The reserve was $39.99, I didn't think it would sell at that but wanted to gauge the reaction to it. Needless to say the reserve wasn't met so I still have it.
About the drivers, I do have this file that contains some different BIOS roms for it. Let me know if you want it. There was a text file inside, here's what it said:
05/01/00 -- _MiSFiT_
THIS IS THE NEW OEM Bios with hack I figured out & applied to allow booting from onboard IDE Controller.
If you DO NOT need internal IDE use don't even bother with this, it's no different then the NEW OEM
bios. (Other then the fact you can boot from internal controller)
Please use this with care, I have tested this on 2 unit's but I make no guarantee to it working for
you. The worst I think it would do is screw some data up, you should still be able to flash back to
other versions of the bios.
Many people have already had success with the orginal OEM WebSurfer bios I found, Other cards started
working for people other then ones I had problems with, It seems to have the possibility to resolve allot of
weird problems people have had trying to get numerous devices working in the web surfer. This does not mean
it will fix YOUR problem(s), so if it doesnt please do not bug me about it, I just did this for myself and am
sharing so others can possibly have some benefit.. this is the same EXACT bios as the new OEM bios I found,
hacked to allow the onboard IDE to work.
I really don't know if there are any other problems made by me hacking it to boot of the onboard IDE.
It's been running fine on one of my WebSurfer's for almost a day.
I have included with this zip 3 bios files and the version of awdflash I used to flash my eeprom in
the web surfer pro.
newbios.bin - NEW OEM BIOS - LOGO REMOVED
oldbios.bin - ORIGINAL WEB SURFER BIOS - LOGO REMOVED
newbiosm.bin - MODIFIED NEW OEM BIOS - LOGO REMOVED
awd761.exe - awdflash 7.61
use "awd761 newbiosm.bin /py/sn/cd/cp" to flash new modified bios.
or
use "awd761 newbios.bin /py/sn/cd/cp" to flash new bios.
or
use "awd761 oldbios.bin /py/sn/cd/cp" to flash old bios.
Good Luck and I hope it helps you out! If it does help you out let me know, I would be interested
to see what else it fixed.
_MiSFiT_
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Other Info regarding using this version of the bios:
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In the PNP/PCI Configuration section of the bios make sure to set the section
RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY to MANUAL, NOT Auto.
I would then suggest leaving IRQ 3-9 set to PCI/ISA PnP
and then set IRQ 10-15 to Legacy ISA to avoid any PCI cards in your system from taking any of those
Interrupts. For sure IRQ 15, since the onboard IDE uses INT 15, and if you stick a PCI NIC in, chances
are after a power up it will take IRQ 15 then the internal IDE will not boot. Experiment with it..
MAKE SURE TO POWER OFF THEN BACK ON WHEN CHANGING THE PnP STUFF, warm reboots do not seem to take changes
from that section.
I would NOT recommend installing the UDMA drivers on your websurfer unless you want to risk corrupting
your entire HD. I had it happen twice. Otherwise without UDMA drivers it seems to work fine.
If anyone can figure a way that the UDMA drivers work succesfully let me know. I dont really care
anymore anyhow, now with PCI NIC in use and onboard IDE working that works great for me. No more USB
use has increased my systems overall speed a large amount.
I will list my other current Bios setting in case anyone wants to know:
Standard CMOS, drive c is set to AUTO on both
Bios features is ALL default settings..
Chipset Features is:
SDRAM CAS Latency Time: 2T
SDRAM Clock: 3
16-bit I/O Recovery: 5
8-bit: 5
USB Controller: Disabled
I have power managment disabled at the moment in bios.
PnP/PCI Config:
PNP OS installed: YES
Resources Controlled by: MANUAL
IRQ 10-15 are set to in use by LEGACY ISA
Integrated Peripherals:
IDE HDD Block Mode: Enabled
Primary Channel: Enabled
Master PIO Mode: AUTO
Slave PIO Mode: AUTO
PRIMARY UDMA: DISABLED
SLAVE UDMA: DISABLED
Onboard serial 1: DISABLED
Onboard serial 2: DISABLED
Onboard Parallel: DISABLED
Audio is default settings.
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TEXT FILE THAT CAME WITH THE FIRST RELEASE OF THE OEM BIOS:
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This is the newest OEM bios that I have found that will work in the WebSurfer Pro
I am not responsible in ANY way if you #### up your bios.
I have included with this file the awdflash that I used to succesfully flash the websurfer Pro bios.
I have flashed 2 units so far with this bios.
I have also included within this text the orginal message I posted to the I-hacker bbs to explain what
this bios did for me, and what it COULD do for you..
BTW.. here is the command line I used to flash the bios for those that don't know:
awd761 newbios.bin /py/sn/cd/cp
I Can be found on efnet if you have any out of the ordinary Q's
_MiSFiT_
Orginal BBS post:
from: http://www.kenseglerdesigns.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl
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FIRST,
This post is kinda long..
THIS WILL BREAK YOUR ONBOARD IDE CONTROLLER's ABILITY TO BOOT FROM IT.
THIS WILL BREAK YOUR ONBOARD IDE CONTROLLER's ABILITY TO BOOT FROM IT.
THIS WILL BREAK YOUR ONBOARD IDE CONTROLLER's ABILITY TO BOOT FROM IT.
In order to fix any of this you will HAVE TO reflash your bios in your websurfer.
I think we have a situation SIMILAR to the i-opener, I think the bios that is in the websurfer
is made to be very unsuportive. -- Or its just an OLD outdated version from the original OEM unit.
I took the OEM version of the bios for this unit and re-flashed 1 of my websurfers with it. (I have 2, both I added the onboard IDE connector to) -- This was a NON websurfer based bios. I think it's for the orginal 1030 model.
First thing I noticed there is a couple more options in the bios setup. (boot from on-board lan adapter and some USB legacy support)
Bad thing was that now I could NO LONGER boot from my modified ide controller on mainboard.
I could boot from 2940 now though! which I could NOT do on the old bios, this was cool but it was
just a test.
Well I was trying to figure away to make the new bios boot off the internal controller by using
hiew and comparing the boot strap routines between the original WEBSURFER bios and the newest OEM
bios for that motherboard, I found a couple differences and changed them but was unable to succeed.
(I gave up pretty quick, I still think it can be done) -- Someone should really focus on this, then we can have access back to the onboard IDE controller..
So anyhow, today I decided I would just use the OLD bios so I could use my onboard IDE controller
and stick a PCI network card in it. Well I couldnt get ANY SINGLE pci network card to work in this
damn machine, 0, I tried like 4 different brands. (The closest that came to working was the compaq 10/100)
So I had just about given up when I thought let me see if I can re-flash BACK to the OEM bios and stick 2 cards in the riser socket. (An Intel e100b was the first I tried, and an ISA IDE card that I new worked) -- I had to remove the bracket from the IDE card so that BOTH cards would fit in the riser at the same time. Also you MIGHT need to have the bracket out that holds the PCI inplace at the back of the unit. (I dont know, I had mine out at the time)
Well it still booted, and win98se detected my network card again, and I figured it was going to NOT work like it had not every time before with 4 different network cards...
NOPE! it came right up and worked fine! - So then I pulled the e100b out and stuck a compaq back in, figuring I would try that one that would not work before either.. Yep that one worked also!
ALSO, both times the PCI network card used Int 15, which on my old bios win98se would complain about.
Played a 26 megabyte 192K mp3 with no skipping over the network card. (I did hear a couple tiny high Freq. pops, but I dont know if its the sound support or winamp.. or the output on the websurfer audio)
Can anyone recommend a good mp3 player that is low overhead compared to winamp?
So if anyone needs better then USB network support and wants some information/help this is what wound up working for me. It would not surprise me AT ALL, if more IDE cards started working also because of this. (I cannot promise anything, just that it fixed allot of problems for *ME*) If someone wants to HOST this OEM bios for the WEBSURFER, leave your email here and I will send it.
PLEASE only people that can host this file so others can download it.
Thanks
_MiSFiT_
