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Originally Posted by undersea
5)Bill did you notice if you can save bios settings with this board?
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If you mean like DFI - no.
Well that took forever.
I had seen a Beta BIOS file for the A7DA-S in
this article a while back but was afraid to try it so this morning I decided to see if one of my spare AX78 BIOS chips would work.
I knew it wasn't going to be too easy since the AX uses Award and the A7 uses AMI plus the fact that they were made by different companies but I gave it a shot.
First thing was to change the batch file from the official BIOS 3 folder I downloaded from Foxconn.
The original file was afudos 81bf1p03.rom /p /n /b /c so I changed it to afudos 879f1p04.rom /p /n /b /c to match the new BIOS file.
I booted into DOS using a floppy and then ran the flash utility AFUDOS.exe and came up with a Wrong BIOS ID and back to the C prompt.
OK I'll do what I always did with Award and add /f to force it.
Nooo.
That doesn't work with AMI.
Then I googled about 30 sites and tried all the recommendations (none of which worked btw) even dl'ing a program called Uniflash which didn't recognize the new type chip.
Finally I just tried running AFUDOS without the batch file and it displayed a list of the command line switches.
Last one was /X which instructs the flasher to disregard the BIOS ID.
Sweet.
afudos 879f1p04.rom /p /n /b /c /x did the trick.
I now have the spare chip with the Beta BIOS installed and my original chip with the Official BIOE 3 is in my spare parts.
I'll see if this Beta does anything better.
Bill