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by Aragorn
Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:05 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 60GB: 05/13/1999-693-686A-2A6LGPAAC-00
Replies: 5
Views: 4778

Thanks - I'm going to try it tomorrow. I'll let you know if (and how) it works!

Aragorn
by Aragorn
Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:16 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 60GB: 05/13/1999-693-686A-2A6LGPAAC-00
Replies: 5
Views: 4778

Hi Denniss, thanks for your reply - I didn't find this file because I only looked at Epox' international website (thought that anything available should be available from there). The file you posted a link to seems to belong to the Epox model 6 VBA (look at the file name!), which is a slot-1 board b...
by Aragorn
Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:49 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 60GB: 05/13/1999-693-686A-2A6LGPAAC-00
Replies: 5
Views: 4778

60GB: 05/13/1999-693-686A-2A6LGPAAC-00

Hi there! I just got this board; the writing on it identifies it as an Epox EP-3VBA. I'm going to connect a 60-GByte-or-larger drive to this board (60 GByte are sufficient, more would be nice); but when trying to detect the the connected hard drive the BIOS hangs. Running the built-in IDE HDD Auto D...
by Aragorn
Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:28 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Sure - you never know how stupid the person you are talking to really is. ;-) In the meantime I tried to program the BIOS chip with the new patched BIOS using Uniflash on MS-DOS - same result as before: The first half of the chip didn't match the first half of the file during verify. I then took the...
by Aragorn
Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:00 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello, and thank you - I'll test it as soon as possible. I hoped you meant that with "You'll have to disconnect your HDD to access the floppy" - but it was already clear to me that I would have to flash with no hard drive connected because BIOS hangs during boot-up with the hard drive attached! Arag...
by Aragorn
Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:17 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello,

64 GByte would be enough. What about the floppy drive - willl the patched BIOS only be able to use it when there is no hard drive attached, or did I get you wrong?

Aragorn
by Aragorn
Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:36 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Then a new BIOS patched with a different tool is the only way to solve this problem?
by Aragorn
Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:37 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hi, I don't know which tool was used to modify the BIOS - it is the BIOS ajzchips provided. Booting without keyboard really did the trick (but isn't much fun in the long run) - the system boots up and keeps running when you connect the keyboard after the graphics card has come up. But now the system...
by Aragorn
Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:27 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello, bad news again: I took the chip to an electronics store to have it programmed with the patched BIOS. Programming went OK, but at home, the BIOS doesn't work - black screen, floppy drive isn't accessed, even with an ISA graphics card that is known to work and after clearing the CMOS RAM. The o...
by Aragorn
Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:55 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello, I tried booting the "broken" board with the working BIOS taken from the other board (just as described in the FAQ) - it didn't come up; not even to a point where you colud boot DOS from a floppy disk. I think the chipsets are too different (the "broken" board has a VIA VXPro, the other one is...
by Aragorn
Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:49 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hi, and thanks for your support - the methods described in this FAQ article are exactly what I already tried. Boot-Block BIOS doesn't work (Black screen, even with an ISA graphics card, and the floppy drive isn't accessed during boot-up; and according to http://www.amptron.com/documents/Recover.pdf ...
by Aragorn
Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:59 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello,

Both Uniflash and awdflash identified the chip as a Macronix MX28F1000P (128 kByte / 1 MBit, 12V).
Clearing the CMOS RAM after the last attempt to flash the BIOS didn't help - I had the backup battery removed for about two hours while the system not plugged in.

Aragorn
by Aragorn
Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:56 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello again! Bad news: After Uniflash didn't work, I tried awdflash to write the patched BIOS into the flash chip. This tool told me that the update was completed successfully, rebooted - and the system doesn't come up any more. Black screen, floppy drive isn't accessed, clearing the CMOS RAM didn't...
by Aragorn
Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:55 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

Hello, that also explains why Uniflash told me that the BIOS I got from PcChips didn't match the board I have. Fortunately I made a backup of the original BIOS before trying the "new" one; I wrote this backup back into the BIOS chip after flashing the other BIOS had failed, so I didn't trash the boa...
by Aragorn
Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:28 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00
Replies: 25
Views: 10660

64GB: 05/29/97-VXPro-UMC8670-2A5LAHC09C-00

Hello everybody, I was given an old pentium-based system where a board with the BIOS ID mentioned above is installed. Using the PcChips Lottery I could find out that it is a PcChips M537 (also known as Amptron PM8400A) Rev. 5.1. The board recognizes only 8 GByte of the 45 GByte drive I attached; the...