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Oldie AwardBIOS 120G+ mod possible?
#1
As my main PC is refusing to work (it seems that it does work, just nothing shown up on the screen!), I using my backup machine and that is kinda old, yet recapped JetWay V266B board. I have two of these boards, and they are working reasonably well, yet recently I have breakdown and they no longer works with my 320G and 500G PATA HDDs...! I found this shocking. I install W2k SP4 on 80G and then transfer the system (just disable the swap and use DriveImage) to new, big HDD on witch Windows cannot be installed, on this machine.

I'm somewhat used to this (W2k backup, even with everything installed, can be about 260MB in size (packed), so... no problemo for a CD save and then restore on the bigger HDD), yet like I say, recently it just stop working. I have absolutely no idea why, yet as soon, as I connect a 320G Seagate 16MB cache (ST3320620A) or a 500G Western Digital 16MB cache (WD5000AAKB) HDD, it show up nicely in BIOS. Autodetect, correct size, etc. However when the machine is about to be done with POST, then it show the "Verifying DMI Pool Data .........." and that it hang there forever. Never boot again anymore. It is absolutely mind-blowing, because I used to RUN from these HDDs...

As hard to believe it sounds, when I grab the other V266B board, it show the very same thing. Shocking...

Regardless, I do wonder, if anyone can take a look at this, because it would be a great help for me. It is enough that my main PC went wrong, but to run on 80G slow old HDD (only 2MB cache, suxx!) and old slow PC together is terrible. Please help!


Also it make me wonder, why the BIOS disable the Vcore voltage settings, when AXP is used. When the second board have only a Duron 1200, then it show the settings, as seen in BIOS:

[Image: Jet_Way_V266_B_A14_bios_screen.png]

It goes by the nice 0.025V increments all the way up to 1.850V ... witch will be fairly good, IF and only IF it can be used when AXP CPU's are inserted. AXP-Mobile or underclocked AXP CPU's not need full voltage. AXP-M goes from 1.40V... so... (update: when flashed the bios update on the old Athlon CPU, the bios Vcore settings remain there, even when later a AXP is used! Interesting!)


Oddly, everything does not work for me. Perhaps Windows 2000 SP4 are too old? Dunno. It just silently quit... So I replace it with the Everest report...

So, I humbly requesting the bios mod to work with bigger harddrives for:

-Manufacturer: JetWay
-Motherboard Model: V266B
-Bios revision: A14
-Bios Type: AwardBIOS
-Bios Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?1c3nb6ozspf2n9r
http://www.sendspace.com/file/a507wq
http://dfiles.eu/files/83g1h9fii
http://www.uloz.to/xh9vQ7Kw/JetWay+V266B+bioses.zip

Everest report:
http://ax2.old-cans.com/Everest%20JetWay...report.htm

Anyone who dare to look at the 120G barrier, pretty please?

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
...just keep folding, just keep folding... Smile my config
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#2
Bump for the usage of bigger HDD's!
I already patched the Windows 2000 SP4 install, so it can be installed on huge HDDs now! Smile Just make them post with this mobo, pls Wink

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
...just keep folding, just keep folding... Smile my config
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#3
Little bumpy for the bigger HDD support, as I have two of these mainboards and I would like to use them sometimes for various work, but with bigger HDDs, of course!

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
...just keep folding, just keep folding... Smile my config
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#4
Bump for bigger HDDs? Smile

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
...just keep folding, just keep folding... Smile my config
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#5
Slight and carefull bump? Smile Please?

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