BIOS Updates forum

I want to upgrade my pc with a usb 2.0 PCI card on this mainboard and I can't find any information on it!

Some people on other forums say that I have to update my BIOS, but Azza site don't tell me nothing and they remind me to award site.
There they can update bios but htey want me to pay.
Is it possible, as I read in a lot of posts, to find a free update for my bios?
Thanks a lot to who'll answer!!!
ierevan

These are characteristics of my bios:

Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.5
BIOS Date: 07/06/01
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 07/06/2001-601-686B-6A6LIP89C
BIOS Eval: 07/06 601BMW FOR 601AM/AS/BM/BM4/BS4 (Y2K READY)
Chipset: VIA 82C601 rev 5
Superio: VIA 686 rev 64 found at port 7h

These are characteristics of MB:

Sistem
Productor : VIA Technologies, Inc.
Model : VT8601
ID : FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF

Mainboard
Support MP : No
Model : 601-686A

Chipset 1
Modello : VIA Technologies Inc VT8601 Apollo PLE133 CPU to PCI Bridge
Bus : ISA AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Velocità Front Side Bus (FSB) : 1x 100MHz (100MHz vel. dati)
Velocità Massima FSB/Velocità Massima Memoria : 1x 133MHz / 1x 133MHz
Ampiezza : 64-bit
Stadi Pipeline I/O : Richieste 4

No need to update Bios as an additional USB2.0 card is just a normal PCI card .
Only drivers or recent serviepacks for your OS are required .

Denniss wrote:No need to update Bios as an additional USB2.0 card is just a normal PCI card .
Only drivers or recent serviepacks for your OS are required .

Actually, I have a BIOS for my motherboard that does not properly allocate the resources needed for a USB2 card.

What DennisS suggested still holds true, soupy. Your BIOS had problems with your USB2 as it would have with, let's say, a certain PCI NIC or modem.

My thread on "BIOS Check (It's back to haunt me)" was started by me because I had two Socket 7 based PCs which both would not correctly handle a PCI VIA USB 2.0 card. One would pretend it was not there and not show it in PCI device listing. The other board had the latest BIOS but would sometimes fail to POST with the USB card present. On the first board, I was hoping the BIOS update available from Jetway would resolve the incompatibility issue, (but no successsful flash to date). I am aware with no hardware faults on either board. But I also do not know whether this is something that can be resolved with a BIOS update. (Power supply issue?).

ajzchips wrote:What DennisS suggested still holds true, soupy. Your BIOS had problems with your USB2 as it would have with, let's say, a certain PCI NIC or modem.

Sure, but the possibility remains that a BIOS update might be required for a particular card to work properly, which was the original question in the thread.

I have a gut feeling this is still the same USB 2.0 card and it's beginning to look that the USB 2.0 card is faulty. Has it ever worked in any system?

ierevan wrote:Some people on other forums say that I have to update my BIOS, but Azza site don't tell me nothing and they remind me to award site.
There they can update bios but htey want me to pay.
Is it possible, as I read in a lot of posts, to find a free update for my bios?

These are characteristics of my bios:

Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.5
BIOS Date: 07/06/01
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 07/06/2001-601-686B-6A6LIP89C
BIOS Eval: 07/06 601BMW FOR 601AM/AS/BM/BM4/BS4 (Y2K READY)
Chipset: VIA 82C601 rev 5
Superio: VIA 686 rev 64 found at port 7h


Mainboard
Support MP : No
Model : 601-686A

Hi

I have a ProTeam ( AZZA ) 601BM motherboard and I'm trying to find a bios that supports harddrives over 136Gig.

Did the OP ever find a newer BIOS version?
US$30 for a bios update really does suck - especially when you consider the cost of a new motherboard/CPU