Asus hosts the BIOS on their site.

You will enter Kafka land when you have done the crossflash but I can help you get through it 😀

I did this crossflash half a year ago and once through Kafka land everthing is great 😀
You will lose half of the onboard ATI Rages memory though, if I remember right that board has 4MB with the HP BIOS.

Skyscraper wrote:

Asus hosts the BIOS on their site.

You will enter Kafka land when you have done the crossflash but I can help you get through it 😀

I did this crossflash half a year ago and once through Kafka land everthing is great 😀

I never flashed a BIOS really on a old board like this. Do you have any steps?

MrEWhite wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

Asus hosts the BIOS on their site.

You will enter Kafka land when you have done the crossflash but I can help you get through it 😀

I did this crossflash half a year ago and once through Kafka land everthing is great 😀

I never flashed a BIOS really on a old board like this. Do you have any steps?

Uniflash in real DOS, no memory managers.
Save the old BIOS first, then flash the new.

Might take an hour or two, gotta get W98 installed.

Well I might not be online when you have done the crossflash so I will tell you now what you need to do.

When you have done the flash and reboot you will likely be stuck in some sort of fail safe service mode. You will not get access to the full BIOS only a few settings, if you save and reset you will only get back to the limited service mode BIOS even though you have checked that all settings you can make are correct.

You need the correct wrong setting to get through. It seems there is a mismatch between the way the BIOS thinks the motherboard should be jumpered for a certain CPU and the way this board works (even though the jumper block seems to be jumpered correctly). One of the settings you can make in the limited BIOS is to change the CPU multiplier, test random multipliers until you find the correct one. When you have found the correct wrong multiplier the board will finally post normally and give you access to the full BIOS. If you change CPU you will likely have to do this all over again, at least I had to.

I do not remember if removing the jumper block and replacing it with jumpers solved the issue but I think there were no clear instructions for jumpering the board for jumper less mode

Alright, also off topic.... The SB Link header seems to be gone, bummer.

MrEWhite wrote:

Alright, also off topic.... The SB Link header seems to be gone, bummer.

The board has ISA but no AGP, I would use it as a fast DOS box with an ISA sound card.
With a Voodoo 3 and a Coppermine ~850 it could be a nice Windows 98 system aswell but I would still use an ISA sound card.

Now after following your steps... Black screen. I think I just screwed the board over 🙁

Nvm, it's works. Needed to clear CMOS.

Of course it works 😀

Everything shoud work as normal now, even the mutiplier option shown in the BIOS is probably working correctly now, most Slot-1 CPUs are locked though.
If you find an issue you cant live with you can always go back to the HP BIOS but then you lose all overclocking/tweaking options again 😀

Skyscraper wrote:

Of course it works 😀

Everything shoud work as normal now, even the mutiplier option shown in the BIOS is probably working correctly now, most Slot-1 CPUs are locked though.
If you find an issue you cant live with can always go back to the HP BIOS but then you lose all overclocking/tweaking options again 😀

It works amazingly 😀