really thanks!!

EDITED: I'm on some kind of a trouble here... I've tried to update my bios with aminf342.exe, AFUDOS.exe and AMIFLASH.COM.... but nothing seems to work.

With aminf342 I get an unknown device error, with afudos it says that my bios is not compatible and with amiflash it says that I need to run it in "real mode"

Can you help me with this?

by **DamianXD** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:03 pm

It works!! it really works!! I can make raid disks and boot from them!
Thank you so much!

by **guppiebugs** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:46 pm

Hi,
this should work with the K7SOM as well, right?
regards,
Peter

by cp » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:14 pm

M810D and K7SOM are at least similar. i owned some of those board a while ago but actually i forgot which bios is interchangeable with which board exactly.
so just to be on the safe side you should mod a K7SOM bios instead. make sure you get the right K7SOM(+) bios for your mainboard. one thing i do remember: the K7SOM+ bios files are not interchangeable between different mainboard revisions.

if you need help modding the bios just write a pm.

by **Frank1** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:08 pm

Hi,
i have the same problem with such a card and the Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466) Board. Is there a chance to mod the bios for this board too ?

regards,

Frank