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Reply 20 of 26, by rick12373

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After some Googling I also found that awdflash should be used. There seems to be lots of different versions of awdflash. Not sure which version to use.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 21 of 26, by rick12373

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Does anybody know which version of awdflash I should use to flash the BIOS of the Lucky Star 6ABX2V motherboard? I found a list of different versions here https://www.wimsbios.com/awardflasher.jsp .

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 23 of 26, by rick12373

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

This link (in Spanish) suggests success with v8.24

https://valar.wordpress.com/2004/05/18/update-bios-6abx2v/

Wow, thank you. That was some pretty good detective work you did there. Hopefully, if real life will leave me alone for long enough I can try it today.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 24 of 26, by rick12373

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Baoran wrote:

The flash utility usually says what size your old bios is. I think it depends on capacity of your bios chip.

The flash utility does not say what size my old BIOS is. Not sure what size the BIOS chip is. If I chose the wrong one will it brick it or will I be able to just us the correct one afterwards?

Actually the guy here uses the 1Mbit BIOS to flash his. But not sure if that necessarily means that would be right for mine.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en& … -bios-6abx2v%2F

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 25 of 26, by Baoran

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rick12373 wrote:
The flash utility does not say what size my old BIOS is. Not sure what size the BIOS chip is. If I chose the wrong one will it […]
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Baoran wrote:

The flash utility usually says what size your old bios is. I think it depends on capacity of your bios chip.

The flash utility does not say what size my old BIOS is. Not sure what size the BIOS chip is. If I chose the wrong one will it brick it or will I be able to just us the correct one afterwards?

Actually the guy here uses the 1Mbit BIOS to flash his. But not sure if that necessarily means that would be right for mine.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en& … -bios-6abx2v%2F

I can't say for sure, but it is likely that bigger 2mbit would be for 6ABX2C which is newer motherboard and supports coppermine out of the box.
I would still try to find a way to find out for sure.

Reply 26 of 26, by rick12373

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I found out that it is the 1Mbit BIOS. I have found the latest official BIOS and a hacked one that is supposed to also allow support for larger drives and although they both work neither has the CPU microcode.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card