The new C3500 comes with a BIOS dated 9/11/04. This BIOS crashes everytime any drive recovery utility is booted from CD. This includes Acronis, DriveImage, etc. The old BIOS dated 7/03/04 works flawlessly to boot Acronis and PowerQuest. How can I revert my BIOS back to the old version? Does anyone have the old BIOS saved somewhere? Averatec technical support is worthless. They seem to think that the Recovery Disks will fix the problem. The recovery disks restore the hard drive, not the BIOS! Worthless.

I could use thel old BIOS too. Have you received ANY answers?

Michaela

I may now be able to help you. Please advise :)

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Misch: What do you mean you may now be able to help?? Did you get a copy of the old bios?? Please please... if you did, post it somewhere.. Or let me know, and I'll host it on my server..

TIA..

I emailed Averatec about the old BIOS version and they sent me the files.
I have set up a wiki with information regarding my progress, and the files
are linked near the bottom.

http://darthik.com/dwiki/Averatec_20C3500

I can't seem to figure out how you can install this old BIOS version though..
any help would be great.

Thanks.

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Donnie

um so I reverse engineered the insyde flash product and now I have it so that it can be used to up date any BIOS.ROM version. I am not sure where to post it though...

BIOS files location changed on my site:
http://darthik.com/ -- look in the "howtos" section.

No need to reverse the code... the InsydeFlash utility always let me go backwards.. (even though it said it wasn't going to.. )

I've got a copy of all the bios versions available on my site as well...
http://www.linuxkidd.com/c3500/

Just the one file that contains all the bios's and utiltities w/ instructions.

Tech support wouldn't help me with my 6100. The restore software wasn't even installed on my averatec. They won't send me a recovery disk so I have to mail it in to them.

Waste of my time. They were pretty friendly when they weren't helping.