Novice needs help!

Dave Foyer · Tue Jul 30, 2002 3:11 am

Help! My motherboard needs it's bios updated because it won't recognise my new hard drive. (Or so I'm told!) Unfortunatly I have no idea what the board is but it comes up with the following when it boots:

i440BX-W977EF-2A69KQ19C-00

Can anyone help me identify and tell me where to get a flash for the bios?

Please!!

Thanks in advance.

xiaonian · Tue Jul 30, 2002 5:49 am

u can find what u need on:
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/support/d_bx1.htm

Dave Foyer · Tue Jul 30, 2002 8:28 am

xiaonian wrote:u can find what u need on:

Thanks a lot for that, however I'm not sure whaich motherboard I have so how do I know which of the files I need to download?

Thanks for your help.

xiaonian · Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:53 am

your board is BrillianX I :
and you can use this file:
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/driver/B1_v20sl.ZIP

Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:50 pm

That's old BIOS - you need the beta for large HDDs http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/driver/Te ... U(128).zip

Dave Foyer · Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:15 pm

Rainbow

Rainbow wrote:That's old BIOS - you need the beta for large HDDs

Thanks a LOT. I downloaded the zip and extracted the files onto a floppy drive, rebooted from a boot-floppy and ran the exe file. But it then asked me what file I wanted to open. Am I going about this all wrong or what do I tell it?

Sorry to be so clueless! Your help is much appreicted.

Thanks.

Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:31 pm

You should enter the name of BIN file that was inside the ZIP.

Dave Foyer · Wed Jul 31, 2002 8:29 pm

Rainbow wrote:enter the name of BIN file

Thanks, I did so. It then asked me the name of the file to save the original at so I made up a name which it seemed happy with, and went ahead. However it ended with an error message saying

unknown flash type

and returned to the dos prompt.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:14 pm

Try another version of Awdflash or UniFlash.

P.S. Be careful, this board has PLCC chip soldered

Dave Foyer · Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:24 pm

Thanks Rainbow.
I'll go and find another version and try that. I don't know what you mean when you say my board has a PLCC chip soldered but if it doesn't work I'll just cough up buy a new motherboard. (I'm not far off that already!)

Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:30 am

Some QDI Boards have a Flash write protection in Bios - please disable to flash bios !

Dave Foyer · Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:18 am

That would explain why it doesn't work!
How do I diasable the protection?

Thanks

Thu Aug 01, 2002 10:31 am

Hmm, can't see the option in the BIOS/CMOS menu, can't see a jumper mentioned in the manual. http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/suppo ... aq0113.htmsays

Q When upgrading my bios, the system prompts 'Unknown Flash Type', why?
A This is because the bios protection QDI set in the mainboards. Normally, bios is prevented by the jumper 'JAV' and the bios setting 'flash write protect' from unintentional bios write. Therefore, before bios upgrading, locate the jumper and the bios setting and disable the protection.

so look for a jumper "JAV".

Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:21 pm

I have one BrillianX I here and there are no jumpers except for Clear CMOS. This board has SST 29EE020 PLCC chip. I flashed using UniFlash without any problems.