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486DX4 BIOS upgrade ...
I am trying to resurrect an old 486DX4 system that came with some
perks (video card, 32MB ram, modem, sound card, etc.) but, alas, no hard drive ... Hey, it was free! That didn't bother me so much because I have a couple of old hard drives kicking around. One is 7GB while the other is 8GB (both by Maxtor and under the 8.4 GB barrier). I have identified the MoBo to be a Gigabyte GA-486AM/S (UMC chipset) with Award BIOS 4.50PG dated 06/22/95. As some of you experienced user can tell I ran into a little snag trying to set up these hard drives. I have downloaded an overlay program from the Maxtor website (i.e. MaxBlast 3.6) in preparation for their setup but they are not even detected by the BIOS. Manually setting the parameters doesn't help. I believe my only recourse it to attempt to upgrade the BIOS on this system to the last update put out by Award / Gigabyte put out for this system. This system has the UMC 8881E/8886B Chipset and has "2A4X5G0HC-00" as the BIOS ID. Does anyone know anywhere I can get the image of a BIOS to upgrade my system so I could use these hard drives on my system? Any comments or suggestions are welcome. TIA |
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