Acorp 5TX52


BIOS ID string: 07/22/1998-i430TX-2A59ISWBC-00
Old BIOS OEM string: ACORP 5TX52 Ver:H
New BIOS OEM string: ACORP 5TX52 Ver:H patched for 128GB HDD by Wim's BIOS team


Please note:
- you flash at your own risk
- read and follow the flash utility instructions. 
- we recommend you clear the CMOS ( take notes of how it is set up first if you want) after flashing - use /cc and /cd switches with the Award flasher.
- remember that you *may* need to run the HDD manufacturer's utility to reduce the transfer rate of a UDMA66 or UDMA100 drive to UDMA33. See the post "links to ATA mode setting utilities" in the "Collected Wisdom" forum at WIM's BIOS forums.
- if you have already used Disk Manager, EZ-Drive or similar, getting rid of it may be VERY hard. You will probably have to fdisk/mbr, repartition and reformat the disk and maybe run the manufacturer's utility to reset the disk size.
- remember that FAT32 does not allow single partitions over 32GB in size - an operating system which supports NTFS partitions is required.
- remember that for Windows 98 an updated FDISK is required from Microsoft to handle disks over 64GB in size.

**Please note that to simplify the automatic patching process, the disk capacity display has not been patched and the capacity may not be displayed correctly in the configuration report screen or CMOS setup. For example, a 120 GByte disc could show as 2139 Mbytes.

**Please report success/failure to Wim's BIOS forums.


Patcher output:
AWD64GB.EXE - Award BIOS patcher for HDDs over 32GB & 64GB v0.9
Copyright (c) 2002 Rainbow Software (http://rainbow.ht.st).

Searching for Main Block...Found at 0
Searching for end of last block...Found at 105139
Decompressing Main Block...Decompressed 86913 bytes into 131072 bytes
BIOS ID string: 07/22/1998-i430TX-2A59ISWBC-00
BIOS OEM string: ACORP 5TX52 Ver:H
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
New-style code found at 7688
=> 32GB bug patched successfully
Searching for size calculation routine...Not found
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...Found at 97254
Searching for another free space...Found at 97754
Searching for XGroup Block...Found at 86915
Searching for end of last block...Found at 105139
Decompressing XGroup Block...Decompressed 8032 bytes into 11869 bytes
Searching for size calculation routine...Found at 2306
Searching for free space...Found at 11869
Patching code at 2305
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...Not found
Replacing Main Block...Compressed into 86953 bytes...Moved blocks by 40 bytes
Replacing XGroup Block...Compressed into 8088 bytes...Moved blocks by 56 bytes
Updating checksum...Located at 114686...Updated OK