Mark, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that the BIOS on this
motherboard reports itself to be unflashable, but that this is incorrect,
that in fact it IS flashable, providing that one has the correct flash
program, but that the proper flash program might be labelled the same as the
ones that don't work. Hmm.

Well, all I can say is, the version of the flash program that WILL report
this BIOS to be flashable, has so far eluded me.

And the company which assembled this PC about 4 years back, also consider
this motherboard to be unflashable.

So I think we'll just run with a 40G drive which, until we re-situate it
into a PC with a sensible motherboard, temporarily considers itself to be a
33G drive.


Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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"The entire Asus P2L97 series and all the variants like P2L97-S will
recognize hard drives to 124GB with an updated BIOS. The later BIOSes
issued after the board was out of production Asus  often called "Beta"
but they aren't really experimental.

Early versions of these P2L97  boards often had a BIOS limit of 33GB

There is a problem though in upgrading BIOS on some Asus
boards.Especially P2L97 series  and TX97 series Some of Asus versions
of Award Flash (with the very same download filename) falsely report
that the BIOS chip is of a type cannot be flashed.

That's the root of this problem posted in this thread.

I have had success with Award Flash programs from the original  P2L97
and TX97 motherboard CDs also with flash programs from SOME Asus FTP
sites particularly their German website -which I haven't visited
recently-  Curious that flash programs that work have the same
filename than the ones that don't work. Also some generic flash
programs from Award work.

The Asus P2L97 series boards are unusually stable hardware."

Mark Paulson

California

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