AZZA board Award Bios
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:36 am
The board in question is Azza pt-5vmd and I'm next to postive that it was the 09/27/2000 bios update that was listed during post (I had the string written down but have lost it)
I'm sorry I don't have the board, it's something I was helping a friend at school work on. The main reason I'm posting without that info is (I believe) I have enough info to see if there is a fix available at all. To start with I did research online the board manufacturers site no longer exists (ie I assume they are out of business), next I'm pretty sure that the problem is the 33.8 GB limitation as I have sucessfully booted multiple drives below that level but anything I've tried 40 GB and above hangs in post or if I go to bios in autodetect. If necessary I can get the id string again. If it is likely that there is a patch that will work for this board/bios/problem and the info is needed I will have my friend bring the machine back into school and post from there, my other option (not nearly as appealing) is to use western digitals tool to trick the bios (whatever they replaced EZ-drive with)
Thanks all in advance for any help and sorry again for the lack of info.
I'm sorry I don't have the board, it's something I was helping a friend at school work on. The main reason I'm posting without that info is (I believe) I have enough info to see if there is a fix available at all. To start with I did research online the board manufacturers site no longer exists (ie I assume they are out of business), next I'm pretty sure that the problem is the 33.8 GB limitation as I have sucessfully booted multiple drives below that level but anything I've tried 40 GB and above hangs in post or if I go to bios in autodetect. If necessary I can get the id string again. If it is likely that there is a patch that will work for this board/bios/problem and the info is needed I will have my friend bring the machine back into school and post from there, my other option (not nearly as appealing) is to use western digitals tool to trick the bios (whatever they replaced EZ-drive with)
Thanks all in advance for any help and sorry again for the lack of info.