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Pete1
01-26-2003, 03:34 PM
Hi Guys,

Over the past couple days I had this glitch in Windows that bothered me. Tried a number of things to fix to no avail.
Soooo then, I decided to flash BIOS on motherboard back to original versions. Not a good idea!! Monitor goes blank on reboot.....I'm watching, and watching, NOTHING. I got that sick feeling in my stomach about then. So I reboot with reset button and my motherboard says that the CPU is damage. Uhhh..cannot boot, cannot post, can't do anything.

Okay...went to store got new motherbaord and got back up an running today. Found out nothing wrong with processor only motherbaord was screwed up. Thank heavens.

Would there be any life left in the motherbaord with bad BIOS or would I have to use it for a door stop? I have no idea as to how to fix a motherboard BIOS.
Any thoughts /ideas appreicated.

Pete
BipolarBill
01-26-2003, 04:23 PM
http://www.badflash.com
Beeblequix
01-27-2003, 04:01 PM
Neat link there, Bill.

I'm real curious now if you took a BIOS from say an A7V333 and put it in a A7V266-E if you could trick the mobo to believe it's a kt333 based board instead of a kt266a board. I realize this wouldn't work under most circumstances, except the architecture behind these boards is quite similar.

Pete1, what exactly happened during your flash? Did you brownout? Did your flash tell you "flash successful"?

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BipolarBill
01-27-2003, 04:05 PM
Originally posted by Beeblequix
I'm real curious now if you took a BIOS from say an A7V333 and put it in a A7V266-E You'd be a fool to try, wouldn't you? :eek:
Beeblequix
01-28-2003, 12:05 PM
You'd be a fool to try, wouldn't you?

I'm a fool anyway...much evidence to support my claim. :rolleyes:

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suzuki1
01-28-2003, 10:43 PM
If you can get a bios chip from another board and its able to boot to a floppy you can pull the chip out and put in your original chip back in while it is running and reflash the the bios!
suzuki1
01-28-2003, 10:54 PM
Pete!

Read this pdf it tell what went wrong with a bad flash and it describes 4 way to recover your bios including hot swaping the bios to recover!!

Good luck.

http://www.amptron.com/documents/Recover.pdf

It also say's that you can boot your pc to a floppy even though you get nothing on you screen and hot swapping will work on any board as long as it is the same type of chip.