BIOS Updates forum

Hi!

My bios id is 09/14/1998-577+ITE8661-2A5LEH0AC-00.
So I downloaded the flasher from pcchips ( http://www.pcchips.com.tw/BIOS.html ).
It asks: do you want to save your old bios? I answer yes, and then it hangs. the program displays "Now backup bios to file". I waited about 1h.
Can somebody help me?

btw:
please don't complain about my write style, I'm from Germany.

Did you boot to a clean DOS prompt?

Hi CD9000 and welcome to another M577 owner.
Hints and tips for flashing M577:
- use a clean boot diskette with no autoexec.bat or config.sys, if you can't make one because you have ME or XP go to http://www.bootdisk.com
- make sure you can read the BIOS file from the diskette after copying it on, you don't want to find it's corrupt part way through.
- use Uniflash, available from Rainbow's site at http://www.pppr.sk/rainbow/programs.html#UniFlash
- use the patched M577 BIOS at http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ which is patched to allow the use of K6-2+/III+ with correct type speed display and disks up to 64 Gb.

I have K6-III/450 and IBM 40 Gb UDMA100 drive, using IBM Disk Feature Utility to set drive transfer rate to UDMA33.

Thx!
That's 1 reason to update my bios. Although I have an amd k6-2 500mhz the bios tells me that I have an k6-2 400mhz. But directx diag tells me the correct value.

I'll try to update my bios with the help of your links.
If it doesn't work, I'll post again.

thank you very mutch!
the new bios works. The cpu is now recognized correctly.