03-27-2011, 06:06 PM
Hoping that somebody can help me.
I was goofing around with the SLIC table in my BIOS and may have fudged something.
My M/B still POSTs + boots fine and almost everything works but I believe that I may have messed up my onboard LAN in the process.
My motherboard is an OEM Asus made for HP -> P5BW-LA (Basswood3G-UL8E version) HP part# 5188-7408
There is no softpaq available from HP that I could find for this M/B, even though there are for the Buckeye, Basswood and Basswood2 variants.
Initially, my onboard Intel 82566DC was working fine under Windows 7. Then I extracted my BIOS with awd865.exe, ISA modified the SLIC table and reflashed it with awdflash.exe v1.34.
What makes me believe that I messed up my onboard LAN is that after flashing and upon rebooting, Win 7 recognized and installed drivers for LAN Connection #2 for "another" Intel 82566DC LAN device, abandoning the original LAN Connection as though it was uninstalled. Result, onboard LAN is still recognized but no longer works.
I reinstalled Windows 7 which put me back to one LAN Connection but still no worky.
Also, if I enable the LAN Boot ROM, I get a corrupted LAN EEPROM error during POST. I don't know whether that would have happened anyway pre-flash as I never tested that pre-flash.
I flashed back my unmodified BIOS but still have the same problem.
Anyway, I guess that I can't be 100% sure whether I actually corrupted something in the ROM chip or if my onboard LAN just decided to get funky on it's own. But I'd bet that it had to be what I did
I suppose other possibilities are that my original extraction was faulty or that my method of flashing is flawed.
BTW, I flashed with award flash v 1.34 (no SLIC checks) via ...
awdflash BIOS /py/cc/cp/cd/r
So I wonder ...
Is the onboard LAN BIOS contained in that same 1MB M/B BIOS chip with everything else ? So could I have even of whacked it ?
I would appreciate if anyone has a copy of the ...
Award Broadwater P5BW-LA3-00 v5.09 6/08/2007 BIOS ?
and could post either the BIOS itself or even a checksum that I can compare against the pre-mod version that I had extracted ?
I did happen upon a 5.07 version for the same M/B out there but I'm a bit gun shy to try that.
Anyway, happy Sunday
I was goofing around with the SLIC table in my BIOS and may have fudged something.
My M/B still POSTs + boots fine and almost everything works but I believe that I may have messed up my onboard LAN in the process.
My motherboard is an OEM Asus made for HP -> P5BW-LA (Basswood3G-UL8E version) HP part# 5188-7408
There is no softpaq available from HP that I could find for this M/B, even though there are for the Buckeye, Basswood and Basswood2 variants.
Initially, my onboard Intel 82566DC was working fine under Windows 7. Then I extracted my BIOS with awd865.exe, ISA modified the SLIC table and reflashed it with awdflash.exe v1.34.
What makes me believe that I messed up my onboard LAN is that after flashing and upon rebooting, Win 7 recognized and installed drivers for LAN Connection #2 for "another" Intel 82566DC LAN device, abandoning the original LAN Connection as though it was uninstalled. Result, onboard LAN is still recognized but no longer works.
I reinstalled Windows 7 which put me back to one LAN Connection but still no worky.
Also, if I enable the LAN Boot ROM, I get a corrupted LAN EEPROM error during POST. I don't know whether that would have happened anyway pre-flash as I never tested that pre-flash.
I flashed back my unmodified BIOS but still have the same problem.
Anyway, I guess that I can't be 100% sure whether I actually corrupted something in the ROM chip or if my onboard LAN just decided to get funky on it's own. But I'd bet that it had to be what I did
I suppose other possibilities are that my original extraction was faulty or that my method of flashing is flawed.
BTW, I flashed with award flash v 1.34 (no SLIC checks) via ...
awdflash BIOS /py/cc/cp/cd/r
So I wonder ...
Is the onboard LAN BIOS contained in that same 1MB M/B BIOS chip with everything else ? So could I have even of whacked it ?
I would appreciate if anyone has a copy of the ...
Award Broadwater P5BW-LA3-00 v5.09 6/08/2007 BIOS ?
and could post either the BIOS itself or even a checksum that I can compare against the pre-mod version that I had extracted ?
I did happen upon a 5.07 version for the same M/B out there but I'm a bit gun shy to try that.
Anyway, happy Sunday