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I have the 1001E-03 ACPI BIOS. It is not newer than the 0112e-01 BIOS. They both have the same core date and are practically identical. The main difference is that the 1001E-03 BIOS has ACPI support, but no build-in SCSI support. I can patch either BIOS. Which one do you like? :) BiosMan. P.S. Do no...

apoorva, I have been looking into this and this BIOS is indeed limited to 32GB. To be able to use the 80GB drive, both the 32GB and the 64GB bug have to be fixed. The 32GB bug is easy, but the 64GB bug requires more work. I will continue on this BIOS after the weekend and report back if I have a sol...

The testing of both the K6+ patch and the "nice" 128GB patch is completed, and this SP97-V 0109V_J2 BIOS is now available for download from my k6plus page via the link below.

Thanks everybody who participated in testing this BIOS.

BiosMan

Hi Basteldoc and Georgep,

Thank you both for testing this new TX97-XE patch! I'm pleased it works well.
I have put this 0112XEJ2 BIOS on my k6plus page, so its now available for download via the link below.

BiosMan.

TheAncient,
Oke, this 0204 BIOS can take the 'nice' 128GB patch. I can do this at the bigging of next week, and report back here.

Janpopan,
I will send you a copy of this TVP4 BIOS for placement on your site.

BiosMan.

Rainbow,

Can you send me that newer 6esa2 BIOS? I will see what I can do with it.
Being from 08/99 it may already have 128GB support.

Jan.

Hi Basteldoc,

Your timing is perfect.
I have just completed the 0112xe-1 patch J.2 BIOS for the TX97-XE that supports IDE drives upto 128GB! Send me an e-mail and I will send you the BIOS. Your can find my e-mail address on my homepage via the link below.

Jan.

I've found that all Award BIOSes dated July 1994 or later correctly support the LBA assisted translation up to the 8 GB limit. There is however a bug in the BIOSes dated before January 1996 that limits the harddisk size display, on the BIOS Setup and boot screens, to 2015 MB. Whenever a drive is 201...

Nick, The 32GB bugfix I do is the same 15 bytes patch from Petr Soucek, that is also used by Rainbow. You can find the details in one of the treads on this forum. On most BIOSes, this bugfix will allow IDE drives upto 64GB. When the drive is larger than 65535MB, another bug will hang the BIOS when i...

I never patched an IBM or Acer BIOS before so I wouldn't know how the CPU recognition is done in this BIOS. But you should be able to get the K6+ running by starting with a x3 multiplier setting. After bootup you can then increase the multiplier and enable Write-Allocation with a utility like CTU. Y...

AmenophisIII,

Thanks for the feedback! I'm pleased it works well.
When the testing of the K6plus patch is finished, I will put this BIOS on my
k6plus page.

Greetings,
Jan.

AmenophisIII, I'm presently working on a fix that will also remove the 64GB limit in the SP97-V BIOS. I expect to have it ready for testing in a day or 2. This patch is based on the latest 0109v-5 BIOS and will have both K6-2+/-III+ and IDE harddisk support upto 128GB. Please sent me an e-mail and I...