Would anyone happen to know if any of the computer places have a chip burner. I absentmindedly flashed my bios with the wrong file and the guy at IT says the school doesn't have one, and i would rather not have to send my MB out. any help is appreciated

you mean a chip reprogrammer?

Chip burner?


Without saying anything about it, its rather difficult to say if there's somewhere on-campus to reflash it without a lot of pain.

i checked at pc technologies and peterson's, and talked to the guy at pc tech and pretty much decided i'd need a new motherboard

any suggestions for a pentium d 830 board? (Socket T/LGA775) with ddr2 support?

you shouldnt have to get a new mobo all because of a bad flash, maybe i have no idea what im talking about but it sounds silly

have you tryed an emergiency repair mode most bioses make it very hard to render unrecoverbal

i read through all the documentation on my MB as far as what i have and online, the wrong file was flashed, it left the computer with nothing to boot with, so unless i can somehow get the right bios file on there, i need to look at either sending it to ASUS or getting a new one, and i'm in an upgrading sort of mood, i tried everything, trust me

if your bios chip comes off the board, all that you need is someone with a bios socket that is the same layout and wiring(pretty common). You boot their computer with a bios flashing disk. Remove their bios. Insert yours, actually flash the bios, dance like a ninja, shutdown the computer, put the bioses where they belong, and reboot both.

check through your docs again, my asus board has i think ALT+F2 or something like that takes it into a bios flashing utility firmware.

Go here:
http://www.badflash.com/

I bought a new bios chip for like $5 or something for a crappy epox board a couple of years ago, worked fine.

Q. I flashed with the wrong file. Is there any way to recover?

A. If your floppy drive seeks on power up and then stops after a short period of time, you may have a chance to recover. The following information was obtained from Wim's Bios http://www.wimsbios.com/ FAQ's. Corrections on AWARD Bios by Terry McGuire.

Award: The boot-block BIOS will execute an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on a bootable diskette. Copy an Award flasher & the correct BIOS *.bin file on the floppy and execute it automatically by putting AWDFLASH *.bin /sn /py /cc /r in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The * would be the correct bios .bin file and there must be spaces between the slash marks. Put it in the floppy and turn on the computer when the floppy seeks it will load the correct bios and reboot by itself. When it finishes you have to remove the floppy and enter the cmos SETUP and modify the CMOS for your configuration.

AMI: The AMI boot-block BIOS will look for a AMIBOOT.ROM file on a diskette. Copy and rename the correct BIOS file on the floppy and power up the PC. The floppy doesn't need to be bootable. You will see the PC read the floppy, after about 4 minutes you will hear 4 beeps, this means the transfer is done.

Kill Power to the PC. Clear the CMOS or RTC. Reboot the PC and modify the CMOS for your configuration.

anyone have a floppy drive and a disk i can borrow?

okay, axe the drive, i have that now, anyone in tj have a disk (3.5 floppy) i can use/have to give this a try?