BIOS

Reference the folowing sites
1)www.drivershq.com
2)www5.overture.com
3)www.hardocp.com

Tina, I believe the key here is that your BIOS is dated 1995.
Your best bet may be a 3rd party custom BIOS. At $69, I suspect that you can perform a major upgrade for just a little more money.
You didn't say what your system is, but in 1995, I suspect at best it is a Pentium Pro 200MHz.
At worst, it is a Socket 5 or a 486.

Either way, a newer system will take care of all your problems. For $200-$300, you can jump ahead 4-5 generations.

If you want to try the BIOS upgrade, you first need to identify who made your motherboard.
From www.wimsbios.com it looks like you have an aopen board.

2A5ICABA-00: Aopen (model: ???)

You can go to www.aopen.com and identify your exact motherboard, and see if they have a bios update.

Another option that would give you some of the benefit of a new motherboard would be to add in an IDE card such as the Promise Ultra ATA100.
This would give you ATA100 drive speed, and support for larger hard drives.

If you are looking for a fast solution then go to ZNET.COM and download Sandra 8.11 from Sisoft. This ultility is a shareware, but the it will allow you to access some of its tool, which will be all that you need. You can use this tool to check whattype of Motherboard and BIOS. You can use this information to find the update on the NET. Fast and simple. If this is not a solution for I would recommend buying a newer system. You will have a lot more support for WIN2000 and 1.6HDD.

Hey,

You need to go to your computer's website (dell.com for example) and find the latest flash bios update!

Hope this helps you!

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