hjelp! feil under bios flashing!!!

[enemigo]

Problemet begynte med at jeg skulle legge inn redhat8. Men maskina bare peip 3 ganger og stoppa. Har hatt dette problemet en sjelden gang ved vanlig boot også.

 

Fant ut at en ny bios kanskje ville hjelpe. Lasta ned 1016 og kjørte aflash. Og hva tror dere skjedde midt i reprogrammeringa av bios? Jo maskina peip 3 ganger raskt, og stoppa! Nå er det ikke tegn til liv i det hele tatt!!

 

Er vel ikke så mye å få gjort her?

 

fa1

Knut

[panikk!]

Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi .....

 

uffa meg ja, uffa meg...

 

PS: Alt håp er ikke ute, ta ut Bios chippen og sett inn en ny tilsvarende en, du kan jo også prøve å få tak i en fra en databutikk i nærheten, kanskje di har et hovedkort (samme som ditt sef) som er ødelagt og som har den bios chippen du trenger...

 

lykke til.

[eatshorts]

nå skreiv du ikke hvilken bios du har, men dette kan hjelpe på awardbioser. dersom du har ami bios er metodene enda "enklere"

 

quote:

 

I'm posting this because I think everyone needs to be a bit more aware

that a so called "bad flash" does no necessarily mean a trashed BIOS

chip or a hosed motherboard. I'm sure the more experienced computer

builders are aware of this....so this post is aimed at the less

computer savvy or the people that just plain didn't know.

YES, flashing your BIOS is risky....it can go bad for any number of

reasons.

NO, you shouldn't flash unless the new version includes something that

is truly needed.

But if you just have to have the newest software,drivers,BIOS as soon

as its released, and I'm included, then you need to know that there is

a good chance that an "OHH SHIT" situation can turn into a "WHEWWW"

AWARD BIOS' are "bootblock" BIOS'...basically what this means is that

there is a portion of the BIOS that is reserved and unwritten to (most

of the time) that allows rudamentary hardware accessability(eg.floppy,

ISA, Keyboard) in the event that the BIOS becomes corrupted in some

way as to prevent the system from POSTing normally.

First off, if you think the flash went bad, try clearing the CMOS. I

know this sounds generic, but it is sometimes all that is needed as

the flash may have wreaked havoc upon the settings as to not allow the

system to POST...and not actually corrupted the BIOS itself.

Sometimes, if your lucky, holdind down the INSERT key while powering

up the system will get it to POST normally as it resets certain

settings to default. I actually saw someone mention this in a

thread...good job...not alot of people are aware of this ability to

"force" the system to POST. If these fail, your looking at a true "bad

flash" scenario.

As I said before, the "bootblock" allows access to to floppy, ISA, and

keyboard input. If your lucky enough to have a board with an ISA slot

(doubtful) and an old ISA vid card laying around, the recovery process

is easy, as you will be able to see what your doing on the screen. I

don't think any of SOYO's current boards have an ISA slot so it is

more of a challenge as everything has to be automated and done blind.

Let me say this. If you get ANY beep codes at startup and the floppy

light comes on and appears to initialize, your chances of recovering

are VERY high, regardless of whether or not the system appears to do

anything else. If you don't have a floppy...well...send the BIOS chip

off to get reprogrammed, or buy a new one...because there is nothing

you can do.

OBVIOUSLY YOU NEED ACCESS TO ANOTHER COMPUTER FOR THESE NEXT STEPS

BECAUSE YOURS IS OUT TO LUNCH RIGHT NOW

1.) You need to make a bootable floppy. The best way to do this is to

go to www.bootdisk.com and download DrDOS...but you want the one "for

flashing" as it has no drivers or any unesessary files with it. It's

just "pure" DOS. Just click on the downloaded file and it will prompt

you to place a floppy in the drive and will create the boot floppy for

you.

2.) Place "awdflash.exe" and whatever BIOS your flashing (ex.

123abc.bin) on the bootable floppy you created.

3.) Now you need to create an autoexec.bat file. This is what

automates the entire process since it's being done "blind". To do

this, all you need is a text editor, notepad being the easiest. Just

open notepad and type "awdflash 123abc.bin /py /sn /Sb /cd /cp /cc /R"

without the quotes. Make sure you fill in the "123abc.bin" with the

correct filename...this is just an example. It should look like this:

awdflash 123abc.bin /py /sn /Sb /cd /cp /cc /R

Make sure there is a space between awdflash and you BIOS file and

after your BIOS file and between all switches. Now save what you

created here in notepad on your floppy as autoexec.bat

Basically what this does is it automatically loads awdflash, inserts

the BIOS file, and....

/py - program yes

/sn - save no

/Sb - skips rewriting the bootblock

/cd /cp /cc - resets all configuration data and clears CMOS

/R - restarts the system when complete

4.) Once you have this floppy complete it's time to put it in the

drive, power the system up, and cross your fingers. Just keep your

eyes on the floppy and HDD light and keep an ear out. It only takes a

minutes or so to complete so you have to be ready to remove the floppy

when the system restarts (you should be able to tell when all

lights and activity stop, pause for a few moments and then restarts).

At this point, if all went well, your system should POST. You can now

go into your setup, make your needed changes, and bingo...your back in

business.

WELL...thats pretty much it. I hope this helps some people. This isn't

100% quaranteed to work. Some "bad flashes" just can't be recovered

from, but it has worked for me in the past.

Good Luck,

Cappy

JUST A FEW NOTES:

NO...I don't work for SOYO, but I figured this info might save some

people some headaches....and money. I think this info might be on

their site, with less detail and minus some of "awdflash's" switches

that really should be included.

Also, even if you don't have to use this proceedure, If your going to

flash your BIOS, it's good to make this floppy anyway...just in case.

And finally, this is only for AWARD BIOS'. AMI BIOS' use a different

recovery proceedure.....It's WAY easier.

[pcfreak]

Nå har ikke jeg lest hele tråden så tilgi meg om jeg har skrevet noe som noen har forklart før.

 

Det finnes noe som jeg så en test på hardware.no en gang, Bios Saviour som du kan kjøpe, så hvis du kjenner noen som har likt hovedkort så kan du låne biosen hans/hennes eller du kan ta med din egen, og så kan du legge inn biosen på den chippen som følger med ekstra på bios saviouren og så vri om bryteren så den bruker den andre biosen (etter at du har skrudd av maskinen) og så kan du ta ut hans/hennes bios brikke og sette i din, så starter du maskinen, med den nyflasha biosshipen som kom med Bios Saviour og så kan du når du har startet maskinen vri om bryteren og flashe din bios, så blir det bra :-) , men om du kjenner noen med likt hovedkort, eller om du får tak i Bios Saviour er noe annet. Husker det kun var en butikk i Sverige i Skandinavia som hadde den. Har du mere spm. om dette kan jeg forklare det litt bedre for deg :-)

[enemigo]

Ikke noe liv i diskettstasjonen, men det er liv i cdrom'en.

 

Kan det fungere å brenne autoexec.bat, command.com og biosfila (1016.bin) på cd?

 

Her er biosen jeg har brukt.

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Soc...o_KT333/A7V333/

 

Vet ikke om det er award. Har den gamle awardbios'en på diskett. FIkk forresten feilmelding når jeg lagra gamle bios oppsett på disketten.

 

Knut

[enemigo]

Hjalp ikke å brenne en cdrom med bootfilene, bios og autoexec.bat.

 

Brukte AV33312.AWD.

 

Føkk!

 

K

[enemigo]

Vel, da ser det ut til at jeg gir opp! Har fått tilbud om å levere inn kortet for å reprogrammere chip'en, men jeg må ha maskin i helga, ellers blir ikke oppdragsgiveren min særlig fornøyd!!!

 

Fikk tilbud om et MSI K7N2G-L kort til litt under 1.000kr. Regner med jeg slår til på det. Greit å få med S-ATA og dual DDR når jeg skal ha noe nytt.

 

Knut

[eatshorts]

får du ikke liv i diskettstasjonen er nok det å sende den inn best ja.

[enemigo]

Da er jeg oppe igjen, med MSI hovedkort. Viser 5-6 grader mer på cpu temp, men ellers så er alt fint.

 

Da regner jeg med jeg greier å installere RH8

 

k

[venomzorg]

går det ikke og kjøpe ny bios brikke til hket? veit ikkenoe om det men har hørt det.

[enemigo]

Kommer til å sende kortet til reparasjon.

 

Kjøpte nytt hk fordi jeg må ha maskin i helga, har påtatt meg noe weboppdrag som jeg har lovet ferdig over helga!

 

K