40GB : 06/21/96-i430FX-2A59CV3NC-00
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:55 pm
Hi!
I recently bought a bunch of old S7 boards..including a PcPartner S7 i430FX board. Funny thing about this is: PcPartner site (http://www.pcpartner.com/support/bios/i430.htm#fx) says: it's a MB500N (checked the manuals for pictures, my board has 35-8212-33 silkscreened on it). BIOS available on the PcPartner site for the MB500N (same as the MP5-TRI and MB530N) is older than the BIOS on my board PcPartner: 60313, mine: 60621, also check the release date!). Flashing the BIOS from the PcPartner site makes the floppy stop working on my board (YES, i chose the correct BIOS from the archive..SMC I/O).
And now for some more funny things: although my BIOS is one of the infamous Award 4.51PG it doesn't crash on 40GB HDD detection! it displays the wrong size instead (8GB..looks like a wraparound from 32GB limit as 32GB+8GB=40GB..poor little counter ;~)).
So...if someone could please get hands on that original BIOS of mine and fix the detection bugs (32GB and 64GB if possible). I put an archive containing the BIOS filehere.
If you have any further questions feel free to contact me. And thanks in advance for your efforts!
cp
I recently bought a bunch of old S7 boards..including a PcPartner S7 i430FX board. Funny thing about this is: PcPartner site (http://www.pcpartner.com/support/bios/i430.htm#fx) says: it's a MB500N (checked the manuals for pictures, my board has 35-8212-33 silkscreened on it). BIOS available on the PcPartner site for the MB500N (same as the MP5-TRI and MB530N) is older than the BIOS on my board PcPartner: 60313, mine: 60621, also check the release date!). Flashing the BIOS from the PcPartner site makes the floppy stop working on my board (YES, i chose the correct BIOS from the archive..SMC I/O).
And now for some more funny things: although my BIOS is one of the infamous Award 4.51PG it doesn't crash on 40GB HDD detection! it displays the wrong size instead (8GB..looks like a wraparound from 32GB limit as 32GB+8GB=40GB..poor little counter ;~)).
So...if someone could please get hands on that original BIOS of mine and fix the detection bugs (32GB and 64GB if possible). I put an archive containing the BIOS filehere.
If you have any further questions feel free to contact me. And thanks in advance for your efforts!
cp