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Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Cide Profile Hi, I recently got a bios from badflash.com and I repllaced it I see v5.0.0(patched) come up now and the i-opener screen is gone. However I still can't get into bios with ctrl-alt-home, ctrl-alt-esc, del, ctrl-home or ctrl-esc, any idea why? I didn't get a splitter I just hooked up a regular keyboard to it. Why can't I get in? I believe I have a 2001 i-opener, it's got torx 8 security screws and no expoy or cut pins. Thanks for any help in advance, Cide 06-08-2001 07:42:56

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Some keyboards don't work with the IO, but it could be your tecnique. What I do is start hitting the CNTRL-ALT-ESC (all three at the same time) over & over again as soon as I see light on the screen. Be sure you try this from cold power-up, not from a re-boot. 06-08-2001 10:24:40

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Cide Profile What about the i-opener original keyboard and hitting home instead of esc? should this work? 06-08-2001 11:59:57

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Cide Profile Allright I recently purchanced an origonal i-opener and I can get into it's bios using ctrl-alt-home, but not any of my v5's. 06-08-2001 12:06:11

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Normally you need a splitter with the keyboard hooked to the mouse port to get into the BIOS.....Never heard of the std I-Opener keyboard working for this. You need to ust a "real" keyboard (ctrl+alt+esc) 06-08-2001 12:47:01

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Pressing Ctl-Alt-Home using the original IOpener Keyboard doesn't work on the V5 BIOS. Ctl-Alt-Esc (regular keyboards) has always worked. This will all be fixed in the new BIOS I'm working on. -WP 06-08-2001 14:29:58

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile ...now if we could just get the Award "opening" screen to be character mode (CO80, whatever you want to call it), other issues may disappear as well (Linux/LILO starting with odd colorful messages and screen flashes, FreeBSD displaying the full boot procedure past the "Booting \" message). I know this isn't Burger King and I can't necessarily have it my way, but is this something that is within the realm of possibility? I don't see the benefit of having the opening screen be a VGA screen anyway, except to see the pretty blue Award ribbon logo... I can do without that. :) 06-11-2001 13:21:33

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Actually, going to CO80 has already been done. 06-11-2001 14:51:29

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile Then I want to volunteer to be one of the first people to test this new BIOS when it's done. :) Call me a guinea pig... 06-13-2001 21:30:25

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile Ratster: download http://bethie.net/~programmer/bi4.bin use cbrom to insert it into your bios, and before boot the following things will happen: 1) The chipset will be configured in the VIA recommended manner to ensure stability (Fix USB, possibly fix other problems we have yet to identify) 2) Memory Interleave will be set to 4 way 3) video mode will be set to 3 (CO80) This code will be in the next Wild_Pencil bios, and is(I think) available from BadFlash now. 06-14-2001 07:16:18

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) laserfan Profile Programmer, you said: >download http://bethie.net/~programmer/bi4.bin use cbrom to insert it into your bios Will these tweaks work with an original V1 BIOS (I assume you've worked w/the Badflash bios but I've lost track of whether this is a V1 clone or more likely that it is different from the original in significant ways). 06-14-2001 10:41:04

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile Short: Yup V1 OK. Long: It should work fine on any IOpener with any bios version, and with a virtually any other computer with a VIA (socket7 and beyond 686a and beyond for FixUSB) chipset and award bios as well. And with any other bios providing you can find a way to get the bin in the right place 06-14-2001 11:32:47

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile Programmer - You're going to either hate me or my friggin' IO2001 after I type this... I got v5pMI.bin, cbrom.exe, FL.exe, and bi4.bin. I put 'em all in a Sandisk that I set up on another IOpener (using Windows98) and copied to the IO2001. I ran the cbrom.exe command that you listed in the memory interleave thread, backed up the BIOS (from Badflash) to a file, then used FL to flash the new, patched v5pMI.bin image to the BIOS. No change. At least nothing that can be noticed. The system still boots to the same graphical Award BIOS boot screen, GRUB still pops up in color (it shouldn't), the screen flashes during the first few seconds Linux boots, etc. I even tried patching a copy of the backup BIOS image and writing that. The FL utility says a lot of nasty stuff about how the BIOS image may not be right for the system, but it writes it anyway according to the progress bar and the success message that pops up when it's all over. Damn, I've flashed BIOSes before (I'm typing this message on my gooped v2/v3/whatever IOpener which I flashed using qnxflash many moons ago) and it's not all that complex of an art. Perhaps the BIOS I got from Badflash isn't flashable? That's all I can think of. It's one of the new v5 BIOSes, so I'd think it could be flashed. Hmmm... This IO2001 is becoming a pain in the ass. 06-20-2001 01:23:33

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) 02U2 Profile ratster, What is your bio's pn#? 06-20-2001 04:01:30

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile Ratser: 1) [IMPORTANT] Download v5pmi again 2) use fl to flash it to your IO (Don't use cbrom on it) If this still doesn't work, let me know and I'll see if I can get something going.. maybe switch to something else then back to 3... 06-20-2001 05:29:10

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile I'll try to dink with the BIOS again tonight. I'll let you know what happens. 06-20-2001 09:05:47

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile Okay, here's the latest report on flashing the BIOS in my IO2001... I snagged the v5pMI.bin file again from www.bethie.net and copied it into my DOS-formatted, bootable Sandisk. I booted to the Sandisk, then flashed the BIOS two different ways: one was within FL.exe's UI, and the other from the command line (fl v5pmi.bin /a). Neither flash had any affect. The only FL.exe configuration option that I changed from its default setting was the one that forced a reboot after the flash was over. The earlier flashes had this enabled. This last run of BIOS flashes, I turned it off. Perhaps this is a configuration option issue in FL.exe? If I could get a list of options that others are using, I'll see if mine are the same (there are only about 8 or so options total). (By the way, the BIOS chip is an SST 29EE020 from Badflash.) 06-20-2001 19:50:11

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile Ratster: try it again (download then flash). The Current iteration of v5pmi.bin changes the screen mode to 40 column then back to 80 column, and displays a banner. I also put it into the bios differently (cbrom /pci bi4v.bin) Hopefully this will tackle whatever issues there are with your system/v5 systems.. Let us know.. 06-21-2001 09:33:09

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) *SF* Profile An Option could be to Try FLASH821.EXE Since I haven't Mastered My Sandisk, I had to HotFlash. I-Opener Technical Stuff / Hot flashing bios in the IO Your method should be Safer & easier. Ignore the 2 Error Messages. http://www.freedrive.com (Look it's Not a BADWORD anymore !) User: iopeneriopener Pass: iopener 06-21-2001 10:15:52

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) ratster Profile Programmer - Thanks again for the effort! Unfortunately, nothing has changed. I downloaded the June 21st version of v5pmi.bin (it turns out the last one I tried before that was the one posted on the 18th. At some point, the filename went from "v5pMI.bin" to "v5pmi.bin", but I was downloading the v5pMI.bin file. I definitely got the newest one this time). There must be something screwy with the machine. I mean, it looks like it's writing the BIOS image (it takes about 15-20 seconds to get through the "Programming..." part, then it verifies and says everything worked). But nothing seems to be changing, at least not with the initial graphic Award BIOS screen. If you have an older (i.e. not a v5, but nonetheless usable) BIOS image that I can try just to see if ANY images can be flashed on this machine, I'll be willing to give it a whirl. As long as I can boot (assuming the other image writes successfully) and go back to the v5 BIOS, I'll be fine. SF - Thanks for the pointer to the flash utility, but that's the same one I downloaded from bethie.net. Good thought, though. 06-21-2001 19:41:06

RE:Bought bios from badflash but still can not access bios. (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile ratster: lets move this to http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=2277 I found the problem.. The computer that I had tested howto make an option rom on (one I have at work) does not make a checksum of the rom. The IOpener bios does. The 8 bit checksum of an option rom must be 0. Hence I wrote a program (in VB) that takes a .com file and turns it into a .bin file that is an option rom and has a checksum of 0. http://bethie.net/~programmer/com2rom.zip I also used it to create a new v5mpi.bin http://bethie.net/~programmer/v5pmi.bin and a new bi4v.bin http://bethie.net/~programmer/bi4v.bin 06-22-2001 07:44:48

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