I have a couple of IGEL WinNet III (the marking on the motherboard is MB-5BLMP) but they come from a company that modified the bios and removed the possibility to access it by pressing DEL or Ctrl-Alt-Esc.
I've tried without success
removing the DOC2000 chip
attaching a regular hard drive with DOS installed. Result: no boot device present
pressing every key combination
dumping the original bios and looking at it with ModBin/CBROM - no way to re-enable the "del" key
compiling different versions of coreboot + seabios from when it had still support from this board. Result: coreboot and seabios do start, the video gets initialized, but it gets stuck while trying to find/booting the hard drive
Since I'm running out of options short of decompiling and patching the original BIOS, which is not worth it... does anyone have the same motherboard, and if so could you send me a dump of your bios?
I can't can't help with BIOS flashing or editing, but I would try two more things before going that route.
1) Change amount of ram (similar to removing the DOM, trying to have the bios detect a change)
2) Remove battery? Most bios that lose settings completely will prompt to enter bios and do initial setup.
Thanks a lot, I'm gonna try it right now and let you know!
I use Uniflash 2 for the record, but since I can't get it running on the machine itself (I can't boot it) I power up a different PC with the same BIOS chip, once in DOS I remove the original BIOS and put the one from IGEL to be read/flashed... it's a convoluted process that requires a somewhat steady hand 😀
as for changing the amount of RAM and/or removing battery to reset the CMOS, I did do that too, but forgot to add them to the list...
Sure, I've added them to archive.org. including yours: https://archive.org/details/asi-5BLMP-bios
Let me know if you want your BIOS removed or at least if I should remove your nickname.
This is the content of your BIOS according to CBROM:
1CBROM V6.06 (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved. 2 3 ******** IGELWB~1.BIN BIOS component ******** 4 5 No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name 6================================================================================ 7 0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)13C28h(79.04K)original.tmp 8 1. Other(4100:0000) 04E20h(19.53K)033DBh(12.96K)awardext.rom 9 2. VGA ROM[1] 08000h(32.00K)04242h(16.56K)gxvideo.209 10 3. VSA driver 20000h(128.00K)09B05h(38.75K)GXM55306.LM4 11 4. PCI driver[A] 0D000h(52.00K)07DA5h(31.41K)V211.lom 12 5. LOGO BitMap 2583Ch(150.06K)00193h(0.39K)cmc_ph~2.bmp 13 14 Total compress code space = 33C28h(207.04K) 15 Total compressed code size = 2CC82h(179.13K) 16 Remain compress code space = 06FA6h(27.91K) 17 18 ** Micro Code Information ** 19Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID 20------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
Here the BIOS for one of my thinclients, you can see that some of the included ROMs are different (e.g. VSA driver):
1CBROM V6.06 (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved. 2 3 ******** NODEL1.BIN BIOS component ******** 4 5 No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name 6================================================================================ 7 0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)12BCCh(74.95K)original.tmp 8 1. Other(4100:0000) 04DF0h(19.48K)033A6h(12.91K)awardext.rom 9 2. VSA driver 20000h(128.00K)095B6h(37.43K)GXM55305.LM4 10 3. VGA ROM[1] 08000h(32.00K)04254h(16.58K)gxiv.209 11 4. PCI driver[A] 08800h(34.00K)053B8h(20.93K)rtspxe_m.lom 12 13 Total compress code space = 32BCCh(202.95K) 14 Total compressed code size = 28B34h(162.80K) 15 Remain compress code space = 0A098h(40.15K) 16 17 ** Micro Code Information ** 18Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID 19------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
Here is the other one. Should be exactly the same with an added logo that covers the POST:
1CBROM V6.06 (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved. 2 3 ******** NODEL2.BIN BIOS component ******** 4 5 No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name 6================================================================================ 7 0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)12BCCh(74.95K)original.tmp 8 1. Other(4100:0000) 04DF0h(19.48K)033A6h(12.91K)awardext.rom 9 2. VSA driver 20000h(128.00K)095B6h(37.43K)GXM55305.LM4 10 3. VGA ROM[1] 08000h(32.00K)04254h(16.58K)gxiv.209 11 4. LOGO BitMap 2583Ch(150.06K)0202Bh(8.04K)1primo.bmp 12 13 Total compress code space = 32BCCh(202.95K) 14 Total compressed code size = 257A7h(149.91K) 15 Remain compress code space = 0D425h(53.04K) 16 17 ** Micro Code Information ** 18Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID 19------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
The text inside the rom is "Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG" for all of them, but yours has the strings "03/21/2002-GXm-Cx5530A-2A434A3EC-00", "5BLGP VER:5.06.13" and "2A434A3E". Mine have "11/04/1999-GXm-Cx5530-2A434A3DC-00", "5BLMP Ver:0.9P 11/16/1999", "2A434A3D", suggesting they are a couple of years older.
Thanks! By the way I found that the DOC and IDE conflict with each other so you'll have to remove the chip if you want to use IDE. Also thanks for removing the stupid logo, I will flash that one onto my machine too
Hi Lex-, I dumped the whole chip with an external SPI flasher and used AMIBCP to make the BIOS show all settings that were previously hidden. AMI BIOSes are pretty easy to "unlock" as long as the settings are there and hidden.
Your Igel H830 probably has an Insyde BIOS, the same tools sadly don't work for it.
There are some tools for changing hidden Insyde BIOS settings but they are very limited and changing them cannot be done using the BIOS GUI.