80GB: BX-6XP2

dielegende · Thu Jan 02, 2003 7:45 pm

Dear WIMSBIOS.COM-Team,

I´m searching for a patched BIOS for my Bravo-Baby/Ford Lian/Redfox/Aprocom BX-6XP2 Mainboard witch doesn´t accept the new 80-GB-Western-Digital-HDD.

BIOS: AWARD 2A69KF9A
BIOS Date: 03/08/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/08/1999-i440BX-W977TF-2A69KF9AC
BIOS Eval: FOR BX-6XP2 PCI/ISA/AGP MODE VER:1.5_C
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3 (Pentium II)
Superio: Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h

Mainboard: Bravo-Baby/Ford Lian/Redfox/Aprocom BX-6XP2

Perpaps the best way is to send somebody my old BIOS Ver. 1.5_C to patch it because no other (patched) version is working!

I´d be much obliged, if I could get help here!!!

Thanks,

Michael

Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:34 pm

It's rev.C of the BX-6XP2 board. The BIOS is 256KB - the latest BIOS for rev. C is:
07/17/2000-i440BX-W977TF-2A69KF9HC-00
FOR BX-6XP2 ISA/PCI/AGP MODE VER:2.2

The BIOS ID is different. Anyone tried this one?

dielegende · Fri Jan 03, 2003 2:42 pm

Hi again!

Perhaps this could be helpful information for any BIOS Guru:

1) The BIOS witch is now in use you can find and download here (256 KB):
03/08/1999 i440BX-W977TF-2A69KF9AC-0
http://www.dielegende.de/_downloads/BX-6XP2.BIN

2) I´m searching since weeks all around the web and I also tried the patched BIOS diskussed between comdata and NickS in this forum here:
80GB: I440BX-W977TF-2A69KF99C-00
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... 1afee681b1
Unfortuately it didn´t work any way.

3) The Western Digital HDD I want to use is a Carviar WD800 (80,0 GB, UDMA/100, 7200RPM, E-IDE, LBA 156301488, MDL (=WD P/N): WD800BB - 00CAA1, 2002-08-30, DCM: D8FACV2CH)

I searched many hours and you are my last hope!
Please help me,

Michael

dielegende · Fri Jan 03, 2003 2:56 pm

@ Rainbow:

Thank you very much for your information. This seems to be a newer BIOS than mine. Where did you find it?

I searched for many, many hours and only found older versions.

Michael

Fri Jan 03, 2003 3:22 pm

Rainbow seems to have a magic hard disk...

dielegende · Sat Jan 04, 2003 11:10 am

Is there anybody out there...

...who could help me???

I´m sorry, but it´s really urgent. I need the patched BIOS for to make an important backup with the 80-GB-HDD.
I would be very thankful for any hint to solve the problem...

Sat Jan 04, 2003 4:18 pm

Found something here http://www.nt.ru/support/BIOS/bios.html

dielegende · Sat Jan 04, 2003 5:57 pm

@ Rainbow:

Interesting link, thank you very much!

I tried immediately this version (because it has the right size):

BX-6XP2C.BIN [REV:C AND LATER] --- 00/07/17 --- 2.2 --- 256 Kb --- PENTIUM II/III CPU, Y2K

I tried to flash with the Award Flash Memory Writer V8.12, but I got only this message:

-> The program file´s part number <-
-> does not match with your system! <-

Is it possible to make the necessary BIOS changes on my own?
I read on http://www.jan-hill.com/bios.html (german) that it´s ´only´ a bug.
And there exists a software tool to fix this 32GB and 64GB bugs...

Is this right???

dielegende · Sat Jan 04, 2003 6:41 pm

Now I tried Uniflash V 1.29 in combination with the same BIOS
(BX-6XP2C.BIN [REV:C AND LATER] downloaded from http://www.nt.ru/support/BIOS/bios.html)

Uniflash showed this message:

WARNING: BOOTBLOCK MISMATCH !!
PROCEED ANYWAY [Y,N] ?

May I proceed ???
(I made a backup of the original bootblock with Uniflash but I´m still a little bit afraid...)

JonnyJackson55 · Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:11 pm

Hello everyone,

OMG!! Wow, that´s great! I´ve got same problem!

I'll wait for solution, okay?

Thanks in advance
JJ

dielegende · Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:28 pm

Hi again!

The more I´m reading and learning, the more I think, I should perhaps use the advanced option of UniFlash for flashing WITH bootblock...

What do you think???

JonnyJackson55 · Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:21 am

The more I´m reading and learning, the more I think, I should perhaps use the advanced option of UniFlash for flashing WITH bootblock...

Hey, that´s a little bit dangerous, isn´t it?

Does anvbody know that russian website http://www.nt.ru/support/BIOS/bios.html ???

Cause I can´t read this.

Thanks in advance
JJ

Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:09 pm

dielegende wrote:Hi again!

The more I´m reading and learning, the more I think, I should perhaps use the advanced option of UniFlash for flashing WITH bootblock...

What do you think???

Do you have a spare 256KB BIOS ROM you can use for the hot-swap (hot-flash) technique ? That way you could recover if there's a problem flashing the 2.2 BIOS.
The tool which moderators here use was written by Rainbow. It could patch your existing BIOS but the later BIOS already has support for HDDs >64GB whereas the tool does not fix the display routines for drive size >64GB; although the drive will (normally) work the POST may not show the correct size. The later BIOS also mentions Y2K and PII/PIII support. I would use the later BIOS and write the bootblock, but have a fallback route - like hot-flash.

dielegende · Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:37 pm

Hurra, hurra!!!
It worked!!!

I was brave and flashed the russian BIOS version 2.2 with Uniflash in advanced mode WITH bootblock and now the 80-GB-HDD is recognized!!!

This is really a happy new year!

@ rainbow and NickS:

I´m very thankfull for your help and information. I just have had to buy a new mainboard and a new chip and probably new RAMs till Wendesday!
But this way I saved money!
Thanks a lot! This forum is great!!!

Michael

spector · Thu Feb 06, 2003 2:30 am

I have exactly the same motherboard and BIOS like 'dielegende' and had the same problems with a 80GM harddisc.

Then I did the same as him: I flashed my bios with Uniflash (using the patch from http://www.nt.ru/support/BIOS/bios.html) in the advanced mode with bootblock.
MY ADDITION: First my PC didn't boot at all after this, but then I reset the BIOS on default again (with a jumper on the mainboard, also possible by taking away the battery for a few minutes). Then it worked!

Thanks for the help in this great forum

!