Chicony MP995 laptop

BIOS ID string: 02/11/2000-BANISTER-2A69NC2AC-00
Old BIOS OEM string: V1.17 02/11/2000
New BIOS OEM string: V1.17 02/11/2000 patched for 128GB HDD by Wim's BIOS team

As usual:
- you flash at your own risk
- read and follow the flash utility instructions. 
- we recommend you clear the CMOS ( take notes of how it is set up first if you want) after flashing - use /cc and /cd switches with the Award flasher.
- remember that you *may* need to run the HDD manufacturer's utility to reduce the transfer rate of a UDMA66 or UDMA100 drive to UDMA33. See the post "links to ATA mode setting utilities" in the "Collected Wisdom" forum at Wim's BIOS forums.
- if you have already used Disk Manager, EZ-Drive or similar, getting rid of it may be VERY hard. You will probably have to "fdisk /mbr", repartition and reformat the disk and maybe run the manufacturer's utility to reset the disk size.
- remember that FAT32 in Windows 2000 does not allow single partitions over 32GB in size - an operating system which supports NTFS partitions is required.
- remember that for Windows 98 an updated FDISK is required from Microsoft to handle disks over 64GB in size. FORMAT may also have issues displaying the correct size but should work.
**Please note that to simplify the automatic patching process, the disk capacity display has not been patched and the capacity may not be displayed correctly in the configuration report screen or CMOS setup. For example, a 120 Gbyte disc could show as 2139 Mbytes.

**Please report success/failure to Wim's BIOS forums.


Patcher output (please ignore):

D:\Hardware\Chicony>..\award\awd64gb 995v117.bin
AWD64GB.EXE - Award BIOS patcher for HDDs over 32GB & 64GB v0.9
Copyright (c) 2002 Rainbow Software (http://rainbow.ht.st).

Searching for Main Block...Found at 131072
Searching for end of last block...Found at 212697
Decompressing Main Block...Decompressed 81621 bytes into 131072 bytes
BIOS ID string: 02/11/2000-BANISTER-2A69NC2AC-00
BIOS OEM string: V1.17 02/11/2000
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
New-style code found at 2904
=> 32GB bug patched successfully
Searching for size calculation routine...Not found
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...Not found
Searching for XGroup Block...Found at 0
Searching for end of last block...Found at 66198
Decompressing XGroup Block...Decompressed 18491 bytes into 27408 bytes
Searching for size calculation routine...is already OK
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...is already OK
Replacing Main Block...Compressed into 81621 bytes...Move not needed
Updating checksum...Located at 229374...Updated OK