BIOS Updates forum

If you are both desperate and hard-core, here is roughly what the manufacturer's reps' do first when faced with a dead board; You need an identical chip to the hosed BIOS chip and a chip programmer. You will need the .BIN file with the BIOS firmware. There are two ways of obtaining this; the hard wa...

After thinking about this, I ran a Uniflash backup on the bios in the laptop. This backup will open with Phoenix Bios Editor, but gives the "fixed location module information not found" message. I then ran HexCompare on the saved vs. the downloaded and got several 'differents'. I then flashed the la...

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try this for now since it looks like I can send the "SET MAX ADDRESS/EXT" again to reverse the process in the event I can modify the bios. This was my first day back at work after vacation, and I ran into one of the subcontractors who does some of our failure analys...

I have a Gateway Solo 2150 laptop that I upgraded to a 40GB harddrive then discovered that the Phoenix bios on the 440BX/ZX MB will only support 32GB. I recognizes the harddrive but when trying to install Windows or Linux, it will not boot into the OS after the installation effort. After seeing the ...