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40GB: Abit IT5H Rev 1.01
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 5:34 pm
by peace
Here's the BIOS image on Abit's site:
http://fae.abit.com.tw/download/bios/it5h/old/
The latest BIOS revision is >> it5h9r.exe <<
To the l33t BIOS hacking experts: Is there an online guide for hacking the Award BIOS to support >32GB drives? I've some programming experience and would be happy to help Rainbow & co fix BIOS's
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:32 pm
by Rainbow
What's your current BIOS ID string?
9R BIOS:
01/21/98-i430HX-2A59FA1DC-9R
GREEN PCI/ISA SYSTEM
There's also CR BIOS:
01/21/98-i430HX-2A59FA1DC-CR
GREEN PCI/ISA SYSTEM
The date is the same but the revision seems to be newer
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:53 pm
by peace
Oddly, mine has a CS BIOS:
01/21/98-i430HX-ALi5123-2A59FA1EC-CS
( yes, the date string is still 1/21/98 ! )
Looking at the "index.txt" file, there's a revision named "it5h5cs.exe", which is probably the one that's on my board. Now that I think about it, I recall that CS was the latest rev released by Abit. Unfortunately, it's not on the Abit FAE support site. I can extract the image and send it to you, if you'd like. Send me your email address or a site to upload to.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:26 am
by edwin
see that email button under Rainbow's posting? That is a valid email addy.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 4:22 pm
by peace
edwin wrote:see that email button under Rainbow's posting? That is a valid email addy.
Yes, fair enough. I didn't want to assume that I could send big binary attachments to that email account. No good pissing him off by overflowing his mailbox
But since you think it's ok, I'll give it a try.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 9:47 pm
by Rainbow
What board revision do you have? Hope that it's printed somewhere on it.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 9:52 pm
by peace
Rainbow wrote:What board revision do you have? Hope that it's printed somewhere on it.
Rev 1.01, same as the topic header. The BIOS image that I sent you was taken straight from the board.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:53 am
by peace
No replies from Rainbow
Guess he's too busy or can't get it working.
But good news nonetheless! I tried apple_rom's Bios Patcher utility which works great. He was even kind enough to explain the divide-by-zero overflow which causes the problem. Anyway, his cool app automatically patches the 32GB & 64GB HD size bugs and fixes the CPU tables for Celeron/P3 too! Send him a msg if you'd like to try it out, or I can send it your way too.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:47 am
by NickS
Thanks, we do know about apple_rom's patcher and some of us have tried it on a couple of things. It hasn't worked on everything I tried but it looks like a useful addition to the toolkit.
