ROM flashing of an very old ROM version P-IV card

[MozzerFan]

If you really want to try again, try flashing to 1.11
from the picasso96 yahoogroup. If that one works, try
upgrading from 1.11 to 7.4.
If the 1.11 update also does not work, I would just let it
be. Maybe your piv version is too old then.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

You could try one more thing. If you have other zorro
cards in your machine, remove them and try again.
But if your flickerfixer works fine I would just let it
be. It would be problematic though, if you ever want a
paloma or concierto addon.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

BTW just looked in my paloma manual. It says that if the
firmware needs updating, you will be notified. During
updating, the mousepointer and OS will freeze for a couple
of seconds. You should receive a message when updating has
finished.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

The paloma manual says the mouse freezes for a couple of
seconds during updating. The readme in the firmwareupdate
archive just says that if updating is successful you get a
message. Must be something like 'update successfull' . You
have to reboot after updating the firmware.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

Well I guess that means you just can't update the
firmware. Which is a real shame, because that means
you can't install a paloma or concierto (if you want
to), because they need firmware 7.4.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

What you also could try is to remove your cyberstormppc
and try to update the flash then (if you have a replacement
accelerator card). Just read in a piv-faq that piv.resource
1.6 had problems with cyberstorm scsi module and updating
the firmware solved it. So updating from 1.6 is definately
possible.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

The faq does not talk about Cyberstorm PPC, but Cyberstorm
+ scsi module (computer hangs etc). But it's definately
worth a try if you ever get a 3640 (they are very cheap on
ebay).

Regards,
Lloyd