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>Has anyone tried this ?
256Mbx2 on i430VX as 64Mbx2=128Mb work more than year.
By the way, I already have solved this problem (support 64/128Mbit devices) for mobos on VIA VPX (and "higher") chipset with not support 64/128Mbit devices in BIOS (see only 1/4 RAM).

>Any idea, what's wrong?
Gigabyte
http://rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm

>If anyone happens to know the address of the IDE controller
??? What about "standart" 17x/1Fx + 376/3F6?
p.s. http://rom.by/doki/SB_686b.rar (page 74 and 87;))

Do you mean you don't change the original Bios but add some files that are executed at startup to patch the Bios/Bios modules on-the fly ?

Absolutely truly.

>So now what are the other two modules for...modul.tmp and start.tmp
It also is result of work of the program. (i.e. NOTHING changes, and these modules ARE ONLY ADDED)
modul.tmp is the file containing all changes.
start.tmp is a starting modul.

>I wasn't sure about the NCR - I thought in some BIOSes the NCR module is used for ATA drives.
ONLY if you have NCR-SCSI-adaptor without onboard-BIOS.

>(old_P3) 2. : MB can't do - lol !! ...etc BIOS Patcher is "universal" utilite for adding support all CPUs - from K6-2 to P4/Celeron and AMD Athlon T-bred/Barton. >(cpu_names) 1. : -> CPU Designations, New CPU's ?? Yes - "new"-CPUs support (old_P3) 2. : MB can't do - lol !! fixing old-style display ...

> On my BIOS, apple_rom's utility could not find the section that needed to be fixed for the "big" hard drive support. > 04/11/ 00 -VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEPA9C-00 All bioses since 2000year should support the "big"-disks initially. The "known" companies - since one summer of 1999. To tell the truth, some...

>Aha, so it is more or less the same utility as we have then... As to it is practically same (and in what there can be differences if not to adding "new" int13h). And about the program (BIOS Patcher) I have written not with a view of self-advertisement, and with the purpose to tell about the "automa...

try this - http://rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm
Only I have overlooked to write, that patcher supports UDMA-fixing (HDD UDMA66/100/133 on only_UDMA33_MB)

> trying to patch ABit PH5 BIOS
Thanks for "bug-report". fixed - http://rom.by/Award/patcher/bp-4rc8.rar
It`s very-old P1 BIOS, which can`t working with HDD>8Gb. BIOS_Patcher can`t add "big"-HDD Support for MB support only HDD<8Gb (must be >8Gb)

>Have seen this on P3B-F too
P3B-F have "old" 4.5x-"format" with "Phoenix" (Award6.x) Setup Client.

Asus have a "non-standart" bios-parts format (since CUSL/TUSL began). "Standart"-format (Award 6.x) have one byte CRC after "original.tmp" and one byte CRC at adress 37FFF (or another - in order of Size_of_flash, this - usually for 2Mbit-flash) - for all stayed place (and files). Since CUSL/TUSL Asu...

http://rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm BIOS_Patcher was tested with hundreds MB (without exaggeration), including with HDD 120Gb. You can ask me about patcher - i shall try to answer here. p.s. sorry for my bad english. to Moderators: Please, check up my program and remove this ridiculous (terr...

>Is there any utility wich can fix problem with bad UDMA recognize? fixed - http://rom.by/Award/patcher/BP-4rc2.rar new in ver.rc2: - all HDD with UDMA>2 will detect as UDMA33 (on UDMA33_only_MB) - add K6/K6-2/K6-III/K6-2+/K6-III+ up to 500MHz with Write Allocate support... some comments: - BIOS Pat...