BIOS Updates forum

Hi All !! Just got this board from a friend...Biostar M5ATC Rev 1.0. Already downloaded the manual, the latest *official* BIOS, and the patched one from here, but haven't flashed it as yet. Wanted to make sure these will support this Rev. of the board. It is going to replace my girlfriend's now defu...

Hey DragonAss - I was thinking maybe you could get one of those PowerLeap CPU power adapters to allow you to use the K6/+ in your board. Was just looking into that for my M520, since a Pentium VRM for that guy seems impossible to find these days. You can get one on eBay without the CPU (I think peop...

OK...just got lucky (I think). My neighbor was going to throw out her son's old computer and asked if I wanted it...so of course I said yes. It ended up being a BioStar M5ATC. Not being familliar with this board, can I get some hints from the board on it? I already downloaded the latest manual, late...

Hmmm... Just seems interesting that all of a sudden it would fail... I'll have to look into what chips are being used for the TAG and the cache itself... In the meantime, I was able to find the core BIOS manual over at the AMI ftp site...now all I need to do is weed thru it and see if it tells me an...

I'm assuming we all took the Labor Day holiday off... Any help here?? The board has been doing some very strange things lately, especially memory-wise. Up until this week, the thing has run great at the settings I knew about...the rest were left as default. Now the thing won't boot unless I'm set at...

Hi All!! This BIOS is from my girlfriends SuperMicro P5STE (i430HX). Also at the top there is the message 0520971045 Pentium Motherboard R1.7. Board itself is dated 3/97 and is a Rev. 2 board. The BIOS is the latest from their website. More info on the board can be found here, if you are interested....

I was wondering the same thing...also to add an icon underneath...

Guess that is for moderators only??

In any case...could a list be posted of what the steps are and their respective post count to achieve them?

M520 will take the 16-chip, 32MB DIMM, or the *special 64MB* ones that AJZ has . I have SIMMS in mine...4-16MB in one and 2-32MB in the other.

Good luck on the keyboard problem!!

Anyone here a CD burner expert, or know a good tech site to surf? Having problems finalizing the session on multi-session discs for some time now... Keeping details to a minimum for now, unless the moderators give permission to examine the problem here. Please PM if you can help, e-mail on the fritz...

Gee...I forgot that one. What happens if the BIOS PM is enabled but all settings disabled, does Windows PM take over? And what if the BIOS PM is setup and Windows PM is set to disabled, who takes over? As far as CPU stepdown goes, Windows only has one step (Standby) where the BIOS has 3 (Doze, Stand...

Not really a problem per se, but more a *how does it work?*. I was wondering how the BIOS Power Management settings work in conjunction with the Win98SE Control Panel function. The AWARD BIOS (in my case) has many settings within it in order to set the various functions, including Video Off method, ...

Over the weekend I got version J3.2 with a fix for >32GB HD. The patched BIOS file loaded fine...all I have to do is borrow that 40GB from work to check it out. Problem is we just moved to a new facility 2 weeks ago, and they haven't unpacked it yet!!! :cry: Jan says if the fix works, he can also fi...

Perhaps one of the moderators can get Peter to write a short essay on all this to put into the *sticky* area, and end the confusion once and for all??

When he has the time of course...

There was a discussion of this over at the PCChips site a while back.

Peter Missel says that all *modern* BIOS's are written to be cacheable, so no matter what you set in the BIOS, they will be anyway.

Perform a search there to find the discussion in question.

Just an update for everyone - I just recieved patch #3 from Jan Steunebrink. My BIOS can now support the K6-II/III series processors. I am in process of looking for a K6-III+ 450, but I'm getting the hint I should settle for the K6-II+ 450 instead, mostly due to the cost factor. As soon as I get one...