Error 152 with Uniflash

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by **toniog** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 8:13 pm

I try to Hot flash a cheap "STT" on my ASUS A7N8X
and I always obtain the error 152 "Drive not ready"
I tried with about 5 differrent Bios File ...
I don't understund why ?
what can I do ?

by **Ulan** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:30 am

Yes I receive the same error flashing dead Epox 8RDA+ Award BIOS on working Abit NF7 motherboard. Tried two different BIOSes, two new floppy disks etc.

I have emailed Rainbow about why this is happening.

by **toniog** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:13 am

I try with new floppy and from a CD ...
I'll mail Raindow
!
thx

by **Rainbow** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:06 pm

Check if the file does not have the read-only attribute set. Looks like a bug in UniFlash - trying to open the file for read and write, which fails when the file is read-only. I get "Error #5: Access denied" then.

by **toniog** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:14 pm

The Bios file havn't the read-only attribute ...

Error #152: Drive not ready
"unable to open File !"

by **Rainbow** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:49 pm

What OS are you using to flash? MS-DOS/Win9X?

by **toniog** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:49 pm

I boot with a MS-DOS Floppy

by **Ulan** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:03 am

I have found that the Abit NF7 bios is 4mbit, compared to dead epox 8rda bios which is only SST 2mbit BIOS. Seems impossible to hot-flash on Abit board, winflash says "wrong size".

by **Rainbow** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:49 pm

You can flash chips with less capacity than maximum the board supports. Looks like a software problem.

by **Ulan** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 11:14 am

Also tried latest awdflash with and without /QI switch but complains about mismatch of MAC Address and FIREWIRE address of BIOS file???

toniog, have u fixed your problem?