S2668: unable to flash BIOS

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"Walter H." wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does this bios file
> ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios/2668_105.zip
> have any problem,
> because I get the error that it is unable to read the biosfile
> 2668v105.bin,
> after starting the flashing procedure with flash.bat ...
>
> of course I start the flashing procedure from a clean dos bootdisk
> without config.sys or autoexec.bat
>
> the other thing: why is the 2668v105.bin file dated with sept. 15 2004
> while
> the page says, that this release is from oct. 15, 2004?
>
> flashing the bios with previous releases worked fine. my actual bios
> release: 1.03
>
> my hardware configuration:
>
> iXeon 2.4 GHz dual-cpu with 533 MHz FSB
> 1024 MB ECC-DDR RAM
> AC97 Realtek Sound and i82551 Ethernet (100base-tx)
> 3COM 3C590C Ethernet Adapter (10base-t)
> Hercules Dynamite/128 (Tseng Labs ET6000 based) with 4 mb
> Adaptec AHA-294x or AIC78xx pci Host-Adapter
> Hauppauge WinTV-FM pci Adapter (848/878 chipset)
> WD400JB-00ENA0 HDDs (3x): primary master, secondary master/slave
> TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1312: primary slave
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> greetings,
> walter

The bug was in the file; I should have seen this myself ;-)

walter