BIOS Flash Problem

Ooh, bugger!!

The only way I have seen around this is to find a machine with the same bios chip on another board.

Loosen the good bios chip in its socket so that once you have booted the good machine, you can carefully remove the good BIOS chip and replace it with the knackered one, then flash the BIOS again.

Good luck (I sincerely mean it!)

What a drag, I have an old p166 which burnt its' fuse for the keyboard port. My fix was to pick up another board from a local pc recycler and plug everything back onto that one. Cost was $5. Runs Great. If you can get computer-user in your area I'ld check out some of the locals advertising in there. I went to midwest electronics in the st paul/ minneapolis area.
Good Luck

Are there any beeps? If so you may be able to recover

If you made a back up to the old bios when given the option you can rename the files and use the disk to flash the bios

Check the following faq for info
http://www.ping.be/bios

check out the mfg's web site or Award web site. They should have emergency boot and BIOS recovery software that you can download to floppy disks[I assume you have two computers as you've posted a message here].

That's about the only way to recover without an identical motherboard in another system in which to copy the BIOS from.

Try resetting the CMOS memory.

Many times when you flash the BIOS, you need to reset the CMOS to get the PC to boot.

There is a way to recover the flash memory.

What you need is a friend who is heavily into (or working in) electronics.
What they can do, is identify the Flash ROM, and manually load the BIOS code using a Memory IC programming station.

Chas

I think I found the answer.

Go to www.amptron.com
click on support
click on Tech Information

Download the BIOS recovery guide.

Follow the steps for Award BIOS.

Best of Luck.

Chas

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