[PLUG] Help!!! PC won't boot to flash bios

[Jim Webb]

Cooper,

Thanks for the help.  Since I sent out my urgent appeal to the list,
I've pulled the cmos battery and applied the default bios settings and
then saved the changes.  I then attempted multiple times to stop the pc
from booting up past the memory screen and was able to access an asus
utility called ezflash.  I then was able to to reflash the bios to the
original version.

What an adrenalin rush.

Do you think that I should reflash the bios piecemeal or stepwise from
version 11 to 15 and stop whenever it works and I can get my pc to both
recognize the cpu correctly, which it did after I flashed the bios to
version 15, and then be able to bootup?

TIA,

Jim

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:58, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> If you are certain that the BIOS is not accessing the devices correctly
> because of a problem with the BIOS's logic (i.e. there are no cable
> issues, etc.) then there still is a way out.
> 
> CAUTION: What I am about to show you is an _extremely_ sensitive
> operation and could render a motherboard useless. PROCEED WITH EXTREME
> CAUTION AND MAKE SURE TO WEAR STATIC PROTECTION
> 
> 1) Boot a working machine that is not particularly vital to your
> operations with the BIOS flash disk (having the original BIOS version
> code; there's no sense re-burning to the new version until at the very
> least things are squared away).
> 
> 2) While the machine is running, pull the BIOS chip from the motherboard
> with a pair of chip-puller tongs. Again I cannot stress enough how
> careful you must be doing this; if you bend the motherboard or ground
> out one of the contacts you will destroy it.
> 
> 3) Put the BIOS chip from the new machine in the motherboard, noting
> it's orientation. There will be a small half-circle notch on one of the
> edges that will match a notch drawn on the motherboard. BE VERY CAREFUL
> NOT TO STRESS THE MOTHERBOARD OR BEND THE PINS
> 
> 4) Select "flash" from the still-running flash application you ran from
> the floppy
> 
> 5) After the application has flashed, exit the application and
> completely shut down the machine
> 
> 6) Put the newly-flashed chip in the new computer and boot
> 
> This should boot your computer to the original flash BIOS code. 
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> 
> -Cooper
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:38, Jim Webb wrote:
> > Help!!!!!!!  I just built a box with an ASUS A7V333MB, AthlonXP 2400+
> > CPU, 512 MB pc 2700 RAM, Maxtor 40 GB HDD, AGP GeForce 4 video (Jaton). 
> > After I originally built it several days ago, I noticed that the bios
> > wasn't listing my cpu speed correctly.  Tech support suggested as well
> > as Asus that I flash the bios to the latest and greatest.  I just
> > flashed the bios with aflash and updated the bios from 11 version to 15
> > version.  After I shut off the power I invoked the default settings, hit
> > F10 for my award bios and restarted the pc.  I changed the settings for
> > the bios to the ones that I wanted and saved again.  It wouldn't boot up
> > after that.  Something about system error and insert a system disc and
> > hit enter.  I realized that I was in some trouble here and tried to
> > flash the bios to the original one, but I could not boot up to the
> > floppy even I placed that at the head of the list for bootup devices.
> > 
> > Help somebody!!!
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Jim.  
> > -- 
> > 
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