| everybodie |
I flashed my BIOS and now the machine is dead. What can I do?
If your BIOS appeared to flash properly, then you had one good reboot, but all subsequent reboots have left you with a blank screen, you most likely failed to use your one chance to reset the CPU speed from the default 500 MHz back to the proper clock setting. This results in a machine that won't go. You need to clear the CMOS and then immediately enter SoftMenuIII in the BIOS and set the correct CPU speed. One user also found that this problem was due to having too many fans connected to his machine.
Otherwise, you have probably somehow corrupted your BIOS whilst flashing to the later version. If you are lucky, the boot-block BIOS will remain, which means you may be able to reflash your BIOS using a bootable floppy. Your screen may remain dead during this activity, and so you might have to guess when the process is finished (wait 5-10 minutes). Using a PCI graphics card rather than an AGP graphics card can resolve the "dead screen" problem during this process. You must do the following:
Create a bootable DOS floppy using Windows 95 or 98
Remove all memory management files from the floppy disk and AUTOEXEC.BAT
Download a new version of the BIOS file and copy to the floppy disk (don't use the version which killed your BIOS - it's probably corrupted!)
Download a new version of the AWDFLASH.EXE file and copy to the floppy disk
Add the line "AWDFLASH newbios.bin /py /cc /sn /cd" to the end of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file (where newbios.bin is the name of new BIOS file)
Power off your machine, insert the floppy, power up
After five-ten minutes, remove floppy and reboot!
Good luck! To prevent these problems in the future you may wish to consider using a BIOS Savior.
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What can I do if my BIOS becomes corrupt somehow?
You may try the following methods step by step to recover your BOIS if you have a duplicate board:
1. Power on another computer with the exact same mainboard as the dead one.
2. Boot from A: in pure DOS mode without any resident programs.
3. Take off the EEPROM carefully from the good mainboard when it boot up completely under pure MS DOS mode.
4. Put your destroyed BIOS on the exact same mainboard.
5. Run awdflash.exe to reprogram the BIOS as normal process. BTW, you have to pay attention to the direction of the EEPROM chip, when you put the BIOS chip onto BIOS socket. If the direction is reversed, the BIOS chip will burn down. If you are not familiar with these procedures, do not know how to do it, or don't have an exact same board. Please just contact your supplier or our branch office near you for help. [jfdsdjhfuetppo]--Message édité par everybodie--[/jfdsdjhfuetppo] |
