40GB: 06/05/97-i430TX-2A59IZ1BC-00

[ZeurPete]

Hi, to all readers

Again a bios problem with large Hardisks
By my second older pc I have had a crasched HDD. the bios is not supporting large disks so i do have a problem with my new 40 Gb.
By surfing the web I thought I had found the solution "a LBA PRO" from unicore. It solves the HD problem but it won't work with my pc it hold on starting win98 I can only see something in safe mode.
there is a conflict, so I tryed every slot en every jumper setting but still nothing works.
Is there someone who can help me by fixing this problem? mabey without the LBA PRO

Thanks (a verry sad person after 3 days struggle)

my bios
Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.8
Program: Unicore Chip Detect v0.72 2000.03.10
BIOS Date: 06/05/97
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 06/05/97-i430TX-2A59IZ1BC-00
BIOS Eval: 5DTX VER1.11 (6/6/97)
Chipset: Intel Triton 430TX rev 1
Superio: Winbond 977F/AF rev 0 found at port 3F0h

[Rainbow]

Looks like Zida 5DTX board but I found BIOS for 5DTX that has different BIOS ID:
08/04/97-i430TX-2A59IZ19C-00
5DTX VER1.2 (16/8/97)

What's your Flash ROM chip (remove the Award sticker and read what's under)?

[ZeurPete]

dear Rainbow,

thanks for responding mayby you can help me
on the chip after removing the label I found the following numbers
AT29C010A
12PC
9722

The brand is not readable for me too small but it seems a bit as ATMEL

for so far thanks, again
ZeurPete

[Rainbow]

Atmel AT29C010A is 128KB, the BIOS from Zida is 128KB too... Don't know why your BIOS has different string. Save your BIOS to a file and send it to my e-mail (ZIPped) - I will see if it can be patched. If not, I will patch the BIOS from Zida.