BIOS Updates forum

If I read correctly the board you are trying to replace with came from a gateway, if so the bios is proprietary according to unicore so it has to come from gateway the intel bios won't work and the emachines bios won't work, nor can unicore write a custom bios. I'm trying to get usb boot capability ...

The bios string is GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551. The issue I'm having is this, I want to be able to boot from usb, the intel bios upgrades support it, unfortunately, since this board was an oem in a gateway machine I can't use the intel bios flash. Gateway claims that it is not possible to add t...

ok and I accept your analysis, can anybody give me any help then with the problem ie what it might be. For a recap I can boot 20 Gig drives all day long I stick a 40 in as master and it hangs in post, hangs as in stops dead and goes no further, or more accurately it hangs during autodetect of hdd we...

The board in question is Azza pt-5vmd and I'm next to postive that it was the 09/27/2000 bios update that was listed during post (I had the string written down but have lost it) I'm sorry I don't have the board, it's something I was helping a friend at school work on. The main reason I'm posting wit...

I just checked it because I wasn't able to remember all the options. I can boot from IDE 0-3, floppy, Zip- A, Zip- C, Network, CD rom and disabled. The only one that seems like it might (long shot) have a chance of working is Network. Again thanks in advance for any help.

So far I've searched Google for any available bios updates and applied them (latest is from 2002) and searched this site using terms 6vxc6-4x and in another search usb boot device. I have also contacted unicore and they have a bios update available at 59.95 which makes it prohibitive in these circum...