Re: Extra RAM Installation Blues Vol 3

"Hawkeye23" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mc02s193bs7g0d2njrp25ra29398ca90b4@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:11:34 +0000, Charlie Drake
> <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hawkeye23 wrote:
<snip>
>>> Charlie Drake has pointed me to some BIOS updates on the QDI
>>> website for my QDI mobo but (a) I wonder if these are QDI BIOSes
>>> rather than Award and

They are Award BIOSes, but yes, they are customised for the QDI
Motherboards - that's the way all Motherboard Manufacturers do it.
They buy (License) the BIOS Software itself from Award (or Phoenix
or AMI or whoever) & then Customise it for their own particular
Motherboards.

>>> (b) I can't download them anyway 'cos the QDI seems
>>> excruciatingly slow and keeps randomly asking for a password and

Yes I also found that QDI site very slow.

>>> (c) keeps telling me I need to download a Chinese language
>>> version of I don't know what.

Yes, many far eastern Sites do use various Chinese Fonts & Character
Sets on some of their Pages, so if you have your System Set to Prompt
for things like Font Downloads, then you may well get some Prompts.
I normally say no to those sort of Prompts, then look at the Page to see
if I can read it OK.

>>>...You might like to try if you feel strong?

OK...

>> Just downloaded from:
>>
>> http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/support/d_advance10E.htm
>>
>> took seconds for a 395KB .zip file no questions or requests for
>> passwords? Have you tried right clicking on the file and 'save
>> link as'
>
> Have tried your (and Jeff Gaines) links to the QDI site and it's
> definitely very peculiar as described above for me.
> I did manage to download the latest Advance 10B/F BIOS update zip
> files but it was unbelievably slow ie 500-900 bytes(yes bytes) per
> sec on a 512 broadband connection.But it's only the QDI site that
> is like that.Others are normal.What can be the problem.

That Site *is* very slow.

I just tried it (& I tried it this morning as well) & the Page itself
took a long time to come up.
& then when I tried Downloading the BIOS .ZIP File - the one on the Link
which says "A10B_46slcp.zip", which leads to:
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/driver/A10B_V46%20%20slcp.zip

It took 2 Min 48 Sec to Download! - the File is 245 KB (251,614 Bytes)
Which works out at an Average Download (Data Transfer) Speed of only
about 1.46 KB/Sec!
:-(

In that .ZIP File, is a README.TXT File (with Instructions on how
to use it, which incidentally show that yes, it does include an
Option to Backup the existing BIOS) & the AWDFLASH.EXE Utility
& the BIOS File itself (A10BV46.BIN)

> Then the password/chinese language problems.I think these perhaps
> occur when you try to download AWDFLASH.EXE which it tells you to do
> before you download the BIOS update zip file.

Well the AWDFLASH.EXE Utility comes included in that .ZIP File anyway.

> Would you mind trying to see if that happens when you try it.

See above.

> If so how can we get round that.
> Many thanks for your help and interest.

Try it again?
You can either just (Left)Click the Link to the .ZIP File & then choose
"Save File As.." (cos the Operating System will cause a File Download
Prompt Box to come up, cos it's a .ZIP File), or RightClick the Link
& choose "Save Target As...", which will also give you File Download
Dialog Box

But anyway, what happened when you tried the BIOS Option to ReSet
the ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data)?
You may not need the BIOS Update, to sort out your prob, but if you do,
then just try the Download again.

HTH

--
pmj


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