Recently I acquired an old Pentium MMX system (for free I might add). I'll just list the top-end specs for a laugh:
Pentium MMX 200mhz
5I-VX1E motherboard (Intel chipset)
32mb ram (1xdimm module)
Trident 3D Image 9750 4mb PCI
Crystal CX4235 ISA soundcard
2gb Seagate HD
The problem currently is the hard drive, 2gb simply isn't enough (yeah I know the rest of the system is kinda limited atm too, but hey
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However whilst i've got a spare 40gb that I could use, the bios currently on the pc only supports hard drives up to 8gb. I've found a bios update from 1999 which removes this limitation amongst other things, however it's downloaded from a russian site. My concern is are bios(es) region specific? Or are they always in English? I've never attempted a update before, so I wouldn't know to be honest... and the thought of flashing the bios and finding everything is written in some foreign language makes me worried a bit.
http://www.rom.by/bios/LS/ << bios is from here
http://th99.pley.org/m/I-L/36004.htm << the motherboard version
Anyway as mentioned i've downloaded it, and also found the award flash utility (nabbed from the ECS site). ECS has a guide to flashing a pc's bios so I more or less know how to do it correctly, but I need to check this concern I have with people here before I attempt it. Please tell me if i've got something wrong/will be doing something wrong. Thanks.
EDIT: Better point out which one I downloaded too I guess, I nabbed the 5I-VX1E one of course (9GFE-0).
) is archived in .rar format. I was concerned that if I downloaded the .bin file as is, I could risk flashing the bios with a corrupted file (god knows how long it's been stored on their servers). Whereas that risk is less viable with an archived file, as if it had been corrupted I wouldn't be able to extract it.
