BIOS Updates forum

Yup...those are the strings I see now. (MODBIN 4.50.60 crashed here too...) So you think I can use UniFlash to update this guy? It seems to be able to want to...if I would let it... What REALLY BOTHERS ME is that the utilities AOpen provides don't work. As an aside, they do say if you have an EEPROM...

Does have DMA support...was in the DFI...as I said in my previous response here...

Nick -

NO...their utility says *Unknown Flash Type*...

With the same BIOS, the BIOS.BIN file is built into the BIOS installer (only one executable after you unzip). So you have no choice there on that one...

TY though...

Any more thoughts??

Interesting occurance... I completely gutted this guy so I can set it up new for my girlfriend. Just have some RAM, the WD AC28400 8.4GB HD (port 1), a TORiSAN CDR_S18 (8x, port 2), and a Cirrus Logic PCI Video Card installed. Loaded Win98SE on a fresh format. BIOS set for no UDMA. Everything comes ...

OK All...

I broke down and setteled for the K6-2+...should be here by the weekend.

Full report will be posted ASAP.

Yes, they did add some feature called *EZ-Restore* which you can read about at their site... What bothers me the most is that I can't even load the currently installed BIOS version using their utility into the chip. You would think I should be able to do that (expecting no changes of course). I am h...

I'm PRETTY sure I have the right one, as I can find the currently installed version on the same page as this one...however that version won't load either. Not sure what they are doing...currently V2.20 is installed. See: http://club.aopen.com.tw/downloads/default.asp?keyword=AX6BC&Software=BIOS&sear...

OK...went to flash using UniFlash. I went with the option NOT to flash the Boot Block. UniFlash responded with a *Boot Block Mis-match* so I answered no and exited the process. I don't understand what's going on...could AOpen have locked this guy up somehow so a new BIOS image could not be loaded? A...

I was planning to do that anyway, since the Maxtor contains my swap and browser caches, in an attempt to speed things up some, until I get my final BIOS patch to 128GB from Jan.

But I don't understand why the secondary channel, with the lone CDROM on it, isn't being setup correctly?

Well, here's the story... I had originally setup the drive on my girlfriends now defunct SuperMicro P5STE with an AMI BIOS (see other post on that) and it set it up as LARGE (why I don't know). So when I moved it over to her new(er) computer (Biostar M5ATC w/ patched BIOS from here), it also seemed ...

Hi Again... I have a WD AC28400 8.4GB drive here...why would a BIOS prefer to set it up in CHS (LARGE) mode rather than in LBA mode? I mean this by using the *Auto Mode* and not using the *IDE Detection* screen, where it does pick LBA as the recommended setup. If the drive was set up in CHS, then I ...

Hi All - Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but her goes. I was fooling with a computer at work to see why the HD was running so slow and decided to test my own here at home. Using the Seagate UATA100 Utility, my machine reports this about my drives: (Sorry about the table...how do you ad...

OK...I read the chip supplies it's own VPP, but it also has a *software protected data write* feature. Perhaps this is not being disabled properly by AOpen's program. Will UniFlash execute the proper commands, since it seems to be able to see the chip for what it is, and not come up with the *Unknow...

I looked for that, but I'll look again.

UniFlash shows the chip to be a Winbond W29C020(C)/5V, yet I measured 12V on VPP...I asume the /5V means it is a 5V enabled chip...

More thoughts on why that would be??

Hey All!! I have an AOpen AX6BC motherboard here I'm trying to flash up to their latest BIOS, but it won't take. The manual does not specify a jumper needs to be set to do this. Their flasher comes back with *Unknown Flash Type*. They use their own flasher which comes up as *EZ Flash ROM Utility R1....