BIOS Updates forum

I have some further questions... :-) What is the platform.bin ? Is there a standard for how big this should be ? I've checked different updates from various mfg's, for example Acer (laptop) and Tyan (ordinary mb) and both those platform.bin's are about 1 kb. The platform.bin ($0029000.fl2) for the I...

Could this work ?

http://stderr.org/pipermail/thinkpad/20 ... 02259.html

Sincerly,

//The Swede

Hello!

I have two old IBM TP 600 2645-310 laptops that I want to update the BIOS on but the "flasher" requires AC-adapter AND charged battery. Does anyone know if you can go around this couse both my batteries are stonedead!

Sincerly,

//The Swede

Hello!

I am helping a friend with his Clevo 668 laptop. He want's to install a new harddisk (20GB) but it doesn't work allright. He has tested with "drive overlay"-software but that didn't work either.

Sincerly,

BIOS Date: 04/24/98
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PGM
BIOS ID: 04/24/98-SiS-510X/669-2A5IEACBC-00
OEM Sign-On: 97E60
Chipset: SiS 501 rev 0
Super I/O: SMC 669 rev 2 found at port 3F0h

I am going to look at all your replies tomorrow...

//The Swede

Hello!

I need a newer BIOS to this laptop with BIOS ID string 2A5IEACB, haven't found who manufactures this one (Junglenote 9700 is printed on it).

Sincerly,

//Henrik in Sweden

Hi! I have an old DEC Alpha that I am trying to get OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix working on but the SCSI-controllers I have tried are giving me troubles. I have tried different "PC" SCSI-controllers but parently the ones that work in these machines have different firmwares (written by Compaq/Digital ?) th...

Hi! A person said to me that limitations in detecting the right hdd size is an IDE-interface problem and not a BIOS problem, is he right ? If it was true I suppose that BIOS updates wouldn't help couse the problem is in the hardware (IDE-interface in the southbridge), so I think he is wrong. If he i...

Seems like ECS has removed the manuals for all the "P5"-motherboards (they had them before). If anyone can give me a url where I can find the manual or if someone can email it to me I would be happy!

Sincerly,

/Henrik in Sweden

Thanks! But it seems that my CD-ROM is too old. Couse it complains that my "hardware revision" to old when I try to update. Maybe I'll have to replace the unit with another to get 80 mins and CD-RWs to function.

Sincerly,

/Henrik

My BIOS ID string was 02/11/2000-BANISTER-2A69NC2AC-00 and the case #2 worked just fine. Now I am running Win2k and are able to shutdown the computer in the right way! Thanks a million! Now if I could only find a update for my Teac CD-224E CD-ROM so I can run 80 mins CD. I found an update in another...

Hello!

I am looking for a new Chicony MP-995 (notebook) BIOS. The one I have now (1.17) doesn't seem to support ACPI couse Win2k won't shutdown and WinXP won't install at all.

Sincerly,

/Henrik