Flashed wrong BIOS upgrade...

[SupremeSpod]

I own an ASUS F7450DVD Laptop, and flashed the wrong BIOS!!! Yes, I know, stupid - I didn't realise it was the wrong one! The laptop won't even go through POST!!! Is there any way I can recover this?

[Axel]

No - doubtful you can - you'll need to either send the laptop in to have factory techs install a new EEPROM, or you'll need to get a new EEPROM chip sent to you and you install it.

When you flashed the wrong file into the EEPROM, you wrecked the ability of the I/O system to address anything. You can't get back in - all the communications channels are wrecked.

Sorry for the bad news -

[SupremeSpod]

Axel, good news...

I smurfed the web and found that there is a little safety device built into the BIOS!!!
(just in case people like me screw it up!!!)

A boot loader/interpreter will load the O/S, and enable it to process the AUTOEXEC.BAT file! I had the utility to flash a correct BIOS on the floppy disk, inserted it, rebooted, the utility powered off the machine, I powered on the box, and YES!!!

IR having wonderful PC up and RUNNING IR!!!!
(For I truly am the SupremeSpod)

A tip for us all to remember!!!

[Darvocet]

I did the same stupid thing once and I thought my brand new mobo was a goner. I then looked and the jumpers for clear c-mos were set so that the bios could not be flashed. It flashed the bios to a memory chip. I took the chip out, set it to the side for a half an hour then put it back in and the computer booted as normal with the old bios in place! Pretty weird huh? But I swear it's true.