Columbia BX Bios Needed (ami)

[sersoft2]

I have a Seanix Columbia BX mobo and it works fine with a pII 400mhz 512ram geforce4 (agp2x)

NOTE: i found similar posts but i seem to have an AMIbios instead of AWARD.

problems:
60gb/80gb crashes in the bios
im still using it by installing XP on a 4GB, and plugging the 60GB DIRECTLY while running XP, every time (stupid huh?)
but it works ...

Problem#2:
i've got a p3 600mhz slot1 CPU id like to put in there, my friend has another motherboard(asus) with the same chipset that me, and it works for him. but for me its a whole different story,
it boots into the bios, tells me that i've got a (unknown)600mhz processor and it runs super SUPER slow mode (perhaps x386) took it 10minutes just to count my ram in post XP doesent boot at all, maybe it would after several hours but im using the p2 for now.


conclusion:
i know thats an old motherboard but im gonna have to use it for a while and want to make it better.

Someone help!

[sersoft2]

a shot of my bios with nubers and all...


if it dosent show up, copy link to adress bar..

[edwin]

61-0111-001927-00111111-071595-440BX-1440BX00
Columbia BX BIOS v. 1.2

is what I have available, but no idea of what it fixes. As for the P3-600, that may be too rich for this board. Although the 440BX chipset can handle it, the rest of the stuff on your board may not. It also depends on the implementation of the chipset. Early 440BX boards (yours is one of them) are usually limited to P2-450 and a few can handle a P3-450 but that's it.

I'll try and find more info on this thing.

[edwin]

The award bios one is the columbia iii, that's a newer model. manual for your beast is here:
http://www.seanix.com/downloads/Manuals ... manual.pdf

You may be able to find more info this way:
http://service.seanix.com/support/personal/index.asp

If that doesn't help you can always email them.

[sersoft2]

can you tell me where can I get the Columbia BX BIOS 1.2
I have 1.0 and I hope the new one fixes the hard drive crash at least.

[KURIAKI]

http://www.seanix.com/downloads/Drivers/cbx_bios.zip

[sersoft2]

http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/x1pyOKpf ... anMFCmHQzI

Well, I guess you were wrong edwin, p3,600 is not too rich for this motherboard, the bios update made it work.
I put a small heatsync on the chipset, just to feel safe.
it took me a while to understand that i had to remove all the CPU frequency jumpers on the motherboard otherwise it didn't start at all.

and believe it or not, they added pIII support but the hard drive still doesent work. it's a little better now because if i use it as a secondary drive and "hide" it from the bios(choose "not installed" in the bios setup) it works in XP.

thank you very much I should have tried the forums before

[edwin]

Well, that is something not in the manual. Good to see that was solved.

And thanks for sharing the secondary not installed trick.

[sersoft2]

thank you again i dont have any more problems with this motherboard.

but i have another problem hope someone can help me:

http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8593


Sersoft

oh and i could also try to help some other people who ask for help here
just wanna know if thats allowed

[edwin]

If you can, do so by all means. We're not gods or perfect people, we do NOT know things.