[plug] BIOS update for VIA MVP3?

[Adam Davin]

G'day all

John, try this page,

http://www.wimsbios.com/

I've had it help me find manufacturers of boards etc several times.

Also if you can't be bothered waiting around at the bios screen copying down
the strings, let me know I have a utility to report a few bios basics which
I snaffled off the web a few years back.

If anyone else wants a copy I'll stick it up on a web page later.

I have also had the same problems with older m/b's hanging on detect in the
bios for indefinite periods of time with 40gb hd's. But alas was unable to
find a bios update to do it. I did come a cross a link somewhere for a site
that upgrades older bioses for a fee, not sure what the fee is like and I
wasn't really prepared to pay anything significant for an upgrade.

HTH

Adam.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Knight [mailto:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 14 September 2002 11:10 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] BIOS update for VIA MVP3?
>
>
> Ahhh, crossed wires, it's not that it can't read past 8G, it's
> that unless
> the hard drive has the jumper set to "limit to 32G", the bios
> ca'nt actually
> see it, it jsut hangs around a lot doing nothing. :(
> I'll havea  bit more of a gander, cheers mate! :)
> P.S. I've set up a 20G on a mate's 133, runs with no worries
> despite the 8G
> thing. :)
>
> >Have you reminded him that Linux does not care about 8G or 32G hard disk
> >limits? Just thought I'd ask :)
> >Secondly this is BIOS stuff, there are *no* guarantees....
> >Lastly, looking for a signifying code (eg GA-5VX or AXVX-Lite) and
> >Googling has come up trumps plenty of times.
> >KTX was handled by Edge, buy they went under a few years ago, so you
> >probably can't expect any local support.
> >
> >Hope this helps somewhat...
> >
> >Craig F.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Knight [mailto:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 11:38 AM
> > > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > > Subject: [plug] BIOS update for VIA MVP3?
> > >
> > >
> > > G'day all!
> > > My dad's got a generic VIA chipset board from a company
> > > called KTX. We're
> > > looking for a BIOS update for his chipset, due to his mobo
> > > not recognising
> > > drives past 32G (AMD K6 2-350), does anyone else own a board
> > > with this
> > > standard chipset too, that could point me to a good bios
> > > update page and
> > > give me a decent guarantee that the falsh won't cark his mobo
> > > by being an
> > > MVP3 sequel instead? ;)
> > >
> > > tomato
> > >
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