[clug] Help - Asus i440BX BIOS?

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

ASUS support at
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P2B-DS&Type=All&SLanguage=en-us

have version 1.013

HTH

grail at goldweb.com.au wrote:
> 
> I'm at my wit's end... I have a dual processor (socket 7) motherboard,
> made by Asus, with the Intel i440BX chipset.
> 
> The BIOS only identifies itself as 07/16/99 i440BX-P2B-DS
> 
> Does anyone have a more recent BIOS available (or can you point me to a
> link to the BIOS) for this motherboard?
> 
> I don't know what's happened in the last year or so, but it seems that the
> only sites supplying Award BIOS updates want me to pay for them to burn
> the BIOS to a ROM and ship it out to me - what's the deal with that?
> 
> As a side note, the reason I want to upgrade is because
> 1) The BIOS crashes when trying to autodetect my 80GB HDD
> 2) The BIOS crashes when I try to manually configure the C/H/S for the
> drive (as in, when I type the numbers in, the hardware locks up
> completely!)
> 3) I can't get UDMA to work in any way shape or form (easiest thing to
> explain: "using_dma" setting doesn't stick) - I haven't managed to fry my
> hardware using hdparm yet, but I'm trying really hard!
> 
> Does anyone still sell dual processor socket 7 motherboards?  Guess that's
> one option...
> 
> Regards
> Alex Satrapa

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