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des,

Thanks! While I am leery of running beta code nd usually don't even look
at beta BIOSes, the BIOS is badly enough broken that I will give this
one a try.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:00:33 +0200
> 
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> > Yes, it is the latest BIOS available. I doubt that ASUS will ever
> > release a new version, considering how old this card is. The BIOS I am
> > running was released on July 7, 1999. :-(
> 
> Go to
> 
> http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=3DP5A&Type=3DBI=
> OS
> 
> Select Beta (instead of Release) and you will see there's a newer BIOS
> available (1011-005, dated some time in 2002).  Amongst other issues,
> it should fix support for disks larger than 32 GB (the latest Release
> BIOS will hang during POST if a large disk is connected).  I'm running
> an older BETA myself, 1010-001 IIRC.
> 
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
>