120GB: QDI Titanium IB+,06/05/1998-i430TX-NS309-2A59IQ1GC-00

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Hi everyone,

i need a bios recognizing my Samsung 120 GB HDD. Ontrack DDO didn't work for me. And the fixed Bios on your Site is only for HDDs up to 64 GB:(

Thanks alot in advance

WW

Sorry, i forgot the "00" in the Topic. The correct string is "06/05/1998-i430TX-NS309-2A59IQ1GC-00".

Can anyone help me please?

email ist wicked.weasel@muschi.de

Thx

WW

[ajzchips]

Sent. Don't forget to provide some feedback.

Hmmm, it didn't work.

AWDFLASH says "The program file's part number does not match with your system"

Flashing it anyways shows the following errors:

When I select "STANDARD CMOS SETUP" in the Bios it freezes showing only the lines Primary Master and Primary Slave.

"IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION" shows a red box with "Auto-Detecting Primary Master" and a "2" four lines below.

And there ist a bug which is also present in the official Bios v1.5, which causes my system to show all Drives as write-protectet (Write protect error writing drive X), with the v1.0 Bios it works fine.

Any advice?

[ajzchips]

You might want to read this:
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... t=titanium

[NickS]

@ajzchips: Reading through that, the 128GB patch didn't work but the 64GB did. Maybe a candidate for bp ?

I'm also not clear whether this "write protect error" is a feature of the factory 1.5 BIOS or not.

[ajzchips]

I haven't tried "bp" yet, so please be my guest, Nick.

[NickS]

I'm not so sure, as data-bear just killed his machine with the bp version of the BioStar M5ALA BIOS. It's worked on a number of other machines OK... how about the "write protect" error with version 1.5 ? Does anyone know what the last safe version was and where to find it ?

[NickS]

http://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/25221.html has a "1.5SB" beta version slightly earlier than the "1.5SL":
OEM message: P5I430TX/T1B+ BIOS V1.5SB Feb.15,2000
BIOS ID: 02/15/2000-i430TX-NS309-2A59IQ1IC-00

Although the ID is different and will cause an error message when programming, two or three people replied saying it works fine with the T1B+. Maybe Wicked Weasel would like to see if this produces the HDD write protect error; if it does not we can look at patching it with bp.