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New Ferrari 4000 3A23 BIOS

post #1 of 49
11/24/05 at 5:11pm
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It's avaliable on the Panamerican support site:
http://support.acerpanam.com/synapse...words=&pupv=pu

The BIOS date is 10/24/05. There is no release notes that I know, so no idea on what has been changed from the previous ones

It can be flashed either using the Winflash utility or the DOS one (phlash16.exe). I did the 2nd way since I have XP x64 and I don't think the Windows utility will run on it.

Happy flashing
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post #2 of 49
11/24/05 at 6:36pm
We Have To Try It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #3 of 49
11/24/05 at 6:39pm
Excellent find... now I need to make a DOS boot CD :-)
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post #4 of 49
11/24/05 at 6:42pm
Anyone try it ???????

What about the fan ?
What about pc3200 RAM ???
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post #5 of 49
11/24/05 at 7:00pm
tried it and now cpu-z is showing 1591.2MHz instead of 1600MHz.
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post #6 of 49
11/24/05 at 7:07pm
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Originally Posted by imannudein
tried it and now cpu-z is showing 1591.2MHz instead of 1600MHz.
What about the fan ???
1591 instead of 1600 ???
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post #7 of 49
11/24/05 at 7:09pm
The fan is already on ???!?!????
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post #8 of 49
11/24/05 at 8:10pm
yup. now i got 9MHz less.
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post #9 of 49
11/24/05 at 8:38pm
No changes in fan speed as far as I can notice... Still loud as ****
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post #10 of 49
11/25/05 at 12:33am
does this bios update fix the ram problem?
And I don't find the fan loud, its quite quiet compared to my desktop and I have to be trying to hear it, to hear it.
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post #11 of 49
11/25/05 at 5:04am
does this bios update fix the ram problem ???????
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post #12 of 49
11/25/05 at 11:47am
The F4005 doesn't have a RAM problem... it runs eaxctly as advertised...
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post #13 of 49
11/25/05 at 11:52am
I believe he means to ask if they enabled the ddr3200 or if it is still at 2700
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post #14 of 49
11/25/05 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by Psychotic_UK
I believe he means to ask if they enabled the ddr3200 or if it is still at 2700
extactly

however someone here in Italy tryed this new bios and told me that it doesn't fix the RAM problem!!!

it's absourd!
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post #15 of 49
11/25/05 at 2:30pm
I submit a new thread on biosmods.com asking a mod bios for Ferrari 4000, if you want to collaborate go here:

http://forums.biosmods.com/
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post #16 of 49
11/25/05 at 7:52pm
I am running WinXP x64 too, but when I tried to load the PHLASH16.exe, it tells me that it can not function with memory managers running I.E. HIMEM.SYS.

But I don't see any memory managers in my boot disk?

Can a BIOS update not be done with a boot disk made by XP x64?

Please help.
Thanks.
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post #17 of 49
11/25/05 at 8:33pm
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For PHLASH16.exe I used a clean Windows 98 boot disk on a USB memory drive.

There's an HP utility for preparing that setup easily. See here http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/20306.html

These ones are the boot files I used: http://aaltonen.us/downloads/HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip

Finally set the BIOS to boot from the USB drive (Enter the BIOS with the USB drive connected, go to boot options, select from Hard disks first, add the USB drive *before* the hard disk) and you are done.
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post #18 of 49
11/25/05 at 11:56pm
Thanks a bunch aromanos.

Wierd too how the flash program beeped constantly through the update process.

Anyway, still no DDR-400 (PC3200) support.

And now, my CPU is reported at 1989.8 MHz, with a 199 MHz front side bus.

But, it seems, at-least right now, that my CPU utilization has dropped.
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post #19 of 49
11/26/05 at 12:40am
Mine also runs at 795.9MHz with a FSB at 199MHz. Also the RAM runs at 159.2MHz instead of 166MHz.

So basically this bios release just downclocks our laptops so as to get better battery life?

If so is there a way to go back to A321 BIOS?
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post #20 of 49
11/26/05 at 4:21am
Forget about my coment regarding CPU utilization.

And to get the 3A21 BIOS back, just reflash with that BIOS image.
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