On Sunday 22 April 2001 03:21, Terence McCarthy wrote:
Hello All,
I finally plucked up courage to upgrade my Award BIOS (VIA Apollo VP3 chipset, SOYO board), saved the original settings, flushed the chip, and then the SOYO software hung on me during flash-writing it.
I have cleared the CMOS etc., but to no avail. I would be grateful for any advice on this:
a. Can I get round this, and if so, how?
b. If not, can I get a replacement chip easily (and cheaply)?
Thanks to anyone who can help me on this.
Terence
Some Award flash bioses have the ability to recover from being hosed during the flash process. They have a non-flash section containing a boot block which will look for the bios software on the floppy drive. They will then load the software into themselves. You must have the correct bios software, obtained from the motherboard manufacturer's site. Award bioses are tweaked by the manufacturers and can't be used on other vendors' boards. If your system seems to be trying to read the floppy before it gives up, it is a good indication that your bios has the ability to repair itself. I suggest you start looking into this by doing a search on terms such as Award, flash , bios, repair, etc. This should lead you to sites that contain specific detailed information on how to do this. There aren't a great deal of them, but they are out there. Good luck. Rudder