80G: 04/26/1999-SiS-5600-8661-2A6ILC39C-00

[Paladijn]

Hello,


Could someone please help me?
I don't know how to get my Western Digital 80 GB te be regognized (:
I looked here for the solution: http://http://wims.rainbow-software.org
Found "Chaintech 6SSA2 rev.C", used Uniflash from Rainbow, worked like clockwork, but that didn't do the trick

This is my BIOS info:

Computer ID : FC, SubTyp: 01, BIOS-Level: 0
Rechnertyp : AT-3, Konfigurationsbyte $74
Maustreiber : Microsoft kompatibel, Version: 08.30
Maustyp : PS/2-Maus
Bus : ISA/PCI
Hauptspeicher : 640 KB, davon verfügbar : 640 KB
Extended Memory : 65472 KB
BIOS Datum : 04/26/99
PCI-BIOS gefunden : Version 02.10, 32-Bit-PCI-BIOS Revision:0
PCI-Busse : 2, Konfig-Mech.: 1, Special-Cycle-Mech.: 1
Award BIOS gefunden : Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Award ID-String : 04/26/1999-SiS-5600-8661-2A6ILC39C-00
Board/BIOS-Version : 04/26/1999
OEM : CHAINTECH
URL : http://www.chaintech.com.tw/bios/bios.htm
Chipset : SiS-5600-8661 //SiS 5591
INT-13h BIOS Extension: ja, Version:1.x, Fknt 41..48 unterstützt
PnP (ACFG,ESCD,DMI) : PnP V1.0/ESCD, DMI V 2.0, APM V1.2
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Any further help would be greatly appreciated!

regards,

Paladijn

[NickS]

Rainbow only patched that version for drives up to 64GB. I will email you a 128GB version to test.

[Paladijn]

Hi,

Will you?
That would be great!

TIA

Paladijn

paladijn at wanadoo.nl

[Paladijn]

Hi Nick,

I got your patched 6ssa2426.bin and flashed it with uniflash.
On my own risk naturally.
Everyting worked the same when i flashed it with the .bin Rainbowman patched (>32G). No strange things happened.

But after a reboot my screen stays black, no matter what I try

Any suggestions are welcome...

TIA

Paladijn

[NickS]

Ow. I can't take another look at the file I sent until tomorrow. In the meantime, there's absolutely no sign of life ? No attempt to read from diskette or anything ?

[Paladijn]

Nope.

Nothing at all..
Neither reading from diskette..

[NickS]

My apologies: I didn't double-check the patched file and it has a checksum error, which happens very occasionally with Award's Modbin utility. For the bootblock recovery procedure not to work imples that the bootblock has been corrupted. Do you have another board in which you can
hot-swap flash ? If not, what type of device is it - 29F010 ? If so I can lend/swap you a ROM which I can flash for you.

[NickS]

Note: this corruption appears to be a feature of using Modbin 4.50.80 in a DOS box under NT4.0. Windows 2000 is fine. Modbin 4.50.60 deletes the file on exit under NT4.0.

[Paladijn]

Hi Nick,

What can I say?
I forgive you , you're only human
What kind of device?
I put some pics here from my bios chip:
http://home.planet.nl/~adamknight/bios/
I hope these pics will ring a bell..
Maybe you can help me any further by lending me the right chip, if not, life goes on.

[NickS]

MX 28F2000PPC ? That's a Macronix 12 volt 2 Mbit part; I don't have one. Do you have another board you can try a hot-swap flash in, with 12V available ?

[Paladijn]

Hi,

No, don't have another one..
I think I'll send it to flashbios.org, it's somewhere up in the north of Holland.
Do you know about him? Somebody who used his service?

Anyway, thanks for your effort!

[NickS]

Macronix UK distributors say it's obsolete, so I can't get a "sample" from them.

[Paladijn]

Hey Nick ..

I've got the chip back, flashbios.org did it for me.
And everything works again
He flashed it with your patched bin.
New BIOS OEM string: 04/26/1999 6SSA2 128GB HDD beta.


Thanks again!

[NickS]

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it worked for you - sorry about the original bad file.