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the 40GB hdd should work fine. just leave the 400GB hdd unconfigured (set it to NONE) in the BIOS, it will be detected by the OS anyway (either XP with SP2+ or any recent Linux (-kernel) will work fine) make sure to autodetect the 40GB HDD once and set its access mode to LBA. before the installation...

patched and available on our download site. please note that it COMES WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY!
make sure you really really really know what you are doing!
and if you dared to flash it: please report back with the results. thanks.

patched and available on our download site.
please report back with the results. thank you.

Windows starts fine, but the system reboots completely after a couple of minutes. If I enter safe mode, it does not reboot. sounds very much like a driver or service related problem. completely uninstall the SIS driver and give the vesa driver a go. if the systems keeps rebooting check cpu temperat...

1920x1080 isn't possible with SiS' Windows drivers. the updated BIOS just allows 1440x900 (1680x1050 should work but there are some reports that it doesn't). buy a pci/agp/pcie vga card or switch over to Linux with its 3rd party driver that allows you to set virtually any resolution you can imagine.

patched and available on our download site. check the sticky thread in this section for more information. just to make sure you understood: after flashing the bios the main LCD will stay black. only the external vga connector will output a valid signal.
please report back with the results. thanks.

bios patched and available on our download page. please check the sticky thread in this section.
report back with the results. thanks!

you can remove the VGA, too. but then you can't 'see' the machine booting or change any bios settings unless you add a agp/pci vga card or flash a bios which includes the VGA module again. maybe the OS drivers can initialize the VGA chip so it can be used once the OS is loaded. but that's just pure ...

There's no such thing like a VGA (15 pin SubD) to HDMI cable because - as you already found out - their signals are incompatible. You can however get a converter box to convert the analog VGA signals to digital HDMI signals. Those boxes start at around 30EUR but the quality of the converted signal w...

if you attach the 80GB hdd to the add-on pci card your BIOS related issues are none since the pci card has its own BIOS which is not affected by a 32GB/64GB detection bug. just make sure you have the latest Highpoint BIOS installed on that card. still i really recommend migrating to Windows XP (or a...

if you install W2K make sure to have at least SP4 installed. it'll support LBA and large HDDs without any BIOS modifications (and updates).

patched and available on out download page. enjoy and post back with the results
thx!

The CPU initialization routines are not in the microcode updates. They are code blocks themselves somewhere in the BIOS. You have to disassemble the BIOS, find the correct routines (manageable) and flip the right bits. The last could be a bit difficult since you need NDA-ified CPU register documents...

consider moving to a more recent OS like at least Windows XP or any recent Linux since they support large HDD sizes out of the box even if the BIOS does not. if you migrate then you don't need a bios update. if you have to stay with Windows 98 you'll need all >64GB patches for Windows 98 and a patch...

1440x900 should work fine. we've many reports that say so.