BurnedPinguin wrote on 2022-08-21, 11:42:
After you finish posting your entire experience with AwardBIOS, do you mind documenting all your experience with AMIBIOS? I read in this thread that you've tinkered with it a little bit as well, and I'd love it if you can document that sometime in the future.
Thanks.
Yes, that’s the plan. Although I have only a little experience patching the socket 7 AMI BIOS, I will tell what I know. 😉
The past few months I have been busy tinkering with a lot of Award socket 7 BIOSes and last night I update my “Unofficial K6-2+ / K6-III+ page”. At the beginning of the page, I added information about the Award 32GB HDD limit bug and the fixes I use in my patched BIOSes.
I developed an improved 32GB bugfix that doesn’t hang the BIOS anymore when a > 128GB drive is attached and I updated the patched BIOS for these boards with this new fix:
• Asus P55T2P4
• Asus TX97-X
• Asus TXP4
• PCChips M577
• Tyan S1564
I’ve also put newly patched BIOSes for these boards on-line. As usual, these BIOSes have both K6plus and 128GB HDD support:
• Biostar MB-8500TTD
• Chaintech 5VLM
• DFI 586ITBD
• ECS P5SD-AS
• ECS P5VX-Be
• Gigabyte GA-586T2
• PCChips M520
• PCChips M550
Then I have patched BIOSes ready for testing for these boards:
• Asus P55TP4XE(G)
• BCM FR550
• ECS P5SD-A
• Iwill XA100
• Zaapa ZP-5V
Just drop me line if you want to test one of these patched BIOSes. The link to my page is in my signature below.
A lot of people here on Vogons helped by testing a patched BIOS on their board, so thank you all for making this update possible! 😀
Jan