Flashing previously flashed bios

[GPo]

Can anyone tell me how to update a previously flashed bios with a newer bios. 2 years ago I flashed my BH6 with the KG bios and all worked fine. Now I want to update to the newest SS bios.I tried to simply swap the bin files in my bios folder, but it still flashes KG. I made a system disk and copied the new bios files to it. Booted to the floppy. I then accessed the awdflash utility and it asked me for a file to be programed. I tried to program the updated .bin file 2 ways. First from the floppy a:\BH6_ss.bin and then from my bios folder and got "insufficient memory " error both times. This is a generic error messasge 'cus I've got lots of ram.

Any help please
GPo
Thanks
GPo rookie

[Roy]

I've had that happen and don't recall exactly what I was doing wrong. Abit has a pretty good set of instructions at their site and following them explicitly usually works.

You can, at the DOS Prompt, type awdflash /? to get a list of the switches. Maybe you overlooked one that should be used.

[Marty]

Make sure your system disk has no autoexec.bat and config.sys files. These may be loadind too much into the first 640k of memory.

[GPo]

Problem solved.
GPo

[This message has been edited by GPo (edited 12-21-2000).]

[socalgal]

GPo! Please tell us: How did you solve the problem? Was it one of these kind posters' suggestion?

Your fix might help someone else having the same problem http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[GPo]

The problem was that some instructions said to work from a boot disk with the awdflash & bios files, I had problems with this. Another post by Bleeding edge explained how to update your bios from a bios directory.
So thanks to bleeding edge for solving my problem.
Booted into my soft menue set up. Disabled level 1 & 2 cache, & bios shadowing.
I bypassed windows set up files and started up in Dos. From within my bios directory I executed the awdflash program from which contained the bios .bin file and the awdflash program. C:\bios\awdflash and then the bios update & the swithches. All OK now.