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motherboard BIOS update question...Asus P3B-F and ATA100 hard drives...

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MIDIman

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Anyone else have any problems with this particular motherboard and more current hard drives? I just ordered a Seagate Barracuda IV 40gig ATA100, so I need to make sure it works!

I'm using an Asus P3B-F and tried to install an IBM 60gxp (ATA100) 40 gig drive a few weeks ago. It didn't work. According to Asus tech support, I need to install a beta BIOS (1.07 something or other), but the reason given was "to support 60 gig drives or higher," which of course was not for the reason I needed it, but I'm assuming has something relevant.


<< Please update your motherboard's bios to the latest version which can support IDE HDD larger than 65G.
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/bios/p3bf1071.zip >>


QUESTION - the zip includes only one file - 1007f.001 - which appears to actually be a WinRAR file, because double-clicking it brings up winrar with the file "cpucode.exe" inside.

So how exactly do I go about installing this BIOS? Usually the BIOS file is an *.awd or something like that. Should I extract the cpucode.exe or do aflash.exe and load this strange bios file, like normal.
 
here....this dude just posted...here....gives ya pretty good detail on "how to".
Best off going to Asus's website and look for BIOS, they usually tell ya how as well.
If ya have the cd that came with your board, best off copying the flash program from there, last time I did my Asus board I downloaded it and for some reason that file wouldn't work, but the one off of cd did...go figure.
 
Flashing the BIOS on the P3B-F isn't really all that big of a deal. All you need is a floppy with 9X boot files on it, a BIOS flashing utility found at ASUS called AFLASH.EXE, and the BIOS you want to use. Set your system to boot floppy first and boot off the floppy. From the A:/ prompt run AFLASH. The first thing you will want to do is "copy current BIOS" to the floppy. After that, go ahead and choose the option to flash the new BIOS. Back your way out of the utility, restart the system, and go back into the new BIOS. Choose the option to reset everything to default settings and then re-configure the new BIOS as is recommended by AFLASH.EXE. Yes, sometimes flashing fails but I have never had it happen to me in a lot of mobo flashings.
I just flashed mine to the newest BIOS on the German ASUS website, 1008.004 (beta) to facilitate upgrading to a P3 1ghz. No problems, no worries.
 
worked fine...i just unzipped the contents, created a boot floppy and used the 1007f.001 with aflash.exe

thanks - hopefully the drive will work when it gets here!
 
Unfortunately, my forecast is that while the new BIOS is in and all is well, it will not change your HDD controller. That is hardware on the mobo. If you don't have a blue primary IDE connector, you don't have ATA 66/100 and never will. You must either change the mobo, disable that controller and use a Promise PCI controller.

As is, your new drive will run just fine, but at ATA 33.
 
corky - correct, but without the BIOS update, it wont recognize ATA100 drives at all.

i'm currently using an ATA66 fine, but the reason i rasied this issue was because a working ATA100 drives was not being recognized on this motherboard. according to Asus, this will address the issue, and even though all drives will run at ATA33, it will now at least recognize an ATA100 drives...
 
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