I have flashed BIOS many times. This is the first time something went wrong. My motherboard is Aopen DX34R-U. Everything was good as supposed to be. But after I saw the message, "Flash is complete, please turn off or push reset button then press DEL to enter BIOS menu", I pushed reset and only saw a black screen and heard "one long and two short beeps"-- Award BIOS' only beep code indicating no video. It is the same beeps I have heard the following three days. The BIOS chip is soldered, it is very hard to replace it. Does anyone know the precedure to flash corrupted BIOS in "blind" since I have no video? Thanks. Ar Q
Did you try clearing the CMOS battery jumper? Some MBs have a way to recover from corrupt flash. My ASUS will look for a file on CD-ROM. The AOpen site"s FAQ says: Q72: What to do if the BIOS was screwed up after the flashing process? In most cases the BIOS has to be re-programmed with a EPROM writer; you could ask your reseller for help, or contact our service center near you. But before that, you could try the following first: Bootblock takes 8K space in the BIOS, usually it will be left intact during the flashing process. Once the flashing failed but fortunately the bootblock has not been corrupted, systems with PCI or ISA display cards will still show bootblock when booting, while those with AGP cards won't. And the floppy LED will blink at this moment. Assuming that you have saved the downloaded BIOS flash execution file (take ax6b210.exe for example) to a bootable disk, insert it into the floppy drive and type A:\>ax6b210 /Py /Ry then enter. For AGP users, sorry this has to be done blindly. After a while (say, one minute or so) reboot the system to see if the system could be restored. If not, perhaps the BIOS has been physically damaged or the bootblock has also been corrupted, sorry please ask for RMA service.
I had it once long time ago, i used a bootfloppy with files with specific naming. The error message was with the word "bootblock" if i remember correctly. * see the biosman-link below Afterthat you turn on your system and press a specific key, i thougt is was <F2> witch automaticly boots from floppy. here are some links with more info i hope 4 u http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html http://www.wimsbios.com/ http://www.bootdisk.com/ Goodluck! Ciao
