Bios Savior Is Great.... Almost.

[ravix]

I got a bios savior last week so I can experiment with some third party bios's for my nf7-s. Its awesome, and it works perfectly, except for one small oddity. Every time I boot from rd1 (the bios savior memory), my ethernet doesn't work. I have no internet and no lan. This is regardless of what bios I have installed on the rd1. In fact, if I have the EXACT same bios on the original chip and the rd1, the original will have internet and the rd1 will not.

 

I am flashing the bios with awdflash.exe, from the abit webste. And I am using onboard ethernet from my nf7-s.

 

Specs are in my sig, but the 2500+ is actually a 2500+ mobile.

 

 

 

 

 

offtopic:

Now that I have tried the tictac bios's, I am a true believer. Instantly, I went from a stable 225 -> 235fsb. It truly opened up my nf7.

[Overclocker16]

IMO, I'd just test the BIOS via the chip savior. If it works flawlessly, put it as the normal BIOS and back the one on the mobo up on the savior, that way you'll be sure.

[ravix]

I got my answer from the abit-forums, and I thought you guys might be interested.

 

Hi ravix -

 

The MAC address hard-coded in your original BIOS is different from the MAC address coded in your RD1-PMC4 BIOS Savior. Your ISP (probably Cable??) uses your MAC address to authenticate you for connection to the web.

 

You can work around this by booting with your original chip and, at a CMD prompt, type IPCONFIG /ALL and write down the Physical Address of your Ethernet Adaptor (this is your MAC address).

 

Then go into the properties sheet for your Ethernet Adaptor in Device Manager, on the Advanced tab, and enter your MAC address in the appropriate field - this will override the address obtained from your BIOS chip.

 

For the nForce1 boards there used to be a MACFIX program from nVidia floating around where you could alter the MAC address in your BIOS... but... unfortunately... it doesn't work on nForce2 boards.

 

Jef

 

It worked like a charm.