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VS440FX OEM (Gateway) BIOS upgrade
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Alex
Dec 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/11/98
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Help!!!
Has anyone upgraded this system to 1.00.18.CS1T or CS1? is there any place
that would provide the upgrade? the morons at Gateway refuse to do anything
to make this upgrade avilable. is there any other vendor that uses the same
motherboard and is providing the release 18 upgrade? Intel told me to talk
to gateway, Gateway told me to talk to intel or go to hell, and AMI won't
talk to me at all. the start-up screen doesn't show any info besides
1.00.08.CS1T - so Phoenix or Award won't know which bios will work with my
motherboard
Rodger MacKendrick
Dec 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/11/98
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Yes this Gateway motherboard has been upgraded with success. But you have to
use the bios recovery method. I got my instructions from this forum some time
ago but here they are. You make a bootable disk BIOS disk as per instructions
that come with the BIOS file download. After the disk is finished remove the
READ ONLY attribute from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the disk. Open it up with
Notepad or Edit find the line "iflash" and change it to read "iflash /p
<filename>.bio" <filename> should be replaced with the file on the disk with
the .BIO extension. shut down your computer. Put your motherboard BIOS jumper
in recovery mode insert your disk and powerup the machine. YOU WILL HAVE NO
VIDEO OUTPUT!! your machine will beep once then run the floppy for SEVERAL
MINUTES. Let it run until you hear two beeps wait an additional two minutes.
Power off return the jumper to normal position and restart you will now have
the intel POST screen and updated BIOS. Good Luck
use the bios recovery method. I got my instructions from this forum some time
ago but here they are. You make a bootable disk BIOS disk as per instructions
that come with the BIOS file download. After the disk is finished remove the
READ ONLY attribute from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the disk. Open it up with
Notepad or Edit find the line "iflash" and change it to read "iflash /p
<filename>.bio" <filename> should be replaced with the file on the disk with
the .BIO extension. shut down your computer. Put your motherboard BIOS jumper
in recovery mode insert your disk and powerup the machine. YOU WILL HAVE NO
VIDEO OUTPUT!! your machine will beep once then run the floppy for SEVERAL
MINUTES. Let it run until you hear two beeps wait an additional two minutes.
Power off return the jumper to normal position and restart you will now have
the intel POST screen and updated BIOS. Good Luck
Alex
Dec 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/12/98
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i'll try that... now i stumbled into another question - will the motherboard
support drives over 8.4 GB? Intel's documentation contradicts each other...
support drives over 8.4 GB? Intel's documentation contradicts each other...
Rodger MacKendrick
Dec 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/12/98
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Not it still won't support over an 8.4 GB hard drive sorry...
Ron
Dec 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/12/98
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Not exactly, this guy that I have been in contact with has a 13.6 Gig Maxtor
installed on a VS440FX mother board with no hard drive overlay from Maxtor
using the latest Intel Bios.
Ron
Rodger MacKendrick wrote in message <3672C376...@n-link.com>...
installed on a VS440FX mother board with no hard drive overlay from Maxtor
using the latest Intel Bios.
Ron
Rodger MacKendrick wrote in message <3672C376...@n-link.com>...
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