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Subject: Re: Transmonde BIOS (ATTN: KEN)

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Ken

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Date Posted: 23:51:15 08/02/00 Wed
In reply to: Larry Latson 's message, "Transmonde BIOS (ATTN: KEN)" on 09:47:45 07/06/00 Thu

Just to confirm there are two BIOS' specifically for the different video cards. The copyright dates have nothing to do with anything. During boot, you'll see a "BUILD DATE". This is the date you're interested in. There has not been an update in the BIOS for quite some time (over a year). The only things that changed during the updates was to correct the suspend-to-disk in the C&T65555, and to support the new Pentium-II & Celeron. If I'm not mistaken, the date for the latest BIOS was March 1999 (I think). I think I posted the latest BIOS dates a while ago and I'm sure that message is archived. Sorry I can't be of more assistance. Good luck to all.

> Ken,
> I posted this as a reply to an earlier post and I
> wanted your take on it (I am assuming that you are Ken
> F.,
> who sold me my Vivante SE two years ago):
>
> > In browsing the archives I noticed that Dennis
> > vanLeeuwen posted that he has a BIOS update for
> > pentium/celeron with the C&T69000 video card.
> > However, I have an older SE with the C&T65555. Does
> > anyone know of an upgrade sitting around for that
> > combination?
> >
> > Thanks for any info or leads,
> > -Don
>
> Don-
> I also would be interested in an update (if you ever
> find one!).
>
> I have been in contact with the SystemSoft people, who
> referred me to another company that now controls the
> code. Apparently Transmonde bought the source code to
> their BIOS software and modified however they saw fit.
> This company does NOT have a copy of the BIOS that
> transmonde used.
>
> I have been emailing ASEUSA every week about this for
> a while now and they have yet to respond.
>
> FYI, I have a Vivante SE. Aparently there are (at
> least)
> two copies of the BIOS out there. Mine says Copywright
> 1984-1996, others (newer) say Copywright 1984-1998. I
> don't know if the newer ones have the C&T69000 - my
> SE has the older C&T65555.
>
> So, in summary, we are screwed :) Unless someone who
> reads
> this can contact ASE directly (*cough* ken *cough*)
> and have
> them at least release the update to us (without
> warranty, etc.), then I think we are in trouble.
>
> Hope that answers some questions,
>
> LL

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