Bios upgrade needed(award modular bios v4.51PG)

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zorak
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I couldn' find any patches belong to this bios . I will be glad if somebody helps me.

Bios date :06/15/98
Bios ID : 06/15/1998-i440BX-SMC60X-2A69KB0BC-00
OEM sign-on :TBC0630B
Super I/O :SMC 602 rev 0 found at port 3F0h
Chipset :Intel 440BX/ZX rev 2
Bios ROM : in socket
Bios size :128 K
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Looks like Biostar M6TBC.
The latest BIOS has slightly different ID:
02/06/1999-i440BX-SMC60X-2A69KB0CC-00
TBC0208B
http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/main ... /bios.php3
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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zorak
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Yes indeed I alo found the link . But when trying to flash bios with awdflash.exe , pragram said incorect version!
What should I do?
Should I try different flasher?
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It says "incorrect version" because of the difference in ID. Is there an option to continue ?
If not, try Uniflash
zorak
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I also tried uniflash but it said that ''the proram file's part number does not match your system''

so?
What is next?
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Could be OEM version. What system is this in?
edwin/evasive

Do not assume anything

System error, strike any user to continue...
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@zorak: Uniflash has an option to go ahead even if the BIOS part no. does not match. Check the documentation for instructions.
zorak
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and uniflash also says '' Boot block mismatch ''
shold I keep on ?
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Flash the update including bootblock !!
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Denniss wrote:Flash the update including bootblock !!
@zorak....check the Uniflash documentation for how to do that; IIRC it's in the "Advanced" submenu if you're using the menu interface.
zorak
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Thanks to all who helped me with this problem.
At last I dared to flash it.And every thing goes ok.except recognizing my new 60 G HDD.
I found the problem with Seagate's disk wizard .
ıt says awrad bios V4.51 cannot detect greater than 33.8 G HDDs .
So I lımıted HDD to 32 G with its Jumper.
At last I menaged the problem.Again thanks to all...
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Did you not know we support patching Award Bios to support HDD bigger than 32/64GB ?

And you Bios was already patched to support HDD up to 64GB
http://wims.rainbow-software.org

No need to fiddle with this Diskmanager Software
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