blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
Hey guys... I sucessfully managed to upgrade the bios in the motherboard mentioned http://storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1322&... i found out that this board actually had 2 different version of BIOS... one was AMI and one was Award... doh!
aparently the newest AMI BIOS (which i just installed) does not support HDD's larger than 32GB and will not even detect my 40gb Cudda ATA IV... I tried manually entering the HDD params w/ no success.... If i set the 32GB clip jumper on the HDD the machine boots up instantly...
The BIOS I had on it could not be written to disk so I was unable to save it prior to flashing the "new" BIOS....
I am temporarily using a FastTrak66 controller to use the HDD, but I would like to find a copy of the NEC/Packard bell BIOS that I had on the system.
This motherboard was manuf. by MSI as a ms6156 Ver. 1.0 BX7, but was sold by Packard bell as model PB911 and was also included in some NEC "ready" series pII computers.
I have searched on NEC's, Packard bell's, and google for BIOS upgrades to this motherboard... unfortunately it has been in vain because I have not been able to secure the BIOS update. I know that PB at one time had a BIOS update on their support site because I downloaded it and installed it ~two years ago. The BIOS update I'm looking for would be for a PB911.
Does anybody know any good sites where i could find BIOS updates for this board?
Is it possible I could take the Award BIOS from the same model board and swap it with the AMI BIOS? thus allowing use of the newer BIOS revisions that MSI made for the award model boards.
Thx
aparently the newest AMI BIOS (which i just installed) does not support HDD's larger than 32GB and will not even detect my 40gb Cudda ATA IV... I tried manually entering the HDD params w/ no success.... If i set the 32GB clip jumper on the HDD the machine boots up instantly...
The BIOS I had on it could not be written to disk so I was unable to save it prior to flashing the "new" BIOS....
I am temporarily using a FastTrak66 controller to use the HDD, but I would like to find a copy of the NEC/Packard bell BIOS that I had on the system.
This motherboard was manuf. by MSI as a ms6156 Ver. 1.0 BX7, but was sold by Packard bell as model PB911 and was also included in some NEC "ready" series pII computers.
I have searched on NEC's, Packard bell's, and google for BIOS upgrades to this motherboard... unfortunately it has been in vain because I have not been able to secure the BIOS update. I know that PB at one time had a BIOS update on their support site because I downloaded it and installed it ~two years ago. The BIOS update I'm looking for would be for a PB911.
Does anybody know any good sites where i could find BIOS updates for this board?
Is it possible I could take the Award BIOS from the same model board and swap it with the AMI BIOS? thus allowing use of the newer BIOS revisions that MSI made for the award model boards.
Thx