Hi
Need a bin file to flash my bios to overcome 32gb limit
can anyone please help as I am unable to find anyone who has a download.
Award Modular Bios V4.51PG
Pentium PCI/ISA System Bios Ver 1.06 (#2036)
10/12/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
Thanks
Jeff
40GB:10/12/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
Can you save your present BIOS using the Award flasher, zip and email it ?
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
Emails *will* be ignored unless the subject line starts "Wim's BIOS forum"
Emails *will* be ignored unless the subject line starts "Wim's BIOS forum"
Update: Jeff's BIOS is dated later than the Packard Bell PB850 (FR500) 2.06 so I have patched and posted that. Both are 256KB (2Mb).
Details:
From PB website, version 2.06 for revs B and D ??
06/15/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5EC-00
rev:00.02.06
From Jeff's BIOS
10/21/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
PENTIUM PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VERSION:1.06 (#20636)
It would be interesting to see if Jeff can find a PCB revision.
@Jeff: also, do you have the CPU jumpers J5 and J6 or not ?
Details:
From PB website, version 2.06 for revs B and D ??
06/15/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5EC-00
rev:00.02.06
From Jeff's BIOS
10/21/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
PENTIUM PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VERSION:1.06 (#20636)
It would be interesting to see if Jeff can find a PCB revision.
@Jeff: also, do you have the CPU jumpers J5 and J6 or not ?
Hi Nick thanks againNickS wrote:Update: Jeff's BIOS is dated later than the Packard Bell PB850 (FR500) 2.06 so I have patched and posted that. Both are 256KB (2Mb).
Details:
From PB website, version 2.06 for revs B and D ??
06/15/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5EC-00
rev:00.02.06
From Jeff's BIOS
10/21/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
PENTIUM PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VERSION:1.06 (#20636)
It would be interesting to see if Jeff can find a PCB revision.
@Jeff: also, do you have the CPU jumpers J5 and J6 or not ?
The sticker between the SiS chip and jp24 is D04, I have a jp4 (enable/disable vga) but cant find a jp5
Jeff
Nick
Thanks the patch appears to work, the bios does not hang at hd detection and sees the 40gb maxtor drive now without the caplimit jp
I am however installing linux and the setup hangs with a kernel panic because it does not like the hd.
i have had this before when the partitions and formating is not right.
Where can I get fdisk/mbr from?
Jeff
Thanks the patch appears to work, the bios does not hang at hd detection and sees the 40gb maxtor drive now without the caplimit jp
I am however installing linux and the setup hangs with a kernel panic because it does not like the hd.
i have had this before when the partitions and formating is not right.
Where can I get fdisk/mbr from?
Jeff
fdisk should be on a bootdisk - try www.bootdisk.com. The other ways to trash the MBR include a small program entered via DOS debug which is somewhere on this site, or maybe IBM's Zap.exe; this zeros first 128 sectors of the HDD, which is probably the same thing.[edit]
Either of these should wipe out disc overlay software, but it will not reset the capacity reporting.
Either of these should wipe out disc overlay software, but it will not reset the capacity reporting.