Dear All, please help me find this BIOS upgrade....

[CosmicEgg]

I need a BIOS upgrade for my Lucky Star K7VAT, VIA KT-133 Chipset, ATX Form Factor Mainboard.

My BIOS info is as follows:

Program: Unicore BIOS Agent Version 1.9
BIOS Date: 10/12/00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN
BIOS ID: 10/12/2000-8363-686A-6A6LML19C
BIOS Eval: K7VAT(S)-A2
Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2
Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h

I need this upgrade because of the error (and other similar errors) shown below.

I appreciate your time and help.

Thanks.

Event Viewer in Windows XP Pro shows the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ACPI
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4
Date: 10/12/2002
Time: 12:49:33 AM
User: N/A
Computer: RYAN
Description:
AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x71), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 04 00 52 00 ......R.
0008: 00 00 00 00 04 00 05 c0 .......À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

[Rainbow]

LuckyStar page seems to be broken currently.
I uploaded the latest K7VAT BIOSes at http://rainbow.host.sk/myfiles/LuckyStar%20K7VAT/

Get the k7vatsa6.bin file, it should be for you. Although it's possible that it will not fix that problem with Windows XP.
01/04/2001-8363-686A-6A6LML19C-00
K7VAT(S)-A6

[CosmicEgg]

Hey thanks so much for your help...

One problem though, I guess I need Award Flasher v7.07 or later, I didn't realize I needed a seperate flasher....

Does anyone know where I could download myself a copy?

Thanks again!

[Rainbow]

http://www.amptron.com/html/utilities.html