Does anyone know the location of an archive for IWLL BIOS and drivers? I think I need to update this board to fully support my 250GB HDD, but the company is no longer around, and their site has long since closed.
There are 4 flavors here: KA266, KA266-R, KA266 plus, KA266 plus-R
And for each flavor there are different BIOSes for different model numbers.
Not sure if you can find newer BIOS for your board. I have been using this site for 2 decades and they have a quite complete collection for old hardware.
wrote:There are 4 flavors here: KA266, KA266-R, KA266 plus, KA266 plus-R And for each flavor there are different BIOSes for different […]
There are 4 flavors here: KA266, KA266-R, KA266 plus, KA266 plus-R
And for each flavor there are different BIOSes for different model numbers.
Not sure if you can find newer BIOS for your board. I have been using this site for 2 decades and they have a quite complete collection for old hardware.
Thanks, unfortunately this site doesn't work for me.... The download servers simply won't connect.
I've found one I'd like to unpack and look at to see what the release notes and whatnot say.... but unfortunately I can't download it.
http://drivers.mydrivers.com/drivers/39_15691.htm
Sorry to hear that. Is this the right BIOS?
wrote:Sorry to hear that. Is this the right BIOS?
yes thanks! I'll unpack it and see if it's gonna work with my board.
Well there wasn't really enough info in the release notes for that BIOS to gain my trust that it was the correct BIOS..... I've just accepted the probable fact that I'm probably just never going to find the correct BIOS update for this board. so I solved my issue by limiting the capacity of the drive to 136GB using Seagate Seatools
The problem I was having was that Windows XP would recognize the full capacity of the drive without any problems even though the BIOS was not seeing the full capacity and was limiting it to 136..... As I said, Windows XP had no problems *seeing* the full capacity, but because it detected that something wasn't right with the BIOS reporting it differently, it would only allow the drive to run in PIO mode..... with "blazing" transfer speeds of a WHOLE 3MB/s.
After limiting the drive in Seatools, resetting the IDE controller in XP by uninstalling/reinstalling it in device manager, and repartitioning/formatting the drive to it's new capacity, it's now working much better, with sequential reads of around 85MB/s, and sequential writes of around 30MB/s
You can use some tools like awdedit to check the texts in the BIOS.
Good suggestion, but for now, I have everything running the way I want and don't really need to seek a BIOS update until something else goes wrong 😀
