[Gllug] Bios flashing

[Liam Smit]

Kein probleem herr Genrad.

Liam

On 5/22/05, john gennard <joney at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Liam Smit <liam.smit at gmail.com> wrote:-
> 
>  >> I've build a box from bits and pieces. The mobo,
>  >> a Gigabyte GA-5AX, has Award Bios that goes back
>  >> to 1999 and I'm trying to update this.
>  >>
>  >> Using a FreeDOS boot disk* with the flash upgrade
>  >> which should, I believe, do the job, I get an
>  >> error message "Insufficient Memory". What does
>  >> this mean and how do I fix it?
> 
> 
>  >In the wonderful world of DOS you need drivers to access your memory
>  >above 640KB. Basically 640KB is directly addressable and then the
>  >next 384KB is availble to load certain drivers into by using
>  >commands like loadhigh <device driver name> in config.sys
> 
>  >You probably want to check that you have himem.sys loaded and that
>  >you are using your extended (or is it expanded memory). This will
>  >hopefully allow your flshing utility to get the job done as I'm
>  >pretty sure it is complaining about the 1MB of base memory being
>  >mostly used and not free. By loading everything you can into other
>  >memory it should free up eough memory for you to flash it.
> 
> I had suspicions that the error was due to the above - problem
> was that I never understood the 640k memory thing.
> I got the utility from eSupport, and the unzipped file contains
> only 'autoexec', 'awdflash', 'command', 'kernel.sys' and 'licence':
> to this I added '5AX.F4' (Award's update).
> eSupport will also do the whole thing online for around $30 -
> so I wonder!.
> 
>  >The simplest solution would be to get a MS DOS boot disk from a
>  >Win98 machine and use that.
> 
> This is what I shall do - I have, somewhere, a W98SE CD and a
> bootdisk - another problem will be finding them!.
> 
> Many thanks, Liam, I now know what is what.
> 
> Regards,                                        John.
> 
>  >Don't ask me how I remember this stuff, the last time I had to
>  >fiddle with this aspect of DOS was many years ago.
> 
>  >cheers
>  >Liam
> 
> 
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