I need help with upgrading my BIOS

Sat May 11, 2002 12:23 pm

Do you see the new string "11/20/2000-440BX-ITE8671-2A69KV3IC-00"?

lifewing · Sat May 11, 2002 1:52 pm

no man, the release date is still 05/07/1999

Sat May 11, 2002 1:58 pm

Download the file again and flash using older version of awdflash (or try AMIFlash or UniFlash - at your own risk).

lifewing · Sat May 11, 2002 2:03 pm

do you know whats _really_ wierd?

I used your 'Uniflash' program........ and it doesn't do anything either! well it does, it goes through all steps successfully, but the release date is still the same

what could possibly be the matter?

Sat May 11, 2002 3:05 pm

Open the file using MODBIN and see the BIOS ID string (to check if you're flashing correct file).

lifewing · Sun May 12, 2002 3:55 am

i did it - the release date on the file (its B1120IAG.BIN btw) is 11/20/2000
Its just not flashing correctly!!!!

but it goes through all the steps...
no errors...

in another post i was advised to disable Flash Write Protect do you know how I could do that?

or maybe I use the old award flasher? could you give me a link to download a suitable version of awdflash.exe?

Sun May 12, 2002 11:31 am

Carefully peel away the award sticker from the bios chip and tell us what is printed on the chip itself. I have a feeling there is something wrong with the flash voltage setting. We need to find out which chip this is to find the correct setting.

Manual, page 7:
http://www.pcpartner.com.hk/man/intel/883901b.pdf

lifewing · Mon May 13, 2002 9:39 am

heres everything I found on that chip

ATMEL
AT49F002T
12PC
9816

hope it helps..

Mon May 13, 2002 7:27 pm

49F002T should be 5V chip - I have it on my Asus P2B board.

Mon May 13, 2002 9:15 pm

So the ATMEL/SST 2Mb settings from the manual (4th option in the table on page 7).

JP8: 2-3
JP23: 2-4

lifewing · Mon May 13, 2002 11:08 pm

alright ill change the jumpers now

should I try flash again after I do it then?

lifewing · Mon May 13, 2002 11:20 pm

bad news.

those jumpers were already set that way

lifewing · Tue May 14, 2002 6:49 am

hey heres something new...

award flasher 5.2A tells me that:

'System was not new award BIOS version
Please update ROM BIOS first... '

but when I looked at it with modbin, it was way newer... what is going on here........ ???

Tue May 14, 2002 7:53 pm

That Awdflash is too old and does not work at all on your board.
Try to hot-flash the chip in another board...

lifewing · Wed May 15, 2002 8:47 am

whats a hotflash ?