BIOS Updates forum

KachiWachi wrote:Use the NIC for what it was designed for...networking!!

Agreed.

soupy wrote:Oh, and just for future reference, your cable modem should be plugged into a NIC, not your USB port.

there are USB cable modems ya know

Well I have no problems whatsoever with booting from the HD with AMI BIOS...

Denniss wrote:What has been the problem with the Award Bios you tested ?

Couldn't boot from the HD. It gave me a "no active partition found" error...

The CPU and RAM slots are horizontal? Hmm... the only Slot1 boad I've seen with a horizontal CPU slot is the ATC-6150 Baby AT board

Have to check with the board owner. I'm helping him out with identifying it as he's looking for a BIOS upgrade.

A google search gave that it's a EPoX EP-LXA-M, but closer investigation came up with a few other boards that also match this ID string. Any help?

AMI bios is not patchable yet . Try the very latest Bios and enter HDD parameters naually + activate LBA The only other chance is crossflashing to Award Bios but you have to Clear CMOS and load Setup defaults in Bios after flashing . Or get a PCI Add-In Controller card Damn :? Well i'll see what I ...

I noticed there are BIOS HD fixes for the MS-6117 mobo with Award BIOS. I tried them on my mobo but none of them worked properly. The latest AMIBIOS version for this board (ver. 2.0) can be found here: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=309&kind=1 scroll down on th...

I found this one:

http://www.roko.goe.net/ftp/utilities/w ... MART-Tool/



Seems like a nice SMART utility to me. I'm gonna install it on my server.

edwin wrote:Let's try the TK8881 FA20 then
http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/adi/tk8881/TK8881man.html

Nope. That's not the one either...


Damnit, I MUST get a picture of mine...

no.



I can probably take a picture of it, but not now. As soon as I can borrow, my bro's digital camera I'll get one.

QDI and Zida, yes... but I've never heard about Pine...

Ok, here's the BIOS ID for the pentium mobo:

51-0300-428021-00101111-101094-TRITON-H




Intel Triton. w00t

wsw243 wrote: what you mean by AFAIK?

AFAIK = AS Far As I Know