BIOS Updates forum

hi to all
im new to the forum and hopefull somebody on here can help me with a bios update.i have a p3 600 pc. i recently installed a 80 gig hard drive but the bios onle rconises it as 32 gis. i looked at the bios date and its 3 years old.i was woundering is there an update for the bios and were to find it.below is the details.

BIOS ID: 63-10B1-001169-00101111-071595-WHITNEY-1WHITNEY
OEM Sign-On: A6178O1 V1.3MR 140100
BIOS Date: 10/28/99
BIOS Type: AMI
Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810 rev 3
Super I/O: Unknown
OS: WinXP SP2
BIOS ROM Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Max: 1024 MB
CPU: Pentium III 600 Mhz MAX: 800 Mhz

thanks..
dave........

It's an OEM Microstar MS-6178 for Tiny Computer.
Hard to find BIOS support for it...

Try removing the 32GB limitation jumper from your HDD - jumper setting should be printed onto it somewhere, otherwise check manual or website.
If Bios is hanging enter HD parameters (Cyl, Head, sector; printed onto HDD) manually and enable LBA for this drive.

I have the latest release from MSI if thats any help, Vers 2.0,
dated Nov/11th/2000 according to the readme.txt that came with
the bios.

In fact, I have 9 bios's for this one all up, from vers 1.0 to 2.0. LMK
if your interested..

Flashing an OEM BIOS with a retail BIOS version can be so risky.
In fact, most of your BIOS files are intended for Award BIOS and he has an Ami BIOS.

Apparently, from what the link saved in the folder with the bios
files I have here , the 6183 is compatible, although I would flash
another chip 1st, saving your original..

And from what I have saved, version 1.8 came in both ami & award.
ami was called a6178v18.exe whilst the award version 1.8 was
called w6178v18.exe

This is a small section of the web page I saved below, that has me
wondering if the 6183 is compatible..



In fact, even the initial release from MSI themselves was an
AMI bios, then all updates preceding the original release were
award..

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/b ... 116&kind=1

KenOath wrote:And from what I have saved, version 1.8 came in both ami & award.
ami was called a6178v18.exe whilst the award version 1.8 was
called w6178v18.exe

It's a Microstar mistake. Both files contents the Award BIOS version W6178IMS.180