Please help me compare TWO Bioses...
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:49 am
Hi,
First time poster here. Here is a bit about my issue: I have an Epox 9npa Ultra board with an X2 processor, and sadly it has serious freezing issues related to high-speed USB 2.0 devices used in conjunction with the X2 processor. The only options are to disable a core of the X2 or use USB 1.1, or try and solve the mystery myself. The company Shuttle had this same exact issue with the SN25P and they solved it in their Y Bios back in August of '05.
Sadly, Epox hasn't a clue what to do, and doesn't seem to care, and that's why I am trying to solve it myself if I can. I downloaded the Y Bios and its predecessor the O Bios and also got myself CBROM 6.06, Modbin6, BIOSView 2.0, and AWDEditor. Through using CBROM, I could see some size differences in some of the BIN files, while things like the CPU microcode and dualcore abilities stayed the same. With Modbin6, I saw that nothing major was changed in the SETUPS of either BIOS, so the change must have occurred at the level of the code.
After looking at the code with a hex editor, I realized I wouldn't know what to look for, so my idea was to cut out the parts of the Y bios and put them in my Epox Bios to see whether that would work. I obviously wouldn't want to screw up my machine, so I thought I might be able to do this in Virtual PC 2004, but it wouldn't let me, nor would BIOSVIEW work as it kept telling me it couldn't open 2MBIOS.bin. I tried running BIOSVIEW in a virtual machine thinking that it had something to do with it not running in DOS mode, but got the same issue.
Basically my question is: based on the description of my problem, is there a way to view the BIOS files in an emulated environment, and if not, is there a way to figure out what Shuttle fixed in their Y Bios so I may then tell Epox what to fix?
Thanks so much,
Andrew
First time poster here. Here is a bit about my issue: I have an Epox 9npa Ultra board with an X2 processor, and sadly it has serious freezing issues related to high-speed USB 2.0 devices used in conjunction with the X2 processor. The only options are to disable a core of the X2 or use USB 1.1, or try and solve the mystery myself. The company Shuttle had this same exact issue with the SN25P and they solved it in their Y Bios back in August of '05.
Sadly, Epox hasn't a clue what to do, and doesn't seem to care, and that's why I am trying to solve it myself if I can. I downloaded the Y Bios and its predecessor the O Bios and also got myself CBROM 6.06, Modbin6, BIOSView 2.0, and AWDEditor. Through using CBROM, I could see some size differences in some of the BIN files, while things like the CPU microcode and dualcore abilities stayed the same. With Modbin6, I saw that nothing major was changed in the SETUPS of either BIOS, so the change must have occurred at the level of the code.
After looking at the code with a hex editor, I realized I wouldn't know what to look for, so my idea was to cut out the parts of the Y bios and put them in my Epox Bios to see whether that would work. I obviously wouldn't want to screw up my machine, so I thought I might be able to do this in Virtual PC 2004, but it wouldn't let me, nor would BIOSVIEW work as it kept telling me it couldn't open 2MBIOS.bin. I tried running BIOSVIEW in a virtual machine thinking that it had something to do with it not running in DOS mode, but got the same issue.
Basically my question is: based on the description of my problem, is there a way to view the BIOS files in an emulated environment, and if not, is there a way to figure out what Shuttle fixed in their Y Bios so I may then tell Epox what to fix?
Thanks so much,
Andrew
