RE: upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
> Do you really want to see a 40Mb disk ? or did you mean 40 Gig ?
ah, 40gb ofcourse. Sorry for the typo and thanx for the info
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dad@texlog2.texas.rr.com [mailto:dad@texlog2.texas.rr.com]On
> Behalf Of Donald R. Spoon
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:22 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: upgrading award bios to see ide 40mb disk
>
>
> > hi,
> > does anyone know how to upgrade an award bios (so that it will see my 40mb
> > ide-drive) either via dos or under linux and a pointer to a site (other
> > then award.com) to get the necessary tools/drivers.
> >
> > Thanx for any insites.
> >
> > -----------
> > Andor Demarteau
> > linux@disnet.demon.nl
>
> I have done this several times here. I have found that the absolute
> BEST way is to visit the homepage of your MOTHERBOARD (not Award) and
> get the proper files from their tech support section. They usually have
> excellent instructions on just how to do the upgrade. The reason for
> this is that each motherboard mfg. will apply certain custom "tweaks" to
> their BIOS that they order from AWARD, and they will be the ones to have
> the "latest and greatest" changes to make their motherboards work
> properly. Most of the times I have done this, the files were under the
> tech support / downloads sections. READ, COPY, and RE-READ the install
> instruction carefully! You can really mess up the MB, if you don't
> follow the directions!!
>
> You generally have to d/l two files. The first is the new BIOS image,
> and the second is an "Awardflash" utility program that actually does the
> install of the image file. Also, it is important that you bootup into a
> minimal MSDOS environment (no extra drivers, extended memory enabled,
> etc). It is important since the flash program will use most of the
> available memory below 640K. I have found here that the "minmal dos"
> selection on the WIN ME rescue floppy will give the proper environment.
> Earlier versions of Windows were quite difficult to get going...you
> essentially had to make a "system" disk and copy over the two files
> mentioned previously....and ONLY those files!
>
> I don't know of any way to do this under Linux, although I would be
> quite happy to learn how if someone else knows.
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
>
>
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Andor Demarteau
linux@disnet.demon.nl
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