Is there a more upto date bios that will recognise my WD caviar 80g hard drive?
My current bios is
Bios Date : 08/16/99
Bios type : American megatrend
Bios ID : 61-0816-001437-00101111-071595-ali1621-M726mrt_v1.2
OEM Sign on : 08/16/99 s
Superio : NSC 332 rev 8 found at port 2Eh
OS : Win2000 pro
CPU : Pentium III - 450mhz
rom size 256k
80GB: 61-0816-001437-00101111-071595-ali1621-M726mrt_v1.2
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>> New name is M726T
There are two Biosfiles - one 128KByte and one 256KByte
> Your flashprog should warn you if you try to flash the wrong one
Does the Bios only detect 32GB or is it hanging during IDE detection ?
>> New name is M726T
There are two Biosfiles - one 128KByte and one 256KByte
> Your flashprog should warn you if you try to flash the wrong one
Does the Bios only detect 32GB or is it hanging during IDE detection ?
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Make sure the jumpersetting on the WD HDD are correct - uses a non-standard Single-Master setting if only the HDD is connected to one channel
Is the IDE-port the HDD is connected to set to Auto-Detect on each system start ?
> Try "IDE HDD Autodetection" in Bios
> The HDD or WD website should have Cyl Head Sector values written onto it - try to enter these values manually in Bios and enable LBA
If this does not work upgrade Bios
Is the IDE-port the HDD is connected to set to Auto-Detect on each system start ?
> Try "IDE HDD Autodetection" in Bios
> The HDD or WD website should have Cyl Head Sector values written onto it - try to enter these values manually in Bios and enable LBA
If this does not work upgrade Bios
I have checked jumper settings and HDD auto detect with no joy. I have not tried manual setting cylinder head values. I will give a try, but i suspect it is the bios version as ajzchips says.
The question is how do I know which one is the right version for my board. 128k or 256K? My current version has a 256k rom.
Shabs
The question is how do I know which one is the right version for my board. 128k or 256K? My current version has a 256k rom.
Shabs
Try older AMIFlash - one can be found on my page, or use UniFlash.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
usage: amiflash.exe bios.rom
(where amiflash.exe is the name of the utility and bios.rom is name of the file to flash)
The amiflash from my site is tested on M726 (non-MRT), UniFlash works fine too on M726.
(where amiflash.exe is the name of the utility and bios.rom is name of the file to flash)
The amiflash from my site is tested on M726 (non-MRT), UniFlash works fine too on M726.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
Since there appears to be 2 bios update files for the M726T( I believe this the new model number for M726MRT), how can I be sure which is the correct file. Is it the 2k1106s or the 991204s, or will Amiflash warn me if I try to flash the wrong one?