20GB: 08/14/97-i430VX-ITE8680-2A59GV3EC-00

nicolae788 · Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:37 pm

i already checked the pc partner which seems to have the bios file for this bios but it's the same with the actual bios that i have.I need a file that could make my bios see the entire hard rive and not only max.8GB
Thank you for the help and here is my mail address:nicolae788@xnet.ro
Alex.

Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:06 am

It's always a good idea to give us all the info you've gathered regarding your motherboard. Otherwise, we're forced to identify it from scratch (your BIOS ID). Reinventing the wheel isn't a good idea all the time.
In this case, you must have identified its model if you concluded that the BIOS release date is the same...

nicolae788 · Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:04 pm

O.K. then i will post here everything i've found on this bios including mother board manufacturer everything i can find.
Thank you.
Alex
P.S.:the code that i post it in the subject of the post isn't enough?

Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:32 pm

"PC Partner MB520NH and VXB8x0DS boards" at the "tested" link in my signature, tested with 60GB. Please let us know if it does the job for you and what drive you used.

Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:42 pm

nicolae788 wrote:P.S.:the code that i post it in the subject of the post isn't enough?

Sure it's enough, Nicolae, but getting to the right BIOS requires several steps. The BIOS ID is step 1. If you managed to identify your board and found its BIOS and verified that its release date is the same as yours, you've advanced several steps. That's why I just asked you to give us more than just step 1.

If, on the other hand, all you could manage to advance was to step 1, I wouldn't have said anything.

nicolae788 · Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:11 pm

Hello all
Thank you for the link very kind of you.I will now try to see what happens if you will not see any message here in an hour or so then something bad happened and if you'll see then everything it's o.k.
And yes the MB it's corectly identified it's a Pcpartner MB520NH.Sorry for not writing the complete info at the begining of this post but that's the way i understood things are going here and therefore i posted just the string.
All in one i am glad that you guys gave to me a response and helped me .
Thank you
Alex.

nicolae788 · Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:30 pm

hello again
Well nothing wrong happened but i was unable to udate the bios.Why?because it keeps saying insuficient memory in the error msg box.
I used a bootable floppy to which i made a copy of the patch file and the awdflash version 7.41 program.Do i did something wrong?And to what memory does this program refers to ,the conventional memory or the bios i am not sure ?Should i use another program instead of the awdflash version 7.41?
Thank you all
Alex.

Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:21 pm

Try creating a bootdisk with drdflash from www.bootdisk.com
It doesn't load memory managers.

nicolae788 · Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:19 am

Hello
Still having problems!!I tried with the program from bootdisk.com with bootdisk98,bootdisk98c and winboot and still having that error msg telling me that the memory it's insuficient.
What i observed was that when i typed the name of the flash file without the extension it didn't showed any error msg then asked me if i want to backup my existing bios selected yes and after backing it up it says "could not find the source file",what this means god knows.If i do not select to backup the old bios the same msg appears.If i type the name of the file with ending with the extension *.bin it says insuficient memory.
I do not understand what is wrong.I think that the only persons that can help me are you.And by the way if finally this bios update will be done the data on my hdd it will still be awaible?and after that i will see the rest of my hard as simple as that?
Thank you very much for your assistance and excuse for bodering you with my old computer but which i like very much.
Alex.

Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:05 pm

Try using UniFlash.

Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:58 pm

nicolae788 wrote:Hello
Still having problems!!I tried with the program from bootdisk.com with bootdisk98,bootdisk98c and winboot and still having that error msg telling me that the memory it's insuficient.
What i observed was that when i typed the name of the flash file without the extension it didn't showed any error msg then asked me if i want to backup my existing bios selected yes and after backing it up it says "could not find the source file",what this means god knows.If i do not select to backup the old bios the same msg appears.If i type the name of the file with ending with the extension *.bin it says insuficient memory.
I do not understand what is wrong.I think that the only persons that can help me are you.And by the way if finally this bios update will be done the data on my hdd it will still be awaible?and after that i will see the rest of my hard as simple as that?
Thank you very much for your assistance and excuse for bodering you with my old computer but which i like very much.
Alex.

you still did not use the drdos bios flash disk they have there which is specially designed for bios flashing. Instead you still chose to use windoze floppies that load some sort of memory manager thereby messing up awdflash.

nicolae788 · Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:22 pm

Hello all
problems still are .I used the drdos bios flash startup disk creator and no more insuficient memory msg.now what is happening:
-with award flasher version 5.53A it's like that:it displays the flash type as 2F8010/12V and when i hit Y for the programing process to begin it shows ERASE CHIP FAIL! as error msg.
-with award flasher 7.41 it says UNKNOWN FLASH and doesn't let me go further.
-with award flash 8.12 it says IMAGE BIOS FILE NOT ORIGINAL and then asks me if i want to program and i hit Y and then UNKNOWN FLASH and out of the program.
-with uniflasher the commands for flashing are not active and next to the organisation field it asks me if write protection was removed.
now what could all this be?In the MB manual i didn't found any references to a jumper which enables or disables the write protection so if there's such a jumper were can i find it on my motherboard?
Below i will show you all the info for this MB:
BIOS CAPABILITIES TEST REPORT
===============================

Generated by: BIOS Wizard 2.10
Date: March 11, 2004
Time: 17:29

PnP Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
PCI Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.1
PCI IRQ Routing Table : BIOS currently supports this feature
Enhanced Disk Drive
Specification : BIOS doesn't support this feature
DMI Version : Current version is 2.0.The minimum DMIversion is 2.1

ACPI Version : ACPI is not found
APM Version : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.2
Booting From CD-ROM : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports ESCD : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Updated (flashed) : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Shadowed : BIOS currently supports this feature
BIOS Chip in Socket : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports Selective Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports LS-120 Booting : The testing of this feature is not supported by
the current DMI version
Supports ZIP Booting : The testing of this feature is not supported by
the current DMI version
Supports Network Booting : The testing of this feature is not supported by the current DMI version

BIOS Manufacturer : Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID : 08/14/97-i430VX-ITE8680-2A59GV3EC-00
BIOS Date : 08/14/97
BIOS OEM Signon : BIOS-I (70814B)
BIOS ROM Size : 128K
Chipset : Intel Triton 430VX rev 2
Super I/O Chip : ITE 8679 or 8680 found at port 279h

Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:27 am

Can you peel off the AWARD sticker from your BIOS chip and read us what's printed on the chip?

nicolae788 · Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:14 pm

Hello
O.K. done this what i saw:
A large MX logo and next to it this:J9731
and beneath all this logo and code the folowing numbers:
28F1000PPC-12C4
M11757
Hope this will help you.
Thank you very much for your efforts.
Alex.

Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:49 am

Is your flashing voltage set to 12V? Please check the jumpers.