BIOS Updates forum

You're doing something very wrong if you're really having this problem. A sane businessman will always make sure he either gets paid or can reclaim his wares otherwise. I have devised and used such hardware (not in BIOS) that disables the computer after a certain amount of time. This was when I had ...

Well, I tried that as well. Perhaps I'm an idiot, but that didn't work out either. Maybe these cards can't boot for themselves? It appears they need drivers to work well? The card I've tried is a CMD649, it has a ROM chip onboard. I know that the 13GB WD works and that the cables are all OK. I reall...

I have this really old AST computer and a non recognized 13GB hard drive from WD. The BIOS appears to be AST's own, but upon closer examination turns out to be a customised Award BIOS. AST distributes BIOS upgrades by downloadable floppy images. There seems to be just one single big file that takes ...

Found it here:

http://www.linuxbios.org/index.html

Thanks for the pointer.


Dick

The link doesn't work?
Got another one?

Is there some way to make the BIOS output it's POST messages to a serial terminal? Say a VT52 or VT100? Also is it possible to get into the BIOS setup through such a terminal? Has someone considered a hack to do this? This would of course be for the benefit of using a headless Linux or Unix server. ...