need some straight advice about an upgrade

[jsave123]

If this is the wrong area to post please let me know. This is some info on my chipset and my bios. I would like to update my bios in order to be able to recognize larger harddrives(I use a 160 gig Maxtor). I have tried to go through the Shuttle people and they can't(or won't help) supply any info. I have tried Unicore for an upgrade but what they supplied only blew my system to pieces I had to go to the people the board was purchased from and fortunately they had a bios chip from the same kind of board. We did a hotswap and got my system back up and reflashed with the original bios. Is there a bios upgrade for this board and has anyone been successful in upgrading this particular configuration. Thanks for hearing me out.

Chipset Properties
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A


Chipset Manufacturer
Company Name VIA Technologies, Inc.
Product Information http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/chipsetindex.jsp
Driver Download http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2


BIOS Properties
BIOS Type Award Modular
Award BIOS Type Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message (AV18S98I) VIA Apollo Pro133A AGPsets
System BIOS Date 03/14/01
Video BIOS Date 06/26/03

BIOS Manufacturer
Company Name Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Product Information http://www.phoenix.com/en/products/default.htm

Problems & Suggestions
Suggestion System BIOS is more than 2 years old. Update it if necessary.



Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID 03/14/2001-694X-686B-6A6LJH2CC-00
Motherboard Name Shuttle AV18

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel GTL+
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type SDR SDRAM
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties
Bus Type PCI
Bus Width 32-bit
Real Clock 33 MHz
Effective Clock 33 MHz
Bandwidth 133 MB/s

Motherboard Physical Info
CPU Sockets/Slots 1
Expansion Slots 1 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR
RAM Slots 3 DIMM
Integrated Devices Audio
Form Factor ATX
Motherboard Size 190 mm x 300 mm
Motherboard Chipset ApolloPro133A

Motherboard Manufacturer
Company Name Shuttle Inc.
Product Information http://www.shuttle.com/hq/product/product.asp
BIOS Download http://www.shuttle.com/hq/support/download/download.asp

[Denniss]

Bios depending on your motherboard revision number is here :
ftp://ftp.shuttle.com/BIOS/av18/

Some Info/pictures here :
http://de.shuttle.com/av18.htm

AFAIK no support for HDD >128GB - use an Add-In PCI IDE-UDMA card

[jsave123]

I've been looking at these pages already and am currently running an addon card to utilize the large drive. I was hoping there would be an upgrade for the bios since the existing one is a couple of years old.

[edwin]

The only upgrades available are listed on the downloadpage at Shuttle. You're already using the latest version and I don't expect any upgrades for this legacy board.

[jsave123]

Thanks for the input; I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be the case for once.



Thanks folks