120GB: Gigabyte GA-586TX3

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

by **Andreas** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 12:09 pm

BIOS Version is 2.1 dated to (Aug.14, 1998).

And is Downloadable here:
http://ftp.gigabyte.com.tw/support/temp/5tx3_21.zip

Hope you can help. Thanks in forward.

Andi

by **ajzchips** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:07 pm

Here: http://wims.host.sk/ajz/

by **Andreas** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:38 am

ajzchips wrote:Here: http://wims.host.sk/ajz/

muchas gracias. :wink:

After i flashed your bios everthing looked fine. Flasher said everything ok. Then i entered the Bios and after i went to the menu with harddisks i got a freeze with a picture with half the blue standard award looking menu and a purple part in the second half of the picture. So there is no chance to change anything according to hard disks.

Is there anything i could do wrong? I loaded the defaults values for the bios. Or should i make a complete cmos clear?

Greetings
Andi

by **ajzchips** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:11 am

I'd try a CMOS clear if I were you. Anyway, there have been cases of the "IDE AUTO Detection" submenu not working properly after the patch.
Just leave the HDD at AUTO in the Standard Setup menu and you should be fine.

by **Andreas** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 4:26 pm

ajzchips wrote:I'd try a CMOS clear if I were you. Anyway, there have been cases of the "IDE AUTO Detection" submenu not working properly after the patch.
Just leave the HDD at AUTO in the Standard Setup menu and you should be fine.

- did the CMOS clear - no change

- i completely can't use the setup screen. Its not only the hard disks its also where you change the time/date and other misc. stuff. All in the same menu screen.

- hm.. how can i leave it at Auto? i can't change it anymore.

Greetings
Andi

by **ajzchips** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:05 pm

I have an idea. The immediately previous release is version 1.7 (at Gigabyte's site). I'll patch that version so you can try it out. It patched successfully too, so I do hope this one works.

http://www.wimsbios.net/ajzchips/test/

Note: it is highly probable that versions 1.8 to 2.0 did exist, but were never available for downloading. What version did you have on your board? Did you save a copy of it? (only important if your version was between 1.8 and 2.0).

by **janpopan** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 10:09 pm

the same Board with the same trouble
http://www.wimsbios.net/phpBB2/viewtopi ... highlight=

I have the File with the ugly 64GB Patch now at my homepage.

Jan