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"Unknow Flash Type" message comes up... Help~

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by juinnari

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the message comes up whenever I attempt to flash the BIOS.

Before this happens, I failed to flash the BIOS... the process halted and nothing happened, so I had to force it to stop.

after then the system restarted, a message said that main bios was failed and the backup bios was on.

so I looked up the Internet to find out the solution to it; however, nothing worked.

some said that flash memory protection might be a cause. as soon as I saw the thread on the Internet, I tried but didn't work out.

I tried to find any utility that can reset flash memory but only end up getting cmos clear utilities...

I don't know what else I can do about this.

If anyone out there have any clue to spare... help me please...

P.S. I have unknown manufacturer's RS690/SB600 motherboard with Award flash(Winbond)rom on it. Award flash utility version 8.66 was used. flash update files are all clean.

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by juinnari

I was in the hope that BIOS update might help correct those problem.

one of the problem was that my Windows froze... this, I've almost never had with other boards that had Windows XP installed.

I will try the second link.

if this works I will leave a line here to thank you. have a good one.

by thechas

Let me get this straight, you do not know who manufactured your motherboard and you attempted to Flash the BIOS!

The BIOS for a motherboard is NOT generic. You must have the correct BIOS for how the manufacture implemented the hardware for that specific motherboard.

Award, Phoenix, and the other BIOS suppliers only provide the core BIOS code. The motherboard manufacture customizes the code for their specific motherboard.

"IF" you choose the option to back up your existing BIOS before you attempted the Flash, your best option is to restore the original BIOS.

As a general rule, you should not update the BIOS unless the update corrects a specific problem you are having with your system.

Windows problems are seldom corrected by simply flashing the BIOS.

BIOS updates normally correct things like RAM compatibility, hard drive support, and video card compatibility.

Chas

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