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There are are multiple hardware revs of the IT5h board: 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0. You _must_ use the BIOS that matches your rev board. I believe the 1.0 & 1.5 revs use the same BIOS, but make sure of that yourself. The 2.0 BIOS is definitely different from the others.

No replies from Rainbow :( Guess he's too busy or can't get it working.

But good news nonetheless! I tried apple_rom's Bios Patcher utility which works great. He was even kind enough to explain the divide-by-zero overflow which causes the problem. Anyway, his cool app automatically patches the 32GB ...

I didn't change the chip, I only wanted to upgrade the bios and I used BCM's upgrade software.
Programmer tells me now that he had trouble erasing the chip.
Any ideas?
Joe

Some of the cheaper flash ROMs, especially MX (Macronix) chips have very limited reprogramming cycles. It sounds like the ...

I have a number of 1, 2 and 4 Mbit Flash ROMs available (DIP package). I am selling them for $16 each including programming and shipping. Specify the ROM image that you want programmed.

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Rainbow wrote:What board revision do you have? Hope that it's printed somewhere on it.

Rev 1.01, same as the topic header. The BIOS image that I sent you was taken straight from the board.

edwin wrote:see that email button under Rainbow's posting? That is a valid email addy.

Yes, fair enough. I didn't want to assume that I could send big binary attachments to that email account. No good pissing him off by overflowing his mailbox
But since you think it's ok, I'll give it a try.

Oddly, mine has a CS BIOS:
01/21/98-i430HX-ALi5123-2A59FA1EC-CS

( yes, the date string is still 1/21/98 ! )

Looking at the "index.txt" file, there's a revision named "it5h5cs.exe", which is probably the one that's on my board. Now that I think about it, I recall that CS was the latest rev ...

Here's the BIOS image on Abit's site:
http://fae.abit.com.tw/download/bios/it5h/old/

The latest BIOS revision is >> it5h9r.exe <<

To the l33t BIOS hacking experts: Is there an online guide for hacking the Award BIOS to support >32GB drives? I've some programming experience and would be happy to ...