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40GB:10/12/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:47 am
by jsurgeson
Hi
Need a bin file to flash my bios to overcome 32gb limit
can anyone please help as I am unable to find anyone who has a download.
Award Modular Bios V4.51PG
Pentium PCI/ISA System Bios Ver 1.06 (#2036)
10/12/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
Thanks
Jeff
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:07 pm
by NickS
Can you save your present BIOS using the Award flasher, zip and email it ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:52 pm
by NickS
Update: Jeff's BIOS is dated later than the Packard Bell PB850 (FR500) 2.06 so I have patched and posted that. Both are 256KB (2Mb).
Details:
From PB website, version 2.06 for revs B and D ??
06/15/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5EC-00
rev:00.02.06
From Jeff's BIOS
10/21/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
PENTIUM PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VERSION:1.06 (#20636)
It would be interesting to see if Jeff can find a PCB revision.
@Jeff: also, do you have the CPU jumpers J5 and J6 or not ?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:39 pm
by jsurgeson
NickS wrote:Update: Jeff's BIOS is dated later than the Packard Bell PB850 (FR500) 2.06 so I have patched and posted that. Both are 256KB (2Mb).
Details:
From PB website, version 2.06 for revs B and D ??
06/15/98-SiS-5598-W877F-2A5IIG5EC-00
rev:00.02.06
From Jeff's BIOS
10/21/1998-SiS-5598-W877-2A5IIG5EC-00
PENTIUM PCI/ISA SYSTEM BIOS VERSION:1.06 (#20636)
It would be interesting to see if Jeff can find a PCB revision.
@Jeff: also, do you have the CPU jumpers J5 and J6 or not ?
Hi Nick thanks again
The sticker between the SiS chip and jp24 is D04, I have a jp4 (enable/disable vga) but cant find a jp5
Jeff
Thanks!
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:27 pm
by jsurgeson
Nick
Thanks the patch appears to work, the bios does not hang at hd detection and sees the 40gb maxtor drive now without the caplimit jp
I am however installing linux and the setup hangs with a kernel panic because it does not like the hd.
i have had this before when the partitions and formating is not right.
Where can I get fdisk/mbr from?
Jeff
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:42 am
by NickS
fdisk should be on a bootdisk - try
www.bootdisk.com. The other ways to trash the MBR include a small program entered via DOS debug which is somewhere on this site, or maybe IBM's
Zap.exe; this zeros first 128 sectors of the HDD, which is probably the same thing.[edit]
Either of these should wipe out disc overlay software, but it will not reset the capacity reporting.
