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October 22nd, 2000, 08:39 PM
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October 23rd, 2000, 01:41 AM
#2
I've had a few flashes go wrong, but never trashed a board as a result.
1. You can hot-swap the bios from a similar board and re-flash. NO it does not have to be an identical board - I've swapped Tyan to Tiger, Asus to Tyan, FIC to Ausus - all were SS7 and Award to Award though. Others can say what they want about this, I've done it.
2. Always at least try an ISA video card to get it to POST - I've seen this work also.
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October 23rd, 2000, 01:55 AM
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Agreed Shawn, but I'll add a third option:
3. If none of the above would work, RMA the board and pretend nothing bad happened.
It worked for me once and they replaced it.
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October 23rd, 2000, 06:43 AM
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also try contacting the manufacturer of the board - sometime, like ASUS, will send you a new bios chip for the board for a small fee. Just look around the website or try emailing them.
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October 23rd, 2000, 07:28 AM
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I agree with Shawn. Just make sure your BIOS chip is loose before you try to hot swap it. Trying to pry a BIOS out while the computer is running can end up being bad things. Usually a motherboard manufacturer charges 15 - 20 dollars for a new BIOS chip so I would try the hot-swap first.
weck
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October 25th, 2000, 08:05 AM
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ASUS charges $25 for a new bios chip - not too bad if you don't have another board lying around that would work. I had a bad flash with an socket a board (dont ask) and they ordered a new chip from them. I realize now the advantage some boards with at least one ISA slot have over those that have none...
BTW heres the link to the address where you can order a new bios chip for ASUS boards...
http://www.asus.com/Products/Techref...flash-008.html
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