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Jewell
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I want to upgrade my bios to support a 10gb harddrive and i'm having trouble getting a id string...the agent comes up with unknown...the only information i can gather are:
PhoenixBios ver 4.04 12/19/95
Board: M54Hi-06P
Intel Pentium 180 mhz
Chipset IntelTriton 430 FX rev2
it's a generic tower and can't seem to find any manufacturer name under system information it just has GenuineIntel. can anyone help me with the information i have :?: many thanks
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ajzchips
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Micronics M54Hi (ELAN) board?

http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/m5hs10.htm
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Jewell
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ajzchips wrote:Micronics M54Hi (ELAN) board?

http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/m5hs10.htm
thank-you for your reply...i'm not sure what (ELAN) MEANS...How would i be able to tell..i'm enclosing what the bios agent came up with

Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 3.23
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 12/19/95
BIOS Type: PhoenixBIOS Version 4.04 M54Hi-06P
BIOS ID: unknown
Chipset: Intel Triton 430FX rev 2
Superio: SMC 665GT rev 2 found at port 3F0h
OS: Microsoft Windows 98 SE Version: 4.10.2222 A
BIOS ROM In Socket: Unknown
BIOS ROM Size: Unknown
CPU Type: Unknown
CPU Speed: Unknown
CPU Max: Unknown
Memory Installed: Unknown
Memory Maximum: Unknown

eSupport.com, Inc.
1-800-800-BIOS (2467)
www.esupport.com

also would anyone know what "system bios shadowed "means :?:
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NickS
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From the link ajzchips gave you:
identified by the Micronics part number 09-00236 silkscreened on onto the front right corner of the board.
"System BIOS shadowed" means that the BIOS is copied from ROM into RAM to allow it to execute more quickly. This is pretty normal.
Also:
4.04 M54Hi-02P 05/03/95
4.04 M54Hi-05P 07/23/95
4.04 M54Hi-06P 12/19/95

All of these BIOSes support drives up to 3.2GB.
Due to a bug in the drive size calculation routines, the cylinder
field in CMOS setup will accept values only up to 6349 (3276MB).
This assumes that the heads are 16 and the sectors 63.
Cylinder values from 6350 to 8322 will cause lockup in CMOS setup.
Values 8323 and higher are OK. Does not work with drives over 4.2GB
if heads are 16 - can use workaround parameters. Although the
value for drive capacity in CMOS setup will wrap around, the drive
can be seen correctly by FDISK.

All of these BIOSes have the Year 2000 date rollover problem except
revision 11, which appears to have been released just to fix the date
rollover problem.
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ajzchips
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"ELAN" is simply a name they gave that particular board.
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Jewell
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ajzchips wrote:"ELAN" is simply a name they gave that particular board.
Thank-you all for the help. I'm following up on the advice i was given and will post back when all is done :wink: Many thanks again
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Jewell
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Jewell wrote:
ajzchips wrote:"ELAN" is simply a name they gave that particular board.
Thank-you all for the help. I'm following up on the advice i was given and will post back when all is done :wink: Many thanks again
hello all i'm back again :D i followed advice and got a upgrade for the bios. the upgrade went fine and it reconizes my 10 gb harddrive but i can't seem to get past the setup screen it shows the update info scans memory and extended memory fine then it goes to another bios screen that shows copyright 1985-98 phoenix tech has cpu ,coprocesser,system rom bios date but stops there and won't load from floppy startup disk so i can install os. it just stay there with a blinking _ i can't type in anything or boot from floppy.i'm stuck and don't know what to do can anyone please help, it took me forever to figure out how to get the drive reconized (had the jumpers set wrong) finally figured that out and now this :cry:
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NickS
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Which BIOS did you use ?
Did you clear the CMOS after flashing ?
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Jewell
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NickS wrote:Which BIOS did you use ?
Did you clear the CMOS after flashing ?
i used M5HS10 and i'm not sure what you mean about clearing the cmos
i followed the instructions and they said restart to use the new bios it didn't say anything about clearing the cmos. if i need to do that can you insruct me as to hows
thanks
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NickS
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Clearing CMOS usually involves either removing the CMOS battery or moving the position of the "Clear CMOS" jumper.

Also:
Cylinder values from 6350 to 8322 will cause lockup in CMOS setup.
Values 8323 and higher are OK. Does not work with drives over 4.2GB
if heads are 16 - can use workaround parameters.
Did you take this into account ?
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