Finally bit the bullet and installed W2K

[dZeus]

go to the Abit ftp, as mentioned on their website, and look in the beta section... There is a BIOS for your MoBO, dated 17 May this year, so I guess that one will do

The beta section is where I first found my 100% ACPI compliant BX6r2 BIOS.... Now I've got the official release

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[Brian R.]

Great, thanks a lot.

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[Brian R.]

Flashed my BE6 BIOS with the beta file y'all cited. Didn't do any harm, but didn't automatically enable "ACPI PC" instead of "Standard PC" in Device Manager as I had hoped. What am I missing? Anyone give a suggestion?

Also, the ABIT BIOS update procedure needs a floppy system disk. How do you make a system disk (floppy) using W2K? I ended up having to do the BIOS update in Win98.

Sign me:
Retarded in Rockville

[Vlip]

It's a fact that many people doesn't think about. Before installing Win2K you absolutely need to flash your bios to the latest one. That will save you a lot of time.

A friend of mine lost his COM ports because he didn't do it. And without com ports, no modems, without modem no internet and without internet no bios.
Don't need to tell you he's pissed.
But I finally got a new bios, flashed it. And his Win2k works without any problems right now

Vlip

[Snake-Eyes]

Just a quick update on the BE6 rev 1 BIOS issue- the beta BIOS has evidentally gone release, because it can now be found in the normal BIOS directory on the FTP site (PV revision). I downloaded it and flashed it last night, and have had no problems so far.

As far as making the floppy goes, Abit's just trying to make sure that nobody leaves any miscellaneous TSRs, include HIMEM, etc., in memory when the flash is executed.

To set up the floppy, just create a bootable floppy (from a Win9x system), copy the ABITFAE.BAT file, as well as the extracted .BIN file for the new BIOS to the floppy. Then boot off of it. At the A: prompt, type ABITFAE biosfile_xx.bin to perform the flash.

You then need to shut down, restart, go into the BIOS, LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS. Then change any other parameters in the config back to the way they were before (hdd, processor, etc.). After this, it should work fine.

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Ace

[Brian R.]

Ace - Thanks for the tip. I installed the most recent BIOS and reinstalled W2K. FLASH - ACPI compliant. No problems I can see. Now all my important devices are on IRQ11.

As far as the bootable floppy problem, what I meant was I was unable to create a bootable floppy in W2K. The format options don't include one for transferring system files. Needed to run W98.

[dZeus]

That's right. Win2k does not offer the possibility of making bootable floppies as Win9x does. You have to keep a spare win9x boot-diskette when upgrading to win2k.

by the way: When flashing the BIOS, I prefer booting up from a floppy, and flashing the BIOS itself from a hard drive partition, because I don't want to risk the possibility of bad sectors on floppies (I _always_ seem to get bad sectors on diskettes... that's why I now really hate them, and only use CD's).

Of course this procedure only works when you ahve a FAT16 or FAT32 partition to access from the bootble floppy. Otherwise you are stuck with flashing entirely from floppy.

Brian R. : to answer your question about ACPI: if win2k doesn't automatically install as ACPI, you should run the install again, and when it says "Press F6 to load SCSI drivers...", you should press F5, and select ACPI powermanagement PC something. That should work

[merchant2112]

ok hoew do you switch to acpi win2000. ???

i love win 2 k only two things it don't do is my home control software (vxd problem) and my ch throttle dos program software.

[Brian R.]

To switch to ACPI mode, I had to install the most recent BIOS and reinstall W2K.

[Gurm]

Yah, to get ACPI you must make sure the BIOS does it, and then reinstall Win2k.

You can change from ACPI to standard without a reinstall, but NOT from standard to ACPI.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

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[Brian R.]

Gurm, what if you have already had ACPI as your computer type and you switch to standard. Can you switch back to ACPI under those conditions?

[Gurm]

Brian:

Maybe? I wouldn't. But YMMV, as they say.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Brian R.]

YMMV? (Yo mama makes videos?)

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[Gurm]

Close enough for Government work!

(Actually it's Your Mileage May Vary.)

- Gurm