----- ASUS M8000-B Series ----- ----------------BIOS------------------- msb0109a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0109 22/Mar/2000 1. Enable thermal-override function. 2. Fix battery will no respond after a long time. 5. Update SM721 VGA BIOS to 2.22.55. msb0108a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0108 20/Oct/2000 1. Fix battery low warning beep will be enabled after resuming from S3 under ACPI. 2. Update SM721 VGA bios to 2.22.21 for M8000B serial. 3. Modify DMI information about L1 cache size to 32KB. 4. Fix system cannot enter S4 bios state, if using Toshiba MK2016GAP HDD and TEAC CD224E CD-ROM simultaneously. 5. Enable BIOS default setting for SpeedStep. msb0107a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0107 19/Jul/2000 1. Fix CPU always runs at high clock speed if SpeedStep is disabled in BIOS setup. 2. Temporarily disable VGA PCI clock during SpeedStep transition to prevent VGA not responding after changing CPU speed. msb0105a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0105 10/May/2000 1. Update SM721 VGA BIOS to 2.21.93. 2. Support wake-up on modem ring for internal modem card and external COM port modem in ACPI system. 3. Support DDR machine on parallel port interface. 4. Fix Windows 98 First edition standby will go to S1 instead of S3. 5. Fix system will sometime hang at POST or BIOS Setup. 6. Fix system will trap if the booting sequence is CD-ROM-> HDD-> Floppy that is installed from Windows 98 bootable CD-ROM. 7. Initial the battery interface to Benchmark protocol before initiate LCD brightness to keep LCD brightness for the next booting. 8. Update CPU microcode Rev. 07 for B0 stepping. msb0104a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0104 14/Apr/2000 1. Removed CPU PSN protection option in BIOS setup. msb0102a.exe ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0102 5/Apr/2000 1. Modify DMI Strings: a.) The external clock is 100MHz. b.) The number of associated memory slots is 2. c.) The system slots is 1 - PC Card Socket. 2. Support Intel SpeedStepTM technology on non-Applet environment. 3. Modify INTEL Celeron CPU type string to "Celeron (TM)". 4. Support CPU PSN enable / disable option in BIOS SETUP. 5. Update SM721 VGA BIOS to 2.21.83. msb0101a.zip ASUS M8000-B Series Notebook BIOS Rev. 0101 15/Mar/2000 1. First Release. ------------- Guides/Manual ------------ m8000b-102.pdf ASUS M8000-B Notebook Manual Rev. 1.02 (e500b) 12/1999