BIOS upgrade from Award

[griffinspc]

1)I've scounged throughout the Award BIOS upgrade site and can't find a price list anywhere for the upgrades. Has anyone bought any of their upgrade packages and know the price?

2)I'm running BIOS ver1.10, the type is; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG with a SiS 5597 rev 16 chipset. Would any of you know what the max size limit is for an EIDE drive?

I came into a Maxtor 7200 30GB DiamondMax Plus unopened and legal for $90.00. I just couldn't pass it up even if the machine I want to put it in may have the above problem.

As usual any answers will be appeciated.


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[Nick Grana]

You might try looking around here for your board: http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/biosup..._upgrades.html
Award is now Phoenix Technologies.
Good luck.




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[DrMDJ]

As Triple7's said, if you really need a bios update you should go to the system or motherboard maker's site. The bios makers themselves don't provide updates to the public.

But I think you are in luck with that bios. I'm pretty sure that version can handle that drive you got (it has a date of 1998 or later right?). You're lucky in another regard too. I don't think that bios can handle drives above 32 gig, so you just got in under the wire.

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[This message has been edited by DrMDJ (edited 04-14-2001).]

[griffinspc]

Thanks guys. I'll check the sites. The date's Feb 99 and I'm hoping it's 32 max too.

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[griffinspc]

For those maybe traveling this path someday it's interesting that before I posted my original question I typed "Award BIOS" into the search engines, Google mainly, the first hit was "Award Tech & Phoenix have merged home" and by following that link and 2 or 3 others at the top of the results you'll arrive at almost useless pages for BIOS info and updates.

Following Nick's link: http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/biosup..._upgrades.html
takes you to the same company but with great info pages and the necessary tools to get your answers. Stranger yet you can't get to the good one from the crappy one.

If you have any BIOS needs or just want to learn something, bookmark Nick's URL. I wound up reading & printing darn near the whole site and got nothing accomplished last night, my wife thanks you Nick.

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[Nick Grana]

Thank you, griffinspc. It is weird that "you can't get there from here" comes into play a lot. Good luck.

Makes one almost crazy sometimes.


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