I can't believe this, I did it!...........and I can't understand why all the
websites were making such a fuss about a Phoenix bios! I found it really
straight forward, and it only took a couple of seconds.
I was quite nervous to start with though, because on the Fujitsu-siemens
site, I found two flash update bios's for the D1170, and so I assumed they
were both intended to go on the one floppy.(Both were different sizes when I
checked properties)
Everytime I tried to load one on, it over-wrote the initial one, and vice
versa, and when I tried to drag and drop the second one to the A drive,
there wasn't enough room.
In the end, after a lot of swearing, I took the chance, just loaded the
biggest file to the floppy, and went for it. (printing out the instructions
I found, not realising they wouldn't even coincide with what actually
happened on screen)
If I remember rightly, the only thing I had to do was press 'y' twice, then
enter. I think that was about it.
Then the system restarted, and the error message is gone.
I'm using it now, and it seems fine, although I still only have 63mb ram
according to windows.(makes sense about the 1mb being used)
I do have a 128mb stick of ram installed, could half of the ram have failed
or something? I don't know if that's possible, or would it all fail at once?
Thank you all so much for all the advice about flashing the bios, I feel so
stupid now, it was so easy.
I've made sure I kept the floppy for the future, as I have 2 of these
boards. (Haven't attempted to use the second one yet, it's still in the
packaging, but I've got the flash update ready)
I've seen the difference in the performance already though.
Thanx again,
Michele Sayer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Bios Flash Update D1170A m/b


> Dear Michele:
>
> I checked your support site and the BIOS flash program for your D-1170-A
> motherboard is a Windows self extracting file:  1170119 which you can
> download from the motherboard manufacturer's site.  The need for flashing
> would depend on the BIOS revision you now have but if your board does not
> pickup the 800 Celeron it will also be lowering the ram speed.  After
> downloading double click on this file, follow directions and extract it to
> your floppy drive.  The documentation is not very good on this site I
agree
> but the file is there.  If you read the notes on the extracted floppy and
> knowing you must have a flash utility program, replacement BIOS and system
> files on the floppy disk by reading what they give you in the form of text
> messages should be enough to get the job done.
>
> The drivers for your motherboard if needed would likely deal more with
hard
> drive speed and special I/O optimization related to the 810e chipset as
these
> drivers are installed to the operating system and do not reside in the
EEPROM
> BIOS.
>
> Your ram showing half its value is related to ram density, the motherboard
> circuitry and the chipset bootup.  It is normal for the Intel chipset 810e
to
> reserve 1 MB of ram for bootup before the video card takes over.  In order
to
> see all the ram it must be low density but it will still only show 127 MB
> during the ram check.
>
> Good luck and keep trying.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Scott
>
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