Hi, You could try to do a bios chip hot swap. I have done it, but not on this board though. What you need to do: 1) You need a tool to remove the socketed bios chip. I don't know the name of the tool, but you can probably find it in any electronics store. Do not try to remove the chip without this tool as you will probably break it. 2) Remove the BIOS chip from another (working) S2882 board and put it into the board with the faulty chip. 3) Boot the machine to dos (or what ever you plan to flash the bios from) 4) Remove the bios chip from the machine while it is still running and replace it with the faulty chip. 5) Flash the bios with the correct bios image. 6) Reboot. Now you will have a working machine again. Plaese note that I will not be held responisble for anything that can go wrong when you do it. I have experience of doing it and I know it works, at least for some boards, but YMMV. Good luck, /peter
Hello all,
I excuse myself if the question I am about to ask is not directly related to SuSE AMD64. Many of you will laugh after hearing this but, here it goes... we flashed the BIOS of one of our opteron servers (Tyan S2882 mobo) but put the wrong BIOS image (S2885 instead of S2882) so the system is unable to boot. Is there a way to correct this problem without having to send the computer back to the provider in order to change the chip?
Thanks in advance,
- Jose Luis
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