Trying to update Award Bios

[vasquelli]

Hi Folks,

Been losing sleep trying to update my Award Bios. Here's the skinny...
Wim's Bios Page tells me to do the following when I get an insufficient memory error while trying to flash.

1. In CMOS Chipset Features Setup, Disable Video Bios Cacheable.
2. Hit Esc,F10,Save and exit.
3. Reboot and hit Ctrl+F5,when you see "Windows Starting" (This temporarily prevents Drvspace.bin
from loading-making 108K more Memory available.)
4. Flash the BIOS and reboot
5. Enter CMOS Chipset Features Setup,and Enable Video Bios Cacheable,hit Esc,F10,Save and reboot.

I can disable the Video Bios Cache but I have EZBIOS installed so that when I have to hit CONTRL+F5 it opens an EZBIOS window because I've hit the darned CONTROL key. Now, I'm at a loss as to how to keep DRVSPACE.bin from loading.

Any ideas?

Mark

[commodsquad]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/003443.html
see this thread..I'm not familiar with EZBIOS but it sounds to me like you will need to make bootable disk to native dos mode so that none of the drivers and TSR's load.
type this at command prompt to make one:

format a: /s

dont forget there is a space between the colon and the forward slash.
also you can copy the award flash program to the disk and the BIN file so that you can just run it from there without having to search for it on the harddrive or switch disks... Also since it is an award flash utility I believe that it will ask you if you want to save the current BIOS, I must stress that you SAVE it in case something goes wrong so you will be able to go back to the original so dont write protect the disk. I hope that helps...and if I got the command line set up wrong someone please correct me ...

[This message has been edited by commodsquad (edited 11-24-1999).]

[This message has been edited by commodsquad (edited 11-24-1999).]

[Pantion]

You can get rid of Ez-Bios downloading the files from Maxtor's website. Of course I don't know if you really need EZ-Bios or not. So be sure on what are you going to do.