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The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email The V5 BIOS has been patched! You know where to find it. You can get into the Setup Screen, and boot non-QNX stuff once more. Thanks to FrustratedMan and others for the early work creating the QNX-Decrippling patch from the V2 BIOS disassembly. The "ultimate" patch you guys figured out worked like a charm! Now all we need are working Win98 drivers -- I couldn't get the ones referenced in another thread to work. 08-15-2000 00:06:19

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) friar Profile WooWooWooWooWoo! (doing the curly shuffle) Now all I need to get is a V5! I knew you guys could do it!! 08-15-2000 02:05:03

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) EffinAye Profile | Email Meaning that the sound initialization via the bios issue is resolved? 08-15-2000 04:56:34

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) alvin Profile Wild_Pencil Please explain what you mean by patch. sound or bios. and where to find it. Thanks 08-15-2000 07:46:44

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Yes, the v5 BIOS does provide PNP support for the sound card, and all that stuff is re-enabled. Win98 "sees" the Sound hardware, but without the right drivers, it doesn't know what to do with it. I'm hoping someone out there can figure that part out -- I don't have time to scour the 'Net and fiddle with Win98 settings. 08-15-2000 07:47:05

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Did you try the drivers at http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm Specifically: http://216.122.141.7/drivers/68usr108.exe 08-15-2000 09:05:47

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Thanks, BadFlash!! Those drivers work beautifully! Now I got sound in my V5! 08-15-2000 09:58:18

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) redwood Profile gawd I love you guys, :) 08-15-2000 10:36:48

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) EffinAye Profile | Email mad props go's out to everyone envolved 08-15-2000 11:06:34

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) alvin Profile Can you explain how to use these files. to make it work.. thanks.. 08-15-2000 13:40:13

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email First of all, it takes a long time to get logged in, second, everybody and his brother is probably downloading it, so you'll probably need to try at 2AM. Be patient Grasshopper! (or some other bug as the case may be) As to how to use the files, the bios file needs to be flashed in using Uniflash from a dos prompt, not a dos window. if you have a flashable bios chip. Because you are flashing from a hard drive uniflash will probably hang at the end, but you can reboot and it will likely work. Like any other flash routine, it can fail leaving you with a dead machine. The driver is just a sound driver. Do it like loading any other driver. Download it, expand the file, run the install. I will be offering V5 chips shortly after a beta test. This will take a few days because no one saw fit to sell me their V5. 08-15-2000 18:12:23

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) GuyMontag Profile BadFlash, I will gladly send you my v5 chip, won't ask any q. about what you do with it, if you send me a new one back. Now, what flashing utilities do you guys suggest for FreeBSD (or *bsd, or *nix or Linux)? Visit http://www.dc2600.com 08-15-2000 18:34:29

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) area51 Profile Someone set up a gnutella node please 08-15-2000 18:58:27

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) vader Profile Maybe I am a moron, but where do I find this bin file? I've tried all the locations where it should be with no luck. 08-15-2000 21:11:28

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) rico Profile Wild Pencil/BadFlash I downloaded and successfully flashed the "patched" v5 BIOS. The iopener boots up just fine (v1 "nothing but net" splash screen no longer shows during boot sequence). Unfortunately, the VIA audio drivers don't seem to work for me...no sound/no audio devices in the device manager. Can you give me a "play by play" of how you got sound on your v5. I am running Win98, VIA 4in1 drivers (v4.24), and VIA Audio driver (68USR108.exe). Thx... 08-15-2000 23:30:04

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) alvin Profile Can one flash a v5 chip with the v5bios_patched.bin file. Or do you need to flash a v1 chip then use it in the v5. and what is the v1sysv5sound file for. 08-16-2000 07:50:44

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Rico, All I did to get the sound drivers working was: (*)Extract the 68USR108.EXE into a known directory (*)Removed any and all sound drivers from Control Panel (I was experimenting with the AD1881A drivers, and they conflicted with the VIA drivers) (*)Double-Checked Control Panel|Add/Remove Programs for other AD1881A remnants At that point, I have a clean Win98 machine. I just rebooted, and let Win98 do its Plug-n-Play detection. When it prompted me for a driver for the PCI Multimedia Device, I pointed it to the Win9x directory that 68USR108.EXE created. That was it. An annoying POP sound from my machine, and I knew I had sound enabled. I'm not using the 4-in-1 drivers, and I'm running an old copy of Win98 (the first release of Win98, not SE). Maybe you need to go into the Setup Screen, and check to enable the "OnBoard Sound" setting? Otherwise, I'd try ditching the 4-in-1 drivers (There are no reported advantages to that driver anyway) and seeing if that helps. -WP 08-16-2000 09:34:14

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Alvin, If you've got a V5, use the V5BIOS_Patched.Bin file. The V1SysV5Sound one was someone else's experimental version, and doesn't work. Would someone else with a working V5/Sound configuration chime in? I'd hate to be the only one boasting about having a V5 on a DSL circuit playing my favorite ShoutCast Stream all day.. 08-16-2000 09:51:14

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) rico Profile Wild Pencil, If you are referring to the BIOS menu, then that is the one step I missed. I assumed that the new BIOS image had sound enabled as a default. I will try that tonite. BTW, is there a "special" trick for getting into the BIOS with the patched v5 BIOS. I tried <tab> then <ctrl><alt><home> with the iopener keyboard and that didn't work (used to work fine with the v1 BIOS). thanks for the help...you guys are awesome... 08-16-2000 10:44:08

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email No special trick -- it's the same hot-key as before. Ctrl-Alt-Esc 08-16-2000 12:21:31

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) vader Profile I found the BIOS patch, but I can't get it to work. I took installed win98se (ver 4.1.2222) with the patched BIOS, got the drivers for everything working, enabled the sound in the BIOS, and installed the win98se driver referenced in a message above when PnP deceted it. I also tried the win9x driver. According to the device manager "the device is not present" even though it detected it through PnP. Anyone else having this problem? I also was not able to change the boot logo. After "soft" reboots no video would be displayed when the boot logo was displayed. Has anyone been able to add a boot logo? 08-16-2000 19:07:15

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Lyman Profile What is the best way to flash a "virgin" V5? I have tried the technique for the V4 (making a hard disk look like the sandisk) but get a "boot failure". I know that the hard disk and cable are okay. Any suggestions? 08-16-2000 21:24:39

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email As far as I can tell, flashing the chip on another machine or buying a pre-flashed chip is the only solution to the V5. No one has published (that I have seen) how to get into the system. FLASH821.exe is now posted in the same directory with the v5 patched bios file. This is an AMI flasher that I just used to flash my V3 to the patched V5 image. Guess what? Sound still works on the V3. Whoever did the hack either was REAL good or REAL lucky. Hats off to them either way. FLASH821 will complain. It told me the bios wasn't for my machine, but I told it to go ahead and it flashed just fine. I did the flash from the sandisk, not the HD, don't knowif it matters, just a data point. UNIFLASH won't do a 39SF020, only a 49F020. Now my V3 is booting up without the little I-O guy. It is a regular pc boot screen now. I'm going to do a little more investigation, but I believe the new V5 image can be legally freely distributed. Without the NPLI logo the only copyright info belongs to AWARD, and it appears that the software all belongs to AWARD. AWARD files are freely distributed, so this should be pretty clean. I'm going to check with some lawyers and find out. This probably applied to the V1 bios as well, but with the NPLI logo is was always questionable. 08-17-2000 04:51:46

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Lord_Dargon69 Profile Just to be completely redundant.... Patched V5 BIOS image = V1 BIOS image + new sound driver patch for V5 sound chips set. Because there is still no way to get to the BIOS screen of a 'Virgin' V5...(right) -LD 08-17-2000 09:07:11

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) rico Profile Wild Pencil, Thanks for your help...sound is now working on my v5. I went into the BIOS menu, enabled onboard sound, booted windows, installed the VIA drivers and was good to go! Also, I can confirm that sound works with the VIA 4in1 drivers (v4.24) running Win98. Next hack, line out with the AD1881a chip... 08-17-2000 10:18:26

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) alvin Profile Is it possible to flash a v4 chip with this flash to have it work in the v5. And can one do this by booting to the scandisk ruuning dos. then remove the v1 bios install the v4 bios and flash it to work for the v5. 08-17-2000 15:38:29

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) friar Profile Now if we could just get bios support for booting from CDrom! lol 08-17-2000 19:38:33

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) goober Profile Pardon my ignorance but where does one go to find the patched bios bin? Additionally, will awdflash work? Thanks 08-17-2000 21:12:36

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) starfish Profile http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=whatever&Post=1440&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session= 08-17-2000 21:32:27

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) JV12 Profile I'm having the same/similar problem as Vader up there. I've done the following: 1) Flashed the chip with the new Patched V5 Bios. 2) Installed Windows 98SE on one HD, and Windows ME on another HD 3) Installed the Cyberblade Video Drivers (couldn't stand the blotchy text any more) 4) Installed the 68USR108.EXE sound drivers 5) Double checked the BIOS, and the "On Board Sound" was ALREADY Enabled Neither OS has sound. Both of them show the "VIA PCI Sound Card" in the Device Manager, but both have an Exclaimation icon in front of it (with the usual, 'Device is not present... or drivers not installed properly...' yadda yadda yadda description). I've tried installing the VIA 4-IN-1 v4.24 Drivers on top, but that didn't make a difference. And I missing something here? TIA. 08-18-2000 10:00:47

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) vader Profile The sound works just fine with win98, but I've had no luck with win98se. The BIOS also works funny when a bootlogo is added, can anyone confirm this? 08-18-2000 13:34:03

WORKING 98SE DRIVERS (modified 0 times) nascarnights Profile vadar and jv12 and others. The drivers listed in the "98se" folder won't work in SE, but the ones in the "9x" folder will!! (These folders are created by the self-extracting file from the link above in this thread) After installing the SE drivers and getting frustrated, I did this... 1.)Removed the exclamation-marked device in the device manager. 2.)Deleted all the via audio files in the windows folder 3.)Rebooted and let it autodetect until it prompted me for drivers. 4.)Specified the 9x folder from the driver distribution 5.)Heard a welcome "click" 6.)rebooted and got the startup sound. (The mic seems to be enabled and turned up by default. I did a line-out mod while waiting for the bios patch, so I was serenaded by cascading feedback on restart!! You won't hear it on the built-in speakers because the gain is so low.) Good luck guys/gals. I hope this solves sound on the V5 once and for all. 08-18-2000 21:16:00

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) JV12 Profile THANK YOU for clearing that up, Nascarnights! I finally got to experience that "click" of life from the speakers! Did exactly as you described, worked like a charm. I never thought I'd be so glad to hear that annoying "Uh-Oh!" from ICQ! Thanks to everyone who made V5 SOUND possible! 08-18-2000 22:49:46

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) goober Profile Thanks starfish. I got the files. I'm gonna try flashing it for my V4 like that other fellow did to get rid of the "nothin' but net" screen on his v3. I'm hotflashing on a bh6 so if it doesn't work, no big deal. 08-18-2000 22:52:49

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) goober Profile Thanks starfish. I got the files. I'm gonna try flashing it for my V4 like that other fellow did to get rid of the "nothin' but net" screen on his v3. I'm hotflashing on a bh6 so if it doesn't work, no big deal. 08-18-2000 22:52:51

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) New I/O Owner Profile NASCARNIGHTS, Thanks, worked like a champ. I received a V5 PATCHED bios chip from badflash today and got Win98 running. V12, Did you get 98 or ME running? I think I'm gonna try ME next. Thanks, for all your help... 08-18-2000 23:19:37

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) JV12 Profile New I/O Owner, I just got Win98SE working. I actually screwed WinME, cuz it appeared to be running 'slower' than Win98SE. So I just deleted it and went with what worked. But regardings WinME, I think I actually used the Win9X drivers on that one in the first place and it didn't work... If you already have it installed, give it another shot <shrug>. 08-19-2000 10:27:40

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) New I/O Owner Profile JV12, Tried all those friggin' drivers with Win ME but it's a NO GO. Maybe VIA will come out with audio support after it hit's the market?? BUT on the good side it does work like a champ with 98SE. I'm gonna try installing 98Lite Pro and see if I can't chop it down a little though. I'll keep everyone posted as to my accomplishments. BTW A big THANKS to BADFLASH for the work on the bios chip!!!!! If your not sure about flashing your own, Jack is the man to count on http://www.badflash.com . Good Luck all you V% owners..... Howie 08-20-2000 00:52:15

Patch a TOTAL Virgin V5? (modified 0 times) Dan2 Profile Sorry if this has already been asked, but I didn't see an answer to this question and this thread is rather large now. I've got a totally virgin V5 I-Opener (except I swapped the 32 MB SODIMM for a 64 MB SODIMM) -- is there any way I can get my BIOS flashed with this patched BIOS? I have friends with V1 and V3 I-Openers, if that helps... I really want to get this V5 booting off a hard drive. 08-20-2000 23:37:16

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) New I/O Owner Profile Dan2 The easiest thing to do is order an already flashed bios from http://www.badflash.com . Between the flashed bios and the VIA audio driver http://216.122.141.7/drivers/68usr108.exe (use the win9X drivers), you should get sound and be able to boot from a hard drive. Or you can go the route of flashing it yourself, but I can't help ya there, you'll have to search on this BBS for help on that. And Good Luck. Howie 08-21-2000 13:34:20

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) New I/O Owner Profile Dan2 Just to clarify the above post. Tha win9X drivers WILL work with Win98SE. DO NOT use the drivers for WIN98SE though, they WILL NOT work. There are also drivers for Linux in that zip. If your gonna run Win ME on it none of these drivers will work. I'm sorta hoping that after Win ME is on the marked VIA will come out with a driver for that also. Howie 08-21-2000 13:38:49

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) ganda Profile Got a deal for you Dan2. If you have an extra I-Opener, I'll trade you (3) K6-3 333 AFK cpu's and "hot flash" the V5 bios onto your bios chip with my Bh6. Email me if you are interested. miss_ganda@hotmail.com 08-21-2000 22:52:08

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) Dan2 Profile Thanks but I only have 1 I-Opener :( How are the BIOSes flashed with a BH6? You can really just pop its BIOS out and flash the I-O hot swapped? That's nuts :) 08-22-2000 19:43:37

RE:The V5 BIOS is now Patched!! (modified 0 times) ganda Profile Yep, the BH6 is one of the few motherboards out there that uses the same bios chip. The bios chip is only read from during the boot process. Once it's done "booting", you can safely (or should I say reasonably safely) pop the original bios chip out, pop the I-Opener bios chip in, and hot flash it. I have a BH6, I have the V1 bios bin files, V5 patched bin files, I-Opener IDE cable, Tennmax fan, PS/2 keyboard splitter, USB ethernet adapter, a 3 gig 2.5" drive, and a Fry's 20 minutes down the freeway from me. All this but no I-Opener.........{sob} 08-22-2000 22:14:42

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