BIOS Updates forum

I used to work for Acer several years ago and that time the best public place to get all bios updates etc. was from ftp.acer.de but it seems to have only images of products. Unfortunately the plant I used to work at has been closed so I cannot get any inside stuff from Acer anymore as no-one I know ...

It's not worth spending 30$ for a Bios on such an old board. Better try to buy a cheap used board with CPU young anough to support bigger HDD. Well, the problem here is that I'm building an MP3 player from an old multimedia PC and using a modern mainboard would mean I have to find a really small PS...

Reason for upgrade is to enable larger harddrives. The limit at the moment is around 8 Gb.

Bios Agent crashed the computer so here's the output from the DOS version. The machine is Olivetti Envision P75, bios version 2.06: Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003 BIOS Date: 08/25/94 BIOS Type: American Megatrends BIOS ID: 51-0200-000000-11111111-082594-VLSI Chipset: VLSI VL82C...

I am thinking about buying a bios update from eSupport for $29.95 and I would like to know if it is worth it or not. Do the updates work? Am I really going to be able to use bigger harddrives than the 8 Gig drives the machine supports now?

If you have any experiences, good or bad, please reply.

Amideco enables me to decompress the bios but are there any tools I could edit the bios with?

Thanks, you can send it to my email address.

Hello, I have a very old amibios dated 08/25/94 and I am trying to find a version of Amibcp that could open the file. I know that older versions of Amibcp exist just that I haven't been able to find the anywhere on the net. So if anyone has any info where to get Amibcp versions 1.4 to 5.11, please l...