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Award BIOS Flash
Name: swalters Date: June 1, 2001 at 00:54:57 Pacific
Comment:
Can somebody please help me find a flash update for my Award Modular Bios 4.51PG which is dated at 1995. Everytime I find the awdflash.exe it always says you need to flash your bios first. I have looked everywhere for the update and cant find it.
Name: Bryan Date: June 1, 2001 at 05:35:33 Pacific
Reply:
I am using the M6TBA V-3 and find that the only things that can be updated with the flash are being able to see PIII instead of limited to seeing PII and being able to see max CPU prcessor speed greater than 550mhz.
The M6TBA is now in the "Museum" section and no longer has much information. I did however copy the HTML page with the jumper settings. The links, of course, are no longer supported but there is more info than you will find at Biostar.
If you are using M6TBA then see the email I sent you. If you are not then delete my email.
Summary: The 'Award Modular Bios v4.51PG' is a basic template supplied by Award. Then the motherboard or system manufacturer writes to it the specific details they want for the motherboard. The bios you downl...
Summary: because you haven't got the correct program to flash your BIOS. At a guess you are using the "Award" BIOS Flash tool and your Motherboard doesn't have an "AWARD" BIOS or The version of the Flash Tool...