Abit PN5 Flash Problems

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Oetsch
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Hy
First sorry for my bad English. Long Time ago I had it in school. I hope you understand what i want to say and perhaps you are so friendly and help me.

Ok I have an old Abit PN5 Motherboard and now I want to use it for an MP3-PC. But the Motherboard has a problem to identify my harddisk right.
It´s a 40 GB Harddisk and it only show 8GB to me.
So i want to update the bios, because the latest bios should identify Hardisks bigger than 10GB.

So i download the bin file from the internet an tried to update with the awdflash tool v8.xx but it alwyas shows unknown flash type.

After i searched a long time in the internet i found a solution. I should use an older flash tool. So I tried it with v6.22. There ist no longer warning of unknwon flash type, but when i say ok to programm the bios it stops directly and write: "Erase CHIP Fail!"
This happens with all kind of versions for this motherboard.
so i should be a general problem.

I searched all over the mainboard and controlled all jumpers
and looked everywhere in the bios. but there is nothing to protect the bios. So i can´t unprotect it, if it is protect.

How can I identify an Bios that i can´t update?
There ist a Printing at the bioschip:
Award Software Inc 1995
All Rights Reserved
PCI/PNP 586
sn:042916615 V______

The Bios Flash Tool says:
Flash Type - 28F010/12V

The Bios ID when I boot the PC:
08/19/96-i430HX-2A59FA1CC-OJ

I tried to update the Bios :
pn59u.bin;pn5f6.bin; and so on

Perhaps you could give me a solution for that Problem.
2 Months ago I asked the Abit Service what this is for a Problem (not realy the same Problem, but similar). The Abit Service from Europe were not able to answer, because the board is to old and said they have sent this question to Taiwan but until today there isn´t an answer.

thank you
Oetsch
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See what's printed on the BIOS chip under the sticker. Try flashing using UniFlash.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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Oetsch
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Hy thank you for your answer

Under the Sticker is printed:
MX C9628
28F1000PPC-12C4
M38735
Taiwan


Greetings and thank you
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If there's a flash voltage jumper on the board, it should be set to 12V for this chip.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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Oetsch
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Hy
i have tested uniflash v1.33 and the oldest v1.15
both say unknwon flash type.


i don´t know where to search. i´ve checkt all jumpers and the manual and there is no jumper for this. the only jumper for the bios is the reset jumper.

any idea?

thanks
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These MX28F1000 usually are tricky and problematic to flash .

Try different versions of Award Flash programs - you might use Aminf329 or 332 to flash your Bios but you have to alter some commands for a succesfull update
Oetsch
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hy
can you please describe this ab lillte bit ~larger~
i´m a normal pc user and this is the first time i must think longer than 5 minutes about a biosflash.

what means Aminf329 or 332

aren´t this tools for amibios?
isn´t this a award bios on the board?

what should this for commands be?

thanks
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If you are sure there's no Flash voltage or Flash protect jumper then first try newer version of Award Flash program .
-> late 5.x versions such as 5.50 or the 6.x version range should be OK to flash this chip .
Aminf329 and AMinf332 are AMI flash programs but they can be used as Universal Flash program ( Gigabyte has a Universal Flash prog based on this Aminf3xx series) .

If you really want to try Aminf3xx please use this first :
Aminf3xx /? to see all available commands .

If I rember correct you should type this for default options menu : Aminf3xx /x
-> Enable Bootblock programming
disable Clear CMOS or Load Defaults after Flash
disable Reboot after Flashing
then exit and save
to flash your Bios enter Aminf3xx pn59u.bin /-r
-> /-R prevents your system from rebooting - it seems this option sets back to default rebooting regardless you used in the options menu

I may have to check these options on my own system but this will be tomorrow
Oetsch
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Hy thank you for you extended answer.

i have tried to flash with award flash v 8.23 v 7.70 v7.41
-> unknown flash type

v6.22 is the oldest i can find and this knows the flash type but writes erase chip fail when i want to write the xx.bin to the bios.

the other solution sound interesting, but i don´t 100% understand how i should do this.

if you could give me further information it would be great.

perhaps it´s not good for the forum, but perhaps we could talk together with personal messages or icq. i see you come from germany.
german i understand much better :)

thanks good night cu
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Hy now i tried to flash the bios with aminf329 and aminf332

The Boot Programming is aktive, but when I go into the menü aminf3xx/x
There is a warning:
Chipset/Flash part isn´t availibel. The function will be invalid!

I think the program dosn´t know the bios chip.

there is the same warnings when i want to program the bios
aminf3xx pn59u.bin/-r

Any Idea?

Thanks
Oetsch
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Ask Abit - maybe they offer you a replacement chip .
Or get a new chip

-> I often had problem with these MX chips or their relabeled H.T. parts from Pcchips - sometimes I had to boot around 10 times to get a flashprog recognize this chip correctly - it seems if the 12V line is below 12V then the chip can't be accessed
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