How does one incorporate the highpoing 2.32 bios into BD7-Raid bios?

[deam]

I want to upgrade the bios and drivers, but don't know how to change the bios for the BD7-R from 2.31 to 2.32.
Is there a specific program to do it?

 

[cdier]

Instructions

Instructions

It is very easy to update your Award MB bios file with the new HPT bios using the cbrom dos program - the newest version of cbrom is 215

1. Just load cbrom215.exe, mb award bios file, new hpt bios file on a floppy

2. Insert bootable floppy and boot to dos a prompt

3. type cbrom215.exe bd7_92.bin /d (bd7_92.bin is mb bios file name)

4. this will display info about files contained in your bios - look at the two files listed under pci a & b - under one of those you will see the HPT 231 or 232 bios file listed

5. Then type cbrom215.exe bd7_92.bin / pci release
It will prompt you as to relase a or b - select the one which contained the HPT 231 or 232 bios - it will confirm that file was released

6. Then type cbrom215.exe bd7-92.bin /pci bios372s.233 (bios372s.233 this is the new HPT 2.33 bios - can also flash to 2.32 if you have or want that HPT bios file) will confirm the new hpt bios was added

7. then type cbrom215.exe bd7-92.bin /d - this will again show all files in your bios just confirm that the new HPT bios is in pci a or b whichever you removed the old one from

Just load the new HPT drivers prior to flashing to your new bios

thats it - very easy

Get the cbrom215 program here -

http://www.stormpages.com/crazyape/cbrom.html


thanks steven , original post :

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104239&highlight=cbrom

 

[Spacepiston]

yea but..

Is there any advantage to flashing to 2.32 over 2.31?

 

[F0]

3. Revision History
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v2.32 07/01/2002
* Fix 48bit LBA formatting issue
* Fix hptpro.sys problem on Windows XP system restore and sparse files
* use PMM to allocate BIOS memory
* Disable BIOS EBDA reallocation by default

v2.31 01/09/2002
* Performance improved
* Fix BIOS compatibility issue with Adaptec SCSI
* Fix Seagate Barracuda III and IV mode to ATA100
* Show capacity by 1G=1,000,000,000 Bytes
* Fix BIOS bug "drive capacity incorrect after deleting a broken array"

v2.3 12/20/2001
* Add support for stripe size 128K-2M
* Support multi controller
* Modify driver for HPT370/370A compatibility
* Fix reading ATA/133 disk error when PCI clock is lower than 33MHz
* Fix compatibility problem with Intel IAA driver under Windows ME
* Fix BIOS compatibility issue with MSI845 mainboard

v2.2 12/08/2001

* Performance improved
* Fix GUI re-open bug when rebuilding an array

v2.1 11/15/2001

* Add 48bit LBA (Big Drive) support
* Fix BIOS display problem on S3 display adapter
* Fix BIOS BBS support
* Fix Windows ME hibernating problem