Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-10, 12:48
IWill XA100Plus MODDED BIOS STABLE. This BIOS has been personally tested by me and it's working very well, but as always: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...
Posted on 2013-10-10, 00:33
I think at the moment the low as arrived at the Pentium 4 era machines. They can be had for next to nothing. Pentium 3 stuff is getting slowly more expensive and Core 2 Duo stuff still has value. You make a great point here and i mostly agree but some platforms were much better than others. I don't …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-10, 00:17
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: I think I will have to revisit my "Ultimate Time-Machine Project" and report about these findings... I'll be waiting. 😎 BTW, does Gateway lock up with PCI SATA controller on this board?
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:57
OMG it does. It's in the bottom right corner. I never saw it and it was there all along :dead: Will test the PCI SATA card right away with the setting on and off... http://i.imgur.com/1Pe8Rj6.jpg I'm modding that BIOS as we speak! EDIT:Removed the file as this MOD rendered the board very unstable. …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:56
Dang I'll check it out right away :) One thing about the IWill, the FDD and IDE headers have ALL the pins. So newer cables won't fit. Just a little detail. What is good about it though: FSB adjustment through BIOS! Absolutely terrific. What BIOS version have you got for this board? The one I use I …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:29
Yea quite bummed... Ordered two BIOS chips for the AOpen board. Unlike the others it uses a 2 Megabit flash chip and I don't have another one. Hopefully the board is still ok :/ EDIT: Are you sure the IWill has an ACPI setting? I'm quite sure it doesn't... Might check quickly... Latest BIOS has it …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:24
Oh well... Sorry mate. I guess for me the competition for my Gaming Machine will be between the DFI K6XV3+/66 and the IWill XA100Plus.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 23:11
F**K YEAH!!!! Finally. I bet it was MODBIN version. Awesome. Now yes, you do gotta set that Roland MPU-401 on IRQ9 and see if ACPI is still there or not. There's always the possibility they hid ACPI because it couldn't be disabled anymore.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 22:51
Here we go: ACPI Function moved to the right side of the screen.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 22:45
Ok, good sign. Don't go away yet. I'm gonna MOD it further and try to enable ACPI.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 22:27
Allright if you are willing to test, i wanna eliminate some ideas i have ATM. The next file is just an original 5AX.F4 BIOS where i only changed the BIOS message. When posting the BIOS Message should show: GA-5AX F4 BY TEX I'm also using other MODBIN version. EDIT: Notice i'm using .F4 file …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 22:10
Ahhh that's bad mate. That's how you can easily kill EEPROMS. There's other small details i can try. A slightly earlier modbin and moving ACPI feature to the right side of the screen. The IWill XAPlus does this. I doubt that this is causing the problem but we have to try it anyway.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 20:59
What we could try is rather than setting the Status to active (I noticed that the screen position clashes with another element), we could just set the two options: I noticed that from the beggining. That's why in the screen shot i posted you see there is no blank space until **PM events** That's …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 20:43
Oh I don't give up easily either :) I'm building a "blind flash" floppy that will just flash the standard 5AX.F4 BIOS and then I can test whatever files you want me to test. I tried flashing it again and it has the same issue. What we could try is rather than setting the Status to active (I noticed …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 20:09
That's what i tried to tell you. I dodn't used that editor because it does not save the changes you do to the file. I used MODBIN instead. Ah I see it now. Yes I have the same issue. Hot flashed with the original 5AX.F4 BIOS and the machine is working again :) Glad! :happy: We're back to square one …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 19:48
Adding something else i just remembered: This BIOS has a 8192 bytes Boot Block. This small boot block is never ovewritten in the flashing proccess. It only supports ISA video cards and the floppy drive. It will execute an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on a bootable diskette. Put all the files needed in the …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 19:34
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Hmm mine, saved. Just hit the save button. Can you send me your edited file? I hit the save button on mine too, but when i load it again ACPI is disabled again.
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 19:26
How about the board is it running again?
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 19:06
That's what i tried to tell you. I dodn't used that editor because it does not save the changes you do to the file. I used MODBIN instead. I recommend you that for now, you just flash the chip with the original Gigabyte F4 BIOS. Get the board online again, then we might think what went wrong. …
Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue
Posted on 2013-10-09, 18:54
OK. I can hear two types of beeps. The first type of beep is a high pitched one and i hear it as a 1 long and 2 short beeps. This indicates a problem with the video adapter. Now, i know this is weird, but a BIOS checksum error should give a different beep code. Another problem is that it is hard to …
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