12-03-2011, 06:05 PM
Ok, new to BIOS flashing. This shouldn't be to hard. Let's see...to flash the first thing you need to know is whether your platform is Award, AMI, or Phoenix. Splash screen should look like a star, a triforce, or phoenix logo. I don't think "little blue man" is listed anywhere. Oh it tells me Phoenix-Award on the startup. Here in the BIOS info it says it's Award-Phoenix. Alright, backwards compatibility always a good thing. Oh hey they had a merger so it's both, ok skip that for now...
Next step is identifying the BIOS version. 1st digit is BIOS maker, 2nd is chipset, 3rd is processor class, 4th is date but thats only on older versions. On newer versions 1st is maker, 2-5 is model #, 6-7 = ?, and the numbers after the v. refer to the BIOS Version/Date. Another says 1 is maker 2-5 = model, 6th is chipset, 7-8 = ??, and every number after the v refers to the BIOS version/date, but all that syntax still differs depending on BIOS vendor. Maby it's just me but I wish there was some sort of standard.
Core version is 6.0, BIOS Revision is 3.47, previously 3.40, SMBIOS version is 2.4, Award BIOS v6.00PG. The board's serial is MXK61006M8, product # ER883AA-ABA product name M7470n. The BOM# is 0ny111400, not mother board, but it's on the motherboard but that's also considered a mobo but the number on the BIOS chip says W7093BH5340. W = Award Phoenix, 7093 is the model name, B = ???, H5 = Hewlett-Packard, and 340 must mean 3.40. I gotta break the code. BIOS ID is 03/03/2006RS480-SB400-6A666M4DC-00-none. Says my chipset is Althlon 1100 rev 0 even though It's ATI RS480 SB400 chipset. I can't be offset by these lies. Microsstar manufacturer or HP? DC model...DC comics....batman... it all adds up!
If I take the SMBIOS and reverse it and multiply it by 10 it becomes 42. If I take board# x the serial number - the letter-number-form of the model number and add the chipsetts by every other date I get 13. If I take the number of flash utilities by the version and types, round by the bus offset I get 45. x86 assembly language. 86 is a happy number, the 4th and 5th happy numbers are 13 and 19. 19 - 13 = 6. 6 + 13 = 19. 42 - 19 = 23. Numbers...NUMBERS!! blaaaAAARG!!! *jumps out window*
Next step is identifying the BIOS version. 1st digit is BIOS maker, 2nd is chipset, 3rd is processor class, 4th is date but thats only on older versions. On newer versions 1st is maker, 2-5 is model #, 6-7 = ?, and the numbers after the v. refer to the BIOS Version/Date. Another says 1 is maker 2-5 = model, 6th is chipset, 7-8 = ??, and every number after the v refers to the BIOS version/date, but all that syntax still differs depending on BIOS vendor. Maby it's just me but I wish there was some sort of standard.
Core version is 6.0, BIOS Revision is 3.47, previously 3.40, SMBIOS version is 2.4, Award BIOS v6.00PG. The board's serial is MXK61006M8, product # ER883AA-ABA product name M7470n. The BOM# is 0ny111400, not mother board, but it's on the motherboard but that's also considered a mobo but the number on the BIOS chip says W7093BH5340. W = Award Phoenix, 7093 is the model name, B = ???, H5 = Hewlett-Packard, and 340 must mean 3.40. I gotta break the code. BIOS ID is 03/03/2006RS480-SB400-6A666M4DC-00-none. Says my chipset is Althlon 1100 rev 0 even though It's ATI RS480 SB400 chipset. I can't be offset by these lies. Microsstar manufacturer or HP? DC model...DC comics....batman... it all adds up!
If I take the SMBIOS and reverse it and multiply it by 10 it becomes 42. If I take board# x the serial number - the letter-number-form of the model number and add the chipsetts by every other date I get 13. If I take the number of flash utilities by the version and types, round by the bus offset I get 45. x86 assembly language. 86 is a happy number, the 4th and 5th happy numbers are 13 and 19. 19 - 13 = 6. 6 + 13 = 19. 42 - 19 = 23. Numbers...NUMBERS!! blaaaAAARG!!! *jumps out window*