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BIOS was badly reprogammed

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by justasas

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While I was repogramming my AWARD Flash BIOS computer hanged up and It is not booting now. However BIOS beeps and It looking floppy disk drive for a floppy disk but screen is blank. When I press Enter button it looks FDD again and again. Is it posible to reprogram BIOS on the same motherboard (load system with good BIOS and after change to bad and reprogram it), or I have to change BIOS chip to new?
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by zamski

If you have another computer with the same motherboard, you can remove the bad BIOS and then replace it with the BIOS from the other computer. Then after the system boots, remove that BIOS and replace it with the bad BIOS. Then reprogram the bad BIOS. There are step by step directions on how to do this at:
http://www.abit-usa.com/english/index.htm
Look for the question: What do I do if my BIOS becomes corrupt somehow?

HOWEVER, your entire BIOS might not be corrupted and that is why it may be trying to boot to floppy. Award BIOSs can will sometimes try to boot from floppy when they are partially corrupt. Try to see if you can boot with a boot floppy first.

by justasas

Thank you for your help, but I fixed it
few hours ago. Your answer was correct
and AWARD looked for System Floppy Disk,
but I had to disconnect HDD, because It
is not booting with HDD.

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