80GB: 12/18/1999-i440LX-SMC67X-2A69JDC-00

Selfdefence · Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:08 pm

NickS, it looks to me, it didn't fit.

"Remain compress code space = 0FF9Bh(-0.1K)"

C:\>cbrom 76I107x.bin /D
CBROM V1.32 (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved.

              ********  76I107x.bin BIOS component ********

 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
===============================================================================
  0. System BIOS       20000h(128.00K) 13DEAh(79.48K)  original.tmp
  1. CPU micro code    04000h(16.00K)  022EFh(8.73K)   CPUCODE.BIN
  2. ACPI table        024CAh(9.20K)   00E51h(3.58K)   ACPITBL.BIN
  3. EPA pattern       00642h(1.56K)   002A1h(0.66K)   AWARDEPA.BIN
  4. XGROUP CODE       04377h(16.87K)  02E9Ah(11.65K)  awardext.rom

  Total compress code space  = 1A000h(104.00K)
  Total compressed code size = 1A065h(104.10K)
  Remain compress code space = 0FF9Bh(-0.1K)

                      ** Micro Code Information **
Update ID  CPUID  |  Update ID  CPUID  |  Update ID  CPUID  |  Update ID  CPUID
------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------
SLOT1  20   0632  |  SLOT1  32   0633  |  SLOT1  33   0634  |  SLOT1  29   0651
SLOT1  14   0652  |  SLOT1  04   0660  |  SLOT1  06   0670  |  SLOT1  27   0650
SLOT1  13   0630  |
C:\>

Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:15 pm

Strange, MODBIN didn't complain!
Your insertion of RET sounds like a good fix of last resort.... but I wonder whether removing a microcode module would help - should free up over 1KB.