Re: BIOS

From: Emmet (john_at_bogus_ofallonil.com)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:39:43 -0800

Thanks for the help but I think the only hope of saving
all my work is another bios chip.
I have had sugesstions to recover from a saved bios, load
cd (didn't get one), press alt + F2, etc. but...
the machine does nothing and I have always thought that
without bios you have nothing else - no drives, no mouse,
no keyboard, etc.

>-----Original Message-----
>My ASUS manual says to press Alt + F2 to start the BIOS
flash (that's the BIOS updating itself rather than
EZFlash program). To recover from a bad flash my manual
says to insert the support CD which supposedly can repair
the BIOS (so it must still be able to boot). If you
didn't save a BIOS it will install whatever is on the CD
(which may be older than what came with the computer).
>
>All I can say is RTFM.
>
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>"Emmett" <john@bogus_ofallonil.com> wrote in message
news:07e301c4c9c0$6a350560$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> The award bios is a plug in chip - can you replace it
>> with a like kind chip?
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Emmett wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did a new install of XP Pro on a some what older
>>>> machine (AMD 900 on Asus A7V motherboard). Had it
>>>> runninng but having some problems with errors
pointing
>> to
>>>> bios. I downloaded Asus autoupdate progrman and ran
it.
>>>> I showed and updated for correct bios and I
>>>> selected "flash". There were 3 steps and step 3 got
a
>> and
>>>> error message. Tried a couple of more times, but
same
>>>> thing. I am guessing one of the first steps cleared
>>>> eprom and not machine won't do anthing after
shutting
>> it
>>>> down (no beeps, no nothing). Tried downloading
update
>> on
>>>> to floppy from another machine and tried to boot, but
>>>> nothing. Am I screwed?
>>>
>>>If you followed the instructions for flashing the BIOS
>> you should be able to
>>>recover from a bad flash. In other words, you should
>> have backed up the
>>>current BIOS before flashing with a new BIOS so that
you
>> can restore the
>>>original BIOS if the flash prevents you from booting
the
>> system. If you
>>>didn't backup the current BIOS before flashing, you
>> destroyed your
>>>motherboard. If you did backup the original BIOS and
are
>> unable to restore
>>>it, then you have a destroyed motherboard. In either
>> case, it's cheaper to
>>>buy a new motherboard than to get it fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>.
>

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