Is anyone else experiencing problems with the new modified BIOS while booting? Every thing was ok with the old BIOS. I had win98 on a IBM 2.1G 2.5" drive, no DOC. I tried a Seagate 1.2G, no luck. The new BIOS will autodetect the drive but it will comeup with "press key to reboot" every time. I put DOS6.22 on also. same thing. Now a previously installed DOS6.22 on a 500Meg drive will boot just fine with the new bios. Beats me. Drive geometery problem? I have tried lots of thing even sam settings as Misfit. No joy. I can alway just reburn the old BIOS on my EMP20 programmer and be happy with a ISA LAN card. I would like to get the onboard LAN going and the old BIOS should effect that also.
Greg
05-02-2000 15:20:26
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timlee
Quick question: how do you modify the BIOS? do I have to boot into DOS, first? or do you do it through QNX? Thanks.
05-02-2000 15:40:08
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Rick
You need to set your boot partition to active using fdisk. You would have to do that off of another computer since there is no floppy on the websurfer.
05-02-2000 15:58:32
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_MiSFiT_
I have not had any problems with 3 different drives, with the NEW modified bios.
(does not mean it's you, just that I have had 3 out of 3 work for me)
1 - 2 Gig
1 - 6.4 Gig
1 - 2.5 Gig
Make sure your power off the unit then back on when you try changing settings. I don't think a warm reboot makes any changes you make catch sometimes..
timlee: I used command mode (or whatever) F8 when windows starts up. used the award burning util. I have a burner also. reburned this way, just in case, also. No joy.
Rick: Yes, I used another system and active partion was set every time. :)
Misfit: I might have missed a few reboot using the 3 finger salute but I power cycle most of the time. Ill keep working on it. :)
Greg
05-02-2000 17:46:31
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done waitin
has anyone tried the 4 bios files that were found on the websurfer web pages???
they are all in the 4bios.zip on diverse's web site
wslogo.bin
AWARD BIOS WORKS! PCI fixed. Setup. Looks like old bios based on the USB selection.
Greg
05-02-2000 22:42:07
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2cats1dog
With the newer BIOS is there floppy support?
Is it working with an external controller?
I am planning on trying the internal Floppy controller, but I would like to know it it looks like there is support.
05-04-2000 14:00:36
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HelpingHand
Hey guys... this is a possibility as well. make sure that you are using LBA on both computers that are accessing the drive. If one is using LBA and the other is using CHS or BigCHS, you will only get problems, no booting.
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