Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?

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March 23rd, 2001, 12:22 AM
Machine

Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?

Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?

I know I do.. Brand new 2K machine... Dancing around... Please work please work... "God don't let anyone hit the telephone pole outside....." Dances around nervously abit more.

I expecially love it when someone posts the wrong bios update on their website. https://forums.windrivers.com/ That's always tons of fun.

BTW if you don't believe in god... you can pray to whoever you feel like so your bios does'nt get B0rked.

https://forums.windrivers.com/
Jeremy

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March 23rd, 2001, 02:16 AM
Larommi

I am agnostic so I don't pray, but I do hold my breath and grit my teeth https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 23rd, 2001, 03:22 AM
Sowulo

Flash them all the time before I waste a bunch of time trying to fix a problem that won't....never give it a second thought. Gee, how many have I flashed in the past 15 years? No idea but the only problems I've ever had was a couple of times when a CMOS virus tried real hard to refuse me access. Flashing the BIOS doesn't have to be any scarier than swapping a RAM chip--exactly...no worries.

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March 23rd, 2001, 05:35 AM
Who Me

No praying here, a lot of finger crossing and head turning away so if you cant see the screen it wont have any errors.

luckily in my job I dont have to flash many.

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March 23rd, 2001, 05:39 AM
MacGyver

I don't give it a second thought. But on the other hand, if you live in California, your feelings might be different. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 23rd, 2001, 05:49 AM
Ruslan

Quote:

Originally posted by sowulo:
Flash them all the time before I waste a bunch of time trying to fix a problem that won't....never give it a second thought. Gee, how many have I flashed in the past 15 years? No idea but the only problems I've ever had was a couple of times when a CMOS virus tried real hard to refuse me access. Flashing the BIOS doesn't have to be any scarier than swapping a RAM chip--exactly...no worries.



I don't worry - at all...Simply because I ALWAYS flashing SPARE flash IC first! https://forums.windrivers.com/ Spare flash IC - simple trick,what everyone can afford (new clear flash IC 1-2Mbit chip costs only 5-7 bucks, or even "free",if You pulled it out from faulty MoBo). Not so big money for saving Your ***! https://forums.windrivers.com/
I have posted my few tips here - worth to read,though:
http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...ML/000976.html

I do not give up posting my BIOS-relayted tips,though - I'll post some another soon... Visit BIOS/MoBo section bit more often,please. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 23rd, 2001, 06:17 AM
AlienDyne

I just hope that the power supply will remain steady during the flashing!

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March 23rd, 2001, 06:34 AM
3fingersalute

Quote:

Originally posted by Machine:
Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?


I don't pray.....just curse like h*ll if it don't work!!!

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March 23rd, 2001, 07:43 AM
CobraTekMax

Quote:

Originally posted by 3fingersalute:
I don't pray.....just curse like h*ll if it don't work!!!



That sounds about right to me.

Only lost one MB in a few dozes flashes over the year, and that was a last ditch effort to fix a PCChips mobo that I knew was shot anyway. So I've had pretty good luck, I guess.

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March 23rd, 2001, 07:58 AM
Blackhawk

Reminds me of one of my favorite New Order songs:

"Every time I flash my bios,
I get down on my knees and pray.
I'm waiting for that final message:
Remove all disks, flash OK."

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March 23rd, 2001, 10:38 AM
APCSI

I only sell/use Aopen motherboards. Easiest flash BIOS around. Never ever burned one. Superior product.
March 23rd, 2001, 10:42 AM
grech

Hmm..

s/AOpen/Asus/g and you've got my take.
March 23rd, 2001, 11:34 AM
Ebra

Yup sure do i have the worst luck when it comes to flashing a bios the last couple times ive had to do the powers gone out https://forums.windrivers.com/
March 23rd, 2001, 11:58 AM
Snommis69

Quote:

Originally posted by APCSI:
I only sell/use Aopen motherboards. Easiest flash BIOS around. Never ever burned one. Superior product.

I agree completely! The DIE-HARD BIOS from Aopen is tops. The Dr. Voice is a little corny, but can be helpful, too.

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March 23rd, 2001, 02:40 PM
jza734

I hate aopen products, but they're better than FIC.

I had a bunch of problems with the old PA-2013's, and the VA-503's. I think i killed three of them, and i followed their damn instructions to the frickin letter. Oh, and i killed some Octek socket 7 mobo's cause my old service manager gave me the wrong bios, what an ***. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 23rd, 2001, 04:10 PM
lgrimm

hell yes....thought everyone did.....I don't do many tho....thank goodness.... https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 23rd, 2001, 06:02 PM
hugheysoup

Hey it is no sweat....I have been sraced inot believeing that flashing the bois is one of the things you do last. Now I usually flash first and that solves mojority of the problems

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March 23rd, 2001, 07:13 PM
rebelj

Count me in - Flash-a-holic all the way! https://forums.windrivers.com/

(Maybe we need to form a support group ??? https://forums.windrivers.com/ )

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March 24th, 2001, 03:24 AM
Green Iguana

I have flashed BIOS's countless times without incident. With the rolling power outages we are having in CA, it is now a crap shoot. I have recently installed a couple of huge UPS's for the service benches.

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March 26th, 2001, 12:13 AM
clascomp

Quote:

Originally posted by Green Iguana:
I have flashed BIOS's countless times without incident. With the rolling power outages we are having in CA, it is now a crap shoot. I have recently installed a couple of huge UPS's for the service benches.

I have also flashed many without problems. We've put UPS's on our benches for almost the same reason, except we get those stupid 2 second outages about three times a week. Now we just keep working.
March 26th, 2001, 10:40 AM
Jallentino

I have never had a problem. Lucky I guess. I just flashed one this weekend, went great, even though it was a gateway !
March 26th, 2001, 11:41 AM
n8dawg

i used to not realy like flashing the bois but here at work i have a fool for a boss and he wants all our bois falshed to the must resent bois. i only lost one so far but i still think it is stupid to flash if its not needed
March 26th, 2001, 01:43 PM
SNAFU

Quote:

Originally posted by n8dawg:
i only lost one so far but i still think it is stupid to flash if its not needed

Yip. Ditto. But when i do flash...I cuss and threaten the box like I was held up at a stop light, cursing it to turn green. :cool:
haven't lost one yet, though I don't do it often.
March 26th, 2001, 01:50 PM
PLaSMaN

I've been flashing BIOS for quite a while and the only one i lost was my personnal 'puter... pretty sad thing...

But i don't care less about flashing, i'm a tech and it's my job to flash the BIOS regularily..., alright i have some 30 spare computers... so i don't need worry about replacement...

:cool:
March 26th, 2001, 02:02 PM
TheoneDKS

I think I have gotten over it. The more flashes I do the easyer it gets.
March 28th, 2001, 01:23 AM
dead

I've never prayed, but kinda relieved when you get the "Flashing Successful" message.
March 28th, 2001, 12:19 PM
taz7194

Flashed hundreds of them and never worried until one time I was flashing off a floppy disk and right in the middle I got "Error reading drive a:" operation aborted. So much for that motherboard. Now I never run it off the floppy disk and I always prey it comes back up. Especially if its a pcchips board.
March 28th, 2001, 03:07 PM
Kyr0n

Quote:

Originally posted by 3fingersalute:
I don't pray.....just curse like h*ll if it don't work!!!

heheh, i can relate
October 2nd, 2003, 09:29 AM
freddy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackhawk

Reminds me of one of my favorite New Order songs:

"Every time I flash my bios,
I get down on my knees and pray.
I'm waiting for that final message:
Remove all disks, flash OK."

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like that one
October 2nd, 2003, 09:47 AM
TripleRLtd

Hey Su:
"Gee, how many have I flashed in the past 15 years?"
15 years of flashing bios's?
Are you sure about that?
Personally been doing it about eight years?
(Ruslan: little help on the actual numberof years/ and it's good to see you again since it seems like it's been awhile, and I will check your link-thanks)
Here in Florida on an island in the Gulf the power is very unreliable to say the least. So=UPS and forget the worry.
Never have had one take a crap thank God.
:drink:

Oh, just noticed that this is an old thread.
Geez, who brought it back?
And I'm here talking to Ruslan like he's listening :rolleyes:
Must be those Aardvarks. ;)
October 2nd, 2003, 09:50 AM
Ya_know

Check the dates Trip... :rolleyes:

Freddy's at it again. :sad:
October 2nd, 2003, 09:52 AM
TripleRLtd

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ya_know

Check the dates Trip... :rolleyes:

Freddy's at it again. :sad:

:thumbs:
Noted and already edited.
Thanks, though Yak. ;)
October 2nd, 2003, 10:01 AM
Ya_know

Quote:

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

:thumbs:
Noted and already edited.
Thanks, though Yak. ;)

Ok, a Yak I ain_t. You can call me Ya_k if you like...

Not Me:
https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2003/10/1.jpg
October 2nd, 2003, 10:10 AM
TripleRLtd

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ya_know

Ok, a Yak I ain_t. You can call me Ya_k if you like...

Not Me:
http://www.redfish.com/Yak/images/welcome1.jpg

:grin:
That's not you?
About that Yak:
I'll just blame it on my keyboard,
I think my underscore key is broke :devil:
October 3rd, 2003, 12:11 AM
cookin chef

I've had very few problems with flashing bioses on major brand boards.
I use the only known proven technique. Using a clean boot disk with nothing else but the bios file and the flashing utility program. With older PII, PIII, pentium 1 boards and assorted AMD boards, I generally disable anything in the bios related to caching or shadowing bios. I even successfully flashed rom's in CDRW's. I have never updated a bios through the web update feature.

The only time I might worry is if there is major storm in progress. That can be risky.

I love some motherboards like Gigabyte with their dual backup bios feature to reduce the chance of a flash going bad.
October 3rd, 2003, 06:34 AM
CeeBee

Computers should always be connected through battery backup units. They are dirt cheap these days and eliminate any power-related worries. I have flashed quite a lot of mobos, but never had a problem.
October 3rd, 2003, 08:42 PM
NetScum

Quote:

Originally Posted by Machine

Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?

I know I do.. Brand new 2K machine... Dancing around... Please work please work... "God don't let anyone hit the telephone pole outside....." Dances around nervously abit more.

Though I doubt I have flashed as many BIOS's as most here I have never had a problem with a BIOS flashing... knock on wood now because the fact that I said that means the next one I do will go wrong, FUBAR'n whatever it is I am working on!
October 4th, 2003, 06:12 AM
darkhorse

A successful flash is an unsuccessful sacrificial offering of a motherboard.

Flashing a Pcchips board (especially the M571 variants) is a form of euthanasia...
October 4th, 2003, 03:46 PM
jaimicook

Quote:

Originally Posted by jza734

I hate aopen products, but they're better than FIC.

I had a bunch of problems with the old PA-2013's, and the VA-503's. I think i killed three of them, and i followed their damn instructions to the frickin letter. Oh, and i killed some Octek socket 7 mobo's cause my old service manager gave me the wrong bios, what an ***. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...lies/cwm32.gif

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Always keep a hammer/sledge above your bench where all customers can see it!

Uninterupable power supploes are fairly inexpensive, now days. I have one on my bench which I use when setting up a new pc. it's saved my bacon on a couple of occasions.
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