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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:44 pm
by nonkelsue
Edwin,

I have the following BIOS which I would like to upgrade:

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AMIBIOS 1996 (American Megatrends)
AP/AX 53 R3.6 Aug 28 1996

51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX-F
Any ideas where I could find the correct update file & BIOS upgrade utility?

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Nonkel Sue

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:37 pm
by edwin
Aopen AP53 or AX53. You have made a typo in the manufacturer that should be 001770 not 001771.

http://download.aopen.com.tw/userdownlo ... Model=AP53

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:33 pm
by nonkelsue
edwin wrote:Aopen AP53 or AX53. You have made a typo in the manufacturer that should be 001770 not 001771.
I checked this again, and no, I did not make a typo. It is 001771. If you Google on this number, you will find also some hits on this number as well.
Are you sure that these are for the 001771 model?

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Nonkel Sue

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:41 pm
by cp
since
AMIBIOS 1996 (American Megatrends)
AP/AX 53 R3.6 Aug 28 1996

51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX-F
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 BIOS  	  	 R2.C0  	 11/18/1997
# 	AP53R2C0.EXE (for AP53-1) self-extracting file, included a flash utility for AMI BIOS.
#
# For M/B version AP53-3 or AX53 please use BIOS R3.60 or later.
the link edwin posted is correct.

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:46 pm
by edwin
That is really weird. The ID string found inside the rev 3.6 of this bios is
51-0411-001770-00111111-071595-82439HX-000_10_T2
AP53/AX53 R3.60 Aug.28.1996


001771 would point at SYE/Luckytech and they haven't used AMI bios since their 486 boards. Only Award. Not sure what went wrong there.

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:15 pm
by nonkelsue
edwin wrote:That is really weird. The ID string found inside the rev 3.6 of this bios is
51-0411-001770-00111111-071595-82439HX-000_10_T2
AP53/AX53 R3.60 Aug.28.1996


001771 would point at SYE/Luckytech and they haven't used AMI bios since their 486 boards. Only Award. Not sure what went wrong there.
I tried to flash that BIOS by using the most recent BIOS update I could find (AP53RSC0.EXE). After it was flashed, my CD Rom appeared to be working (could boot from it), but then suddenly the complete system froze and was dead after a cold restart... :-( The boot CD was a Smoothwall Linux (firewall) boot cd (version 2.0 - Express), which in the past I used already several times successfully.

So, the problem no longer exists... as I had to configure a complete new system to serve as Firewall... :-(

Thanks anyway to all those who replied!

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Nonkel Sue

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:08 pm
by KURIAKI
edwin wrote:That is really weird. The ID string found inside the rev 3.6 of this bios is
51-0411-001770-00111111-071595-82439HX-000_10_T2
AP53/AX53 R3.60 Aug.28.1996


001771 would point at SYE/Luckytech and they haven't used AMI bios since their 486 boards. Only Award. Not sure what went wrong there.
All the BIOS releases for AX53 (shared with AP53 model) has the same wrong code:
08/28/1996 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r360.rom AP53/AX53 R3.60 Aug.28.1996
10/02/1996 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r370.rom AP53/AX53 R3.70 Oct.02.1996
10/22/1996 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r380.rom AP53/AX53 R3.80 Oct.22.1996
12/16/1996 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r390.rom AP53/AX53 R3.90 Dec.16.1996
03/14/1997 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r3a0.rom AP53/AX53 R3.A0 Mar.14.1997
09/04/1997 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r3b0.rom AP53/AX53 R3.B0 Sep.04.1997
11/04/1997 51-0411-001771-00111111-071595-82439HX_000_10_T2 ap53r3c0.rom AP53/AX53 R3.C0 Nov.04.1997 AOpen Inc.

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:57 pm
by edwin
Ah, that is something you can seperate an AP53 and an AX53 with then. The files I have here for the AP53 which were downloaded several years ago all have the correct 001770 coding.

run K6-2-400 on Aopen AP53

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:45 am
by ie
I have a Aopen AP53 rev3.3,i430HX, socket 7,use AMI win bios,
support as low as 2.0V, so I upgrade from PMMX200 to K6-2-400
I download the newest bios,
ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/ap53r3c0.exe
ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/readme.txt
can't recognize K6-2-400,only show K5-133,
I use another pc of K6-2-400 on asus T2P4(i430HX),128edo ram as standard,it runs winxp fluently.
K6-2-400 on aopen ap53, 128edo ram run windows xp rather slow,processor always used 100%.
I run setk6v3,found that write allocation and write combination are disabled,I thought this is the reason why it is so slow.
I heared AP5K is the enhanced version of AP53,i430HX, same I/O.
I flashed bios of Aopen AP5K,it is award
ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap5k/ap5k150b.exe
the pc could still boot,
K6-2-400 showes as 486DX2-66;
but cannot detect floppy;
CDROM detected while not bootable;
but HDD boot to winxp and running very fast,simillar to K6-2 on asus T2P4setk6v3 showes write allocation enabled write combination disabled.
However,if change with another HDD,then the new HDD is not bootable.
I flash back bios between ap53 ami and ap5k award several times,
problem is the same,
ap53 too slow,
ap5k can't find floppy,can't boot from amy IDE device if changed HDD.
What can I do?
Thank you very much!

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:39 am
by Denniss
AP53 Rev 3.x should use 3.x Bios so this should be your Bios:
ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/ap53r3c0.exe

But it may not change the sluggy system performance as it seems to be of similar date as your 2C0 Bios.

It's very sad to see a good old i430HX board supporting 2.0 VCore but not receiving a somewhat recent Bios to support K6-2 CPU. Asus did the support job nearly perfect with their T2P4.

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:27 pm
by KachiWachi
Maybe Jan can take a look at this one?

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:14 pm
by ie
Denniss wrote:AP53 Rev 3.x should use 3.x Bios so this should be your Bios:
ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/ap53r3c0.exe

But it may not change the sluggy system performance as it seems to be of similar date as your 2C0 Bios.

It's very sad to see a good old i430HX board supporting 2.0 VCore but not receiving a somewhat recent Bios to support K6-2 CPU. Asus did the support job nearly perfect with their T2P4.
sorry,I made a typo,what I use is already the 3.x Bios,right from your link.I correct it to 3.0 now.
yeah, the old T2P4 runs perfectly,speed is not slower than TX97(430tx)+sdram,and much faster than newer super7 board with sis 5597/5598