Abit PN5 Flash Problems
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:41 pm
Hy
First sorry for my bad English. Long Time ago I had it in school. I hope you understand what i want to say and perhaps you are so friendly and help me.
Ok I have an old Abit PN5 Motherboard and now I want to use it for an MP3-PC. But the Motherboard has a problem to identify my harddisk right.
It´s a 40 GB Harddisk and it only show 8GB to me.
So i want to update the bios, because the latest bios should identify Hardisks bigger than 10GB.
So i download the bin file from the internet an tried to update with the awdflash tool v8.xx but it alwyas shows unknown flash type.
After i searched a long time in the internet i found a solution. I should use an older flash tool. So I tried it with v6.22. There ist no longer warning of unknwon flash type, but when i say ok to programm the bios it stops directly and write: "Erase CHIP Fail!"
This happens with all kind of versions for this motherboard.
so i should be a general problem.
I searched all over the mainboard and controlled all jumpers
and looked everywhere in the bios. but there is nothing to protect the bios. So i can´t unprotect it, if it is protect.
How can I identify an Bios that i can´t update?
There ist a Printing at the bioschip:
Award Software Inc 1995
All Rights Reserved
PCI/PNP 586
sn:042916615 V______
The Bios Flash Tool says:
Flash Type - 28F010/12V
The Bios ID when I boot the PC:
08/19/96-i430HX-2A59FA1CC-OJ
I tried to update the Bios :
pn59u.bin;pn5f6.bin; and so on
Perhaps you could give me a solution for that Problem.
2 Months ago I asked the Abit Service what this is for a Problem (not realy the same Problem, but similar). The Abit Service from Europe were not able to answer, because the board is to old and said they have sent this question to Taiwan but until today there isn´t an answer.
thank you
Oetsch
First sorry for my bad English. Long Time ago I had it in school. I hope you understand what i want to say and perhaps you are so friendly and help me.
Ok I have an old Abit PN5 Motherboard and now I want to use it for an MP3-PC. But the Motherboard has a problem to identify my harddisk right.
It´s a 40 GB Harddisk and it only show 8GB to me.
So i want to update the bios, because the latest bios should identify Hardisks bigger than 10GB.
So i download the bin file from the internet an tried to update with the awdflash tool v8.xx but it alwyas shows unknown flash type.
After i searched a long time in the internet i found a solution. I should use an older flash tool. So I tried it with v6.22. There ist no longer warning of unknwon flash type, but when i say ok to programm the bios it stops directly and write: "Erase CHIP Fail!"
This happens with all kind of versions for this motherboard.
so i should be a general problem.
I searched all over the mainboard and controlled all jumpers
and looked everywhere in the bios. but there is nothing to protect the bios. So i can´t unprotect it, if it is protect.
How can I identify an Bios that i can´t update?
There ist a Printing at the bioschip:
Award Software Inc 1995
All Rights Reserved
PCI/PNP 586
sn:042916615 V______
The Bios Flash Tool says:
Flash Type - 28F010/12V
The Bios ID when I boot the PC:
08/19/96-i430HX-2A59FA1CC-OJ
I tried to update the Bios :
pn59u.bin;pn5f6.bin; and so on
Perhaps you could give me a solution for that Problem.
2 Months ago I asked the Abit Service what this is for a Problem (not realy the same Problem, but similar). The Abit Service from Europe were not able to answer, because the board is to old and said they have sent this question to Taiwan but until today there isn´t an answer.
thank you
Oetsch