[RESOLVED] Award Bios

[Monjen]

Need assistance on AWARD BIOS 4.51...failure code is Checksum error.Battery has been replaced...been told to either upgrade or replace bios....how do I do this and with whom? Been told to flash the ROM...what is this and how is it done? any help is appreciated....have tried windrivers.com, but not sure how to proceed.

[Danrak]

Salutations,
I've flashed only a few bios's, but what they had me do is get a program and the file to flash the bios with (they are usualy found on the motherboards web site). Once you have both the program and the flash file boot with a clean disk and load the program. It'll ask you some questions and just answer them then restart and it should work. Atleast the ones that I did worked ok. I have heard of a few people killing their boards by flashing the bios.

Danrak

[SoccerFiend76]

How confortable are you with flashing your bios? I would recommend getting someone who is comfortable with bios flashing.

If there is a problem you can reset the bios with the use of a jumber on most boards (try this first b4 flashing your bios)

I have yet to have a dead board from this (I have even picked up a couple of supposedly "dead" boards due to imprperly done flashes)

Again though, before you flash your bios i recomend just resetting it with the onboard jumbers. The only time I have *needed* to flash a bios was to get an older tx based main board to recognise hard drivers greater than 8.4 gigs.

good luck,

GBJ

[kgmz]

You need a new bios chip. You cannot flash a bios that is not already running, the computer needs to be booted up and running to be able to flash it.