Re: BIOS

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:51:08 +1100

I don't think there is anything wrong wth your BIOS. Modern computers have 2 BIOSs. One that is a mnimal (my previous computer recovery bios only communicated by beeping at you - no screen unlike asus) and the normal one. You only flash the normal one. And if the normal one corrupts then the Recovery one takes over. ASUS can use floppies and CDs to boot from. 

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"Emmet" <john@bogus_ofallonil.com> wrote in message news:66bc01c4c9d1$ab98eb50$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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