Bios Flash questions for ECSK7S5A

[Moonbeam]

I'm trying to update my bios and have run into some questions. I saw something somewhere, can't remember, that implied that a later update, by date didn't necessariuly enclude stuff from earlier updates. I thought the most up to date bios encluded all previous improvements and you needed to update, at any one time, only to the most recent update. Isn't that correct?

Also I see that each bios has a different AMI flash utility, and the link isn't working for me. I was able to find elsewhere on the site a bios for the sis 735 chip encluding the specifically the K7S5A that is generic for that and a few other boards. I read that the generic doesn't work and you need a specific one. That doesn't make sense since they have the generic one on the ECS web site. Can anybody tell me what's up here and does the link work for you. Thanks.

 

[toft-dk]

Are you sure ?

 

[Moonbeam]

It's not that I'm sure, it's just that after 8000 posts, I got trigger happy, posting before getting brain in gear.

 

[AnMig]

cant really answer your bios question, although it would make it unresonable not to include the fixes from the old bios to the new bios.

Just flashed my daughters k7s5a yesterday to the cheepos bios 0625, i used the same flash program aminf329 program i did 6 months ago.

check this site out for good k7s5a info link

good luck

 

[Moonbeam]

Thanks, AnMig, I used that site and ECS to flash last night. I used the latest official BIOS and the generic 3.32 (I think) flasher they post elsewhere on the site. I just decided to try it despite the concerns I read elsewhere. Everything went ok after some reconfiguring and messing with the sound card that wouldn't go in right after I reformated a few days ago. I full formated a floppy just for pease of mind and guick formated it again with the system files, unzipped the zipped bios and copied the lan rom to the floppy as well as the flasher, rebooted and typed dir at the a prompt to see if everything was there, then typed AMIINF332 XXXXXX.ROM where the Xs represent the bios nomber, pressed enter, got a 'correct' and pressed enter again. Easy as pie once you do it. Wish ECS would either get their flash page up or put a note to use the generic flasher. It's a freak to do a proceedure in the dark that can hose your system if it's not right. All the bios on the site have their own flasher but none of them connect to a working page, at least as of yesterday.