60GB: 04/26/1999-SiS-5600-8661-2a6ilc39c-00

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

Hi,

I`ve bought a new drive, a seagate 60GB Barracuda V (ST360015A)
and i want it to work in a slot 1 motherboard with the following bios string

04/26/1999-SiS-5600-8661-2a6ilc39c-00

but the bios hangs on boot. I think the motherboard is a Chaintech 6SSA2
wich is in the list on http://http://wims.rainbow-software.org

That bios string is the same as mine so i was wondering if something is wrong or should i flash my bios anyway. Because the list says it is tested with drives up to 64GB but mine isn`t working.

[Rainbow]

The BIOS at http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ is patched version of the original BIOS you have. The string is not changed.

ok, then i will try to flash it with that patched version. Thanks for the fast reply.

[Rainbow]

Make sure first that your board is really 6SSA2 (some Chaintech board models have same BIOS ID strings although they need different BIOS) - should be printed somewhere on the board.

i think this is the right one. There is a sticker with that serial. But i cant get the bios flashed.

when i type AWD812 6ssa2426.BIN /py it doent work.

and when i use an other version for example AWD741 it says insufficient memory

then i use this command AWD741 6ssa2426.BIN /py/tiny
the program returns a checksum but when i answer the question if i want to save my bios, it seems that the pc is hanging.

any tips?

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Edit

Now it works. I used AWD812 /py/tiny and then filled in the name of the bios.bin and finally it started to flash the Bios with no errors.

harddisk detected
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[NickS]

Memory error message usually indicates that you have himem.sys or similar on the bootable diskette you are using for flashing. Remove/rename config.sys and autoexec.bat