We use an Intel D945GNTL along with P4 631 "Cedar Mill" processor for customized OS/2 operating system computers. The place we source the boards and CPU's from this last time sent us ones with customized BIOS's that will not accept the flash upgrade to the latest BIOS version. I have tried updating with both the bootable ISO image, and also the BIOS recovery floppy methods. Both fail with the same error message.
I had thought that BIOS version 4119 was the latest for this board, however while searching for a way to make the board accept the BIOS update, I found that version 4131 has been available.
I updated to that 4131 version from the 4119 on another like system we have without the customized BIOS splash screen. It successfully upgraded from 4119 to 4131.
Perhaps since the splash screen was customized, is that preventing updating the BIOS version?
Any other suggestions?
Flash BIOS update error screen:
The customized BIOS splash screen:
BIOS Flash update working on another same system we have:
Usual BIOS splash screen on the system which accepted the flash update from 4119 to 4131:
I am thankful,
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems