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Hello,

Last week-end i bought a brand new Samsung SpinPoint 80Gb HD for my old PC, but unfortunately the BIOS couldn't detect the new drive. It hangs on 'auto-detect' and so on...

Here are all the BIOS informations I've found on my PC :

Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 3.23
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 09/11/98
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 09/11/1998-SiS-5598-2A5IIAT9C-00
OEM Sign-On: TX98 BIOS Rev.F 12-SEP-1998
Chipset: SiS 5597 rev 16
Superio: ITE 8661/SiS 6801 rev 2 found at port 279h

Please can you tell me what can I do to upgrade that BIOS so that finally the new HDD can be recognized ?

Thank you !

ASK technology TX98

make a backup with awdflash

Any 6.xx or 7.xx AWARD flasher will do fine.
You can try version 6.00a from:
http://www.8ung.at/th2chips/award/index.html



awdflash /Pn /Sy TX98.bin

from a bootable floppy. send TX98.bin file to edwin@wimsbios.com or rainbow@wimsbios.com and we'll try and patch it.

Hi Edwin,

Thanks for all the help ! So I've followed your advice from your last email.
And now I've just sent the TX98 file to you as requested.

Best regards,
Arrival

And I have replied with a patched version + instructions. Let us know how it went.

Wonderful !
All is now working perfectly.

So a very big heartfelt THANK YOU to Edwin, for all his help and his patience.

Best regards,

Arrival

No problem there, thanks for the feedback, patched bios has been put online at http://wims.rainbow-software.org it might take some time before it shows up in the index page.