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now its asking me to turn of the DMA and i do but it still says that its on. could you clarify what am i exactly supposed to do? ive even tried taking my 3rd hard drive out and uninstalling the second ide channel and letting it reinstall, and put only the cd-rw drive then turn off DMA and it still d...

oh and how come the firmware from that website doesnt even recognize the drive as an updateable one. is there any way to "erase" the cd-rw's firmware and re-install it?

and the firmware you pointed me to doesnt work under win2k.
i have dos firmware also from the archives but it doesnt work proberly under dos 7.1.

thanks for helping me out to find out what the drive really is though

i don't know if you guys do the bios thing cd-rw's but i know you can. My question is i need to reflash my cd-rw drive only because the damned thing dont write anymore but it reads just fine. CD-RW Model BTC 833IE / IDE8432 i know its possible because i've done it to my dvd rw drive before it fried....

Thank you but another problem... bootblock mismatch, im guessing there is no other bios files you have for my motherboard. Unless you have the 128kb PII-3100A bios... ok now a new question pertaining to a hard drive(i know it should be posted somewhere else im just being lazy). is there a way to tur...

only problem...

i have the Amptron PII-3100 motherboard
the download site you gave me has the bios update for the Amptron PII-3100B motherboard

the only difference between the 2 bios chips is the size.
if you could possibly find the 128kb bios file for the PII-3100
it would be extremely appreciated.

AMPTRON PII-3100 Motherboard ________ BIOS Bios type:Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Bios date:12/18/98 Bios ID:12/18/1998-i440BX-PII-3100-010C-00 OEM Sign-On:PII-3100 Release 12/18/'98 Super I/O:Winbond 977TF rev 0 found at port 3F0h Chipset:Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3 OS:Microsoft Windows XP Version: 5.1.2600...