Which bios flash utility do I use for MS8303E?
I went to the Main Page of the Bios Setup and this is the informatin there.
BIOS Setup
AMI BIOS Simple Setup Utility -Version 1.21.05
(C) AMI All rights reserved
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The Dos startup page has this on it:
AMI Triangle LOGO, American Megatrends Ami Bios (C) 2000 ami inc
MS8308E Series Release 09/12/2001 S
AMD Duron Processor-750 MHz
Nvram 1gb
Hard drive and cd-rom info
62-0912-001437-00101111-071595-SiS730S-H
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The AMI (WEB Page) bios detector found this info:
MS8308E MATSONIC Socket A SiS 730S
AMIBIOS Motherboard Manufacturer Identification
Version 1.4 (01/12/2004) Copyright 2003 American Megatrends, Inc.
An AMIBIOS ID String :
62-0912-001437-00101111-071595-SiS730S
AMIBIOS ROM Size: 256 KB
BIOS Build Date: Jul 15 1995
Motherboard Manufacturer Code : 1437 - Hsing Tech Enterprise Co., Ltd.
AMIBIOS Build Tag: MS8308E
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The BIos chip has this on it:
686
AMI Bios
1999
AV94
9447

I found a good ROM file to update the bios at driverguide.com (030808.ROM Thanks Jerry) but I still don't know which flash utility to use. Plese help. Paul

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Support Information:
Device Type: BIOS / Motherboard
Manufacturer: Matsonic
Model: MS8308E
Interface: Other
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Age of Device: < 2 years old
FCCID:

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=629&qa5=1&qa7=1500&dp=2&qm0=MS8308E&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Matsonic+BIOS+%2F+Motherboard++MS8308E+Windows+X P+Professional+) | Research manufacturer Matsonic (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=629)

Try these:

http://www.ami.com/support/downloadagreement.cfm?DLFile=support/downloads/amiflash.zip&InpDrvID=90
http://www.biosman.com/bios-flash.html
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=14130
http://www.wimsbios.com/biosutil.jsp
http://www.nodevice.com/driver/AMI_Flash_Utility/get14755.html

For help/instructions, go here:
http://www.ami.com/support/bios.cfm
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/ami-bios-update.html

And these pages might help:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/extra/flashutl/amiflash.htm
http://tyan.com/archive/support/html/flash_utilities.html
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=html&name=service_note#ami