Compal GL31 BIOS notes
Intel’s Download Center says that the latest BIOS is 025A. Well according to Compal.com, the latest is actually 116A – but wait a minute, how come the numbers changed? WTF is going on?
http://www.bizcom-us.com/support/TechSupportDriversDownloadPage.htm#GL30
Thank you.
Apparently 025A is just before 114A. Grr. And I don’t have the resources to boot into a DOS environment and flash my BIOS. Oh well, it’s not like I needed to anyway.
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HGL30/HGL31 BIOS Change Notification 03/15/2007
*SYS BIOS : GL30114A.ROM
*GL30114A.ROM Checksum: 1005h
*GL30114A.WPH Checksum: 6948h
Change notification:
1. Default builds with EC 22A
2. Change version number from 027A
Issue Fixed:
Function Modified:
Other Notices
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HGL30/HGL31 BIOS Change Notification 03/05/2007
*SYS BIOS : GL30027A.ROM
*GL30027A.ROM Checksum: B603h
*GL30027A.WPH Checksum: 0F46h
Change notification:
1. Default builds with EC 22A
2. Change Intel VGA BIOS from 1413 to 1436 for 3D Mark issue.
Issue Fixed:
1. Fix system hang-up with some 1394 CardBus Card + 1394HDD.
2. Add 1394 HDD workaround with VIA 1394 + Prolific 1394 Client.
Function Modified:
Other Notices
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HGL30/HGL31 BIOS Change Notification 02/13/2007
*SYS BIOS : GL30026A.ROM
*GL30026A.ROM Checksum: D485h
*GL30026A.WPH Checksum: 2D0Bh
Change notification:
1. Default builds with EC 22A
Issue Fixed:
1. Change Option ROM sequence in ROM.SCR to
avoid some HGL31 sku S3 failure in WinXP.
Function Modified:
1. Add Merom-L (014h) and Merom -L2 (051h) MicroCode.
Other Notices
EDIT: I searched for Compal HGL31 BIOS 30 minutes after posting this, and Google showed this already! Whoa!
EDIT2: Nope, the new BIOS does not give any OCing abilities 
like hell it would. So I updated the flash to 116A, which supports the low-voltage Merom CPUs, not that I have one anyway. So what was the point? Nothing really… kinda like how I updated my Liteon SSM-8515S drive to the latest GS09 firmware, I also updated the BIOS. No huge changes noted.
