[Ham-Computers] RE: bios flash question

Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:19:09 -0700

Hi Aaron,

Sensible suggestions, thank you.  Just happens I have an old clunker 450 PII
hanging around...I'll put that in and disable caching.  Also worthy of note
for others...this board turns out to have a dip switch that toggles the BIOS
as "programmable" or "NOT Programmable".  In this case the switch was on,
but something to tuck away for future reference.

will advise

John collins
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hsu, Aaron" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "'refmon'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 03:08 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: bios flash question

> Some boards will not work properly with a P-III until *after* the BIOS is
> updated.  Random "strangeness" can occur if you use a P-III in a board
> without support for it and you may have run into this type of situation.
In
> many cases, the systemboard won't even POST properly with a P-III until
> after the BIOS is updated.
>
> I suggest that you try using a P-II processor during the BIOS upgrade.
> Also, make sure that any "BIOS Protection" options in the CMOS settings
are
> disabled...this would prevent any type of tampering with the BIOS
(intended
> or not).  One last thing to try is to disable any system or CPU Cache -
also
> a CMOS setting.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: refmon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] bios flash question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My recent Win 98 shutdown fix is holding up rather well, thanks to all
that
> helped.
>
> I've run into an odd situation during an attempt at bios flash...I'm
> wondering if anyone else has seen or dealt with this, or may know where I
> should go:
>
> I routinely flash bios on many PC's and am familiar with procedures,
general
> risks, etc.  Case here involves Peak 6220 single board PC with the 440BX
> chipset dated circa 1998...support PII only..it takes a PIII but registers
> it as a PII.  I am using filename 6220R20B.bin, a specific bios update
> download which updates the bios with PIII support.  Instructions call for
> the usual usage of the awardflash utility...so far no problem.
>
> Here's what happens:  invoke awdflash, enter new bios file.bin name, yes
to
> backup, name backup...a backup file is made.  Yes to "are you sure you
want
> to program?" gets a checksum and an immediate "files are not the same
size"
> error and I'm dumped out of the program to the DOS prompt.  In
> experimenting, I tried the process using the file I had created as a
backup
> (this should be exactly what is already in flash), and I get the same
> message.
>
> Does anyone have the magic answer?  Is this cockpit error or oddity
perhaps
> of the specific board?
>
> thanks in advance for any info at all
>
> John Collins
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