BIOS Updates forum

Liggy/Herrie over on the CDfreaks site have developed a new tool for flashing firmware to NEC and compatible DVD drives. Unfortunately, they've named the tool "UNIFLASH". The announcement is here:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=105676&page=1&pp=25

I've posted a message in that thread ...

There's a DIL32 --> PLCC32 PCB fret here:

http:/ / se-ed. net / mpu51/eprom/pdf/LCC32-2.zip

I had to make an adapter when I had a bad flash on a PLCC32 BIOS motherboard and only had DIL32 boards to hotflash with. The PCB fret linked above is a little large so you can use a stack of DIL32 sockets ...

There is a schematic for a DIL32 —> PLCC32 adapter here:

http://se-ed.net/mpu51/eprom/eprom.html#SCHPCB

The PCB is fairly big so you need to raise it to avoid obstructions like capacitors, ISA/PCI slots etc. I used a stack of DIL32 sockets.

An MS-DOS window under WinME is fine for this purpose.

(1) Under Windows, create a folder in the root (top) directory of your "C:" drive. Call it, say, "Update". Copy all the decompressed files to this folder.

(2) Open an "MS-DOS" window. This will probably show a prompt something like: "C:\blah ...

All you did when you double-clicked on the download file is unpack the files needed to create the boot disk.

Now:

(1) Open a command prompt window (still under Windows -- in XP it is under Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt).

(2) Navigate using the command prompt to the folder containing the ...

I was surprised by Rainbow's suggestion that the WinME version of IO.SYS contained a copy of HIMEM.SYS. This was because I had a WinME Startup Disk to hand and this contains HIMEM.SYS as a separate file -- I still don't understand why that should be. Anyway, I found an MS article which confirmed ...

Don't really understand why steved being told to go through the rigmarole of downloading a DOS boot image and then decompressing it to a floppy. Like Great said, generating a perfectly good DOS boot disk in XP is no more trouble than formatting a floppy. The XP boot disk IS a WinME boot disk. Better ...

Just use the latest version but make sure you get the right one -- there are LAN and non-LAN versions. There is a detailed FAQ on flashing this board here:

http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ul ... 4&t=002019

8 beeps on an AMI BIOS usually indicates a video problem. Suggest you re-seat your graphics card in case it got knocked while trying to remove the BIOS chip.

I've got one of these boards and they are pretty good once set up. But they are very fussy about the memory and PSU used. Suggest you browse the threads here:

http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=27

-- and here:

http://www.amdmb.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s ...