CMonster
03-29-2001, 01:21 PM
Well, today I did my first hot-swap BIOS reflash and recovery.
I was upgrading a friends box and tried a BIOS that left the box totally unbootable - not even the boot block would work with an ISA video adapter -nothing, dead.
Fortunately, I had one of those same motherboards (slightly different revision) in my closet "spare parts" pile (FIC PA-2013) so I booted my old board with the BIOS flash floppy, ran the program to the point where it asks if you want to save the old BIOS, swaped the BIOS chips, flashed the old BIOS back into my friend's chip, shut down, swaped chips again, and rebooted - all is well with both boards! Whew! - he is going to be stuck with the old BIOS because my nerves are too fried to try again.
Hot swap method - last resort - but if done properly it works.
[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 03-29-2001).]
I was upgrading a friends box and tried a BIOS that left the box totally unbootable - not even the boot block would work with an ISA video adapter -nothing, dead.
Fortunately, I had one of those same motherboards (slightly different revision) in my closet "spare parts" pile (FIC PA-2013) so I booted my old board with the BIOS flash floppy, ran the program to the point where it asks if you want to save the old BIOS, swaped the BIOS chips, flashed the old BIOS back into my friend's chip, shut down, swaped chips again, and rebooted - all is well with both boards! Whew! - he is going to be stuck with the old BIOS because my nerves are too fried to try again.
Hot swap method - last resort - but if done properly it works.
[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 03-29-2001).]