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Don Burnette
D Burnette in N4

Some people do nothing wrong.
The problem is, they do nothing.
And THAT is wrong.

Don't know much about flashing the bios.  But if the CMOS gets
messed up you can just press the "Delete" key when booting, and
then type in the hardware info.   But you probably knew that.

A few weeks ago, the CIH virus kicked my ass and I had to
switch a motherboard jumper to discharge the CMOS, resetting
it to the default.  I believe that is what a technician would have done.
Check out your motherboard manual, maybe there is such a
hardware switch for your problem.  If you don't have a motherboard
manual, go to the motherboard manufacturer's website and check
out the online manual.   Or, you might check out the bios
providers website.    Good Luck.

Tom

|    I always have to do things the hard way.  And NOW I have really screwed
| things. up.
|   I dloaded the files necessary to flash update my system bios.  Formtted
a
| floppy just like I was supposed to.  Then copied the flasher utility and
the
| upated bios files onto the floppy.  I missed the autoexec.bat file that
runs
| the update automatically so I went back to my desktop to copy that file as
| well.  Unfortunately, I must have double clicked on it by mistake because
| the autoexec.bat started up the flasher utility in windows...I didn't
catch
| on what I had just did until I rebooted  my system to start the bios
update.
| beeeeep beep beep.... beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep   etc til the power
| cord was yanked.
|    I have totally corrupted my system bios so badly that I can't even get
a
| floppy to boot to fix it...ANY ONE know of a company that fixes fried
| bios'????
| dave (the stoooopid one) henrie
|
|

The beepbeepbeep thing sounds like it could be a memory problem.  If
possible swap the memory with a stick that is known good.

Last time I had a BIOS problem I had to disconnect EVERYTHING except the
floppy.  I couldn't boot with a card in the AGP slot but could with a PCI
vid card.

With the PCI card I could see I had a BIOS checksum error.

By booting from the floppy I was able to flash the bios again and all was
well.

I investigated purchasing a new BIOS chip but the price quoted was almost
the replacement price of the MB so I passed.

Do you know someone who owns an IC programmer? A bios chip is just an EEPROM
with a program in it, which in your case has gotten seriously garbled. The
chip can easily be reprogrammed seperately with the image you downloaded to
do the upgrade in the first place. 2 minute job.

Over here many computer stores are offering this service, but, since they
assume the customer is pretty desperate, it's not cheap.

Jan.
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Don't you have a jumper on the mb that will wipe out that bios and
allow you to reflash it? Most do these days.
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I had this happen to me..  I used another computer to set up the
autoexec.bat on the floppy so that the BIOS flasher would automatically
start.  I kept my fingers crossed and sat through some unnerving beeping but
I was able to recover from what I thought would be a disaster.  Good luck!

PJL

   My MB has a 4 l.e.d. error checking BEFORE it goes to the bios and the
memory post.  So with this error,,,it halts the boot process before the
floppy can boot.(this too is probably my fault.  I had recently re-installed
windows from the cd and had changed my bios settings to bypass the floppy &
boot from the cd.  I was getting ready to change it back when the
problem/disaster started.)
  i do see a little cdrom activity...I'm gonna try and create a bootable cd
and see if that gets it back...uhhhh does anyone know how to create a
bootable cdrom???
dave henrie

I know it is an Abit faq but the methodology would be identical for your MSI
board. Let's put it this way... you can't hurt your bios chip anymore and
you won't kill the good bios chip unless your do it physical harm ie: snap
off a pin or something... but you wouldn't do that... you'll be real
careful!!!
Good Luck,
Robin

CDRWin has an option to write a bootable CD-Rom, never tried it though.

Jan.
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"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.