hell no. check http://humppa.pp.fi/current_and_beta_diff.txt i did with hexcmp. they are different.
as you see from it, first file is my current and is patched to have more than that beta which has mostly empty space.
160GB: 07/12/2000-MVP3-586B-866-2A5LEQ1AC-00
Could you zip your current file, please? My firewall does not seem to like your .BIN.
BTW, do not rely completely on hex comparisons or checksums to compare BIOSes as the same BIOS will show different hex contents once installed - the DMI area gets updated, so when you save it from your own machine it will differ from the distributed version unless the hardware configuration is identical.
BTW, do not rely completely on hex comparisons or checksums to compare BIOSes as the same BIOS will show different hex contents once installed - the DMI area gets updated, so when you save it from your own machine it will differ from the distributed version unless the hardware configuration is identical.
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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OK....Your BIOS file:QDI BIOS file:This shows that it is the same BIOS. A modern BIOS will use 128KB when installed (E000-FFFF) but could be 512KB including flashy fulll-colour logo screens etc.
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D:\Hardware\qdi>..\award\cbrom201 aptiva1.bin /d
CBROM V2.01A (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved.
******** aptiva1.bin BIOS component ********
No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
===============================================================================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)1437Dh(80.87K)m1_b30a.BIN
1. XGROUP CODE 05040h(20.06K)03746h(13.82K)awardext.rom
2. VRS ROM 0225Dh(8.59K)01489h(5.13K)ANTI_VIR.BIN
3. PCI driver[A] 08000h(32.00K)04D9Dh(19.40K)ncr400.bin
4. LOGO BitMap 1D223h(116.53K)10A40h(66.56K)qdi2.bmp
Total compress code space = 3437Dh(208.87K)
Total compressed code size = 2E729h(185.79K)
Remain compress code space = 05C54h(23.08K)
** Micro Code Information **
Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID
------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------
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D:\Hardware\qdi>..\award\cbrom201 m1_b30a.bin /d
CBROM V2.01A (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved.
******** m1_b30a.bin BIOS component ********
No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)1437Dh(80.87K)m1_b30a.BIN
1. XGROUP CODE 05040h(20.06K)03746h(13.82K)awardext.rom
2. VRS ROM 0225Dh(8.59K)01489h(5.13K)ANTI_VIR.BIN
3. PCI driver[A] 08000h(32.00K)04D9Dh(19.40K)ncr400.bin
4. LOGO BitMap 1D223h(116.53K)10A40h(66.56K)qdi2.bmp
Total compress code space = 3437Dh(208.87K)
Total compressed code size = 2E729h(185.79K)
Remain compress code space = 05C54h(23.08K)
** Micro Code Information **
Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID
------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
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"