Cpu help

[tysonb]

i reacently bought an i5 ivy bridge for my computer but when i put it in the computer wont boot up, pl
ease help

 

[tysonb]

okay i figured out how to make the bootable usb, its loading now, is there anything i need to know before doing this thing?

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

You'll need to make sure that the USB drive is the first boot device in the BIOS, but after that, you'll just need to boot into DOS and navigate to the "DOS" update directory on the drive.

 

[tysonb]

okay seems simple enough ^^, and thanks for the all help man, i appreciate it. i hope this works!

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

No problem and I do too!

 

[tysonb]

okay well i got the thing to boot but there was a command prompt were i had to type somthing

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

That's the way it should be. You need to navigate the the DOS folder on the disk now.

Unless you just copied the files directly from the DOS folder to the USB drive. In that case, just type BIOS_DOS.bat and hit enter.

Edit: The above needs the ROM folder copied over too, but if you copied all the folders over, that's not a problem.

 

[tysonb]

yeah i seem to have forgot the rom folder

 

[tysonb]

it says problem opening DOS file and i can only type i cant navigate around

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Yeah, by navigate, I meant type. Just another way of saying it. Just copy over the whole BIOS_Gateway_P03.A2_Windows directory, and then go to the DOS folder after that. Should be something like "CD BIOS_GATEWAY_P03.A2_WINDOWS" or if shortened something like "CD BIOS_GA~1" then "CD DOS".

Note: I'm not exactly sure what the shortened folder name would be.

 

[Rockdpm]

Bad news.... You can't do anything with that PC anymore.... Since the BIOS is locked and you have changed the CPU... Unless you can clear the CMOS and acess the BIOS that way. Your all outtaf hope

 

[tysonb]

Im not sure what you mean, i still have the old cpu in

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Im not sure what you mean, i still have the old cpu in

I don't understand it either. If you can get the BIOS updated (assuming the update adds support for IB CPU's), you should be good to go.

 

[tysonb]

didnt have any luck doing the bios update last night thought

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Hmm, I really wish I could just be there to see what's going on to help you out, lol. It's hard to know exactly what the problem is here without seeing it. The Windows version of the update SHOULD have worked, but the DOS version almost certainly would. But then again, like I said earlier, I don't have any experience with updating a BIOS on an OEM system, so there might be something I'm not thinking of.

 

[tysonb]

there must be somthing im doing wrong because the bios never updates, i never succesfuly did the DOS bios update tho

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Getting around in DOS is a bit of a bear, if you haven't done it much. I can definitely understand that. My first computer was DOS only, so I used to be pretty good at it, but I haven't really used DOS for more than one or two things in years, so I'm a bit rusty myself, lol.

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Double Post...

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Ok, here we go. I've thought of a way to simplify everything. You already have the USB drive bootable and have booted it into DOS, so we're good there. Just copy the contents from the DOS directory directly to root of the USB drive. That takes navigating to the DOS folder out of the equation. Then copy the Rom folder over too. Copy actual folder and then just copy the Rom file directly to the root, the same way as you will with everything in the DOS folder. That makes sure that it can absolutely find the Rom file.

Once you boot into DOS, just run BIOS_DOS.bat from there (Should just be (Drive Letter):\BIOS_DOS.bat).

If that doesn't do it, I don't know what will.

 

[tysonb]

sounds easy enough, ill try it right away and post results

 

[tysonb]

I did exactly what what u said but when i typed "DOS_BIOS.bat" it said problem opening file ):

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Because it's not "DOS_BIOS.bat", it's "BIOS_DOS.bat" (unless you just typed that wrong here). Make sure you typed "BIOS_DOS.bat".

 

[tysonb]

yea i think i just screwed up here but ill try it again

 

[willard]

When doing stuff like then and you're unfamiliar with the command line it's usually a good idea to print out, or at least write down, the instructions. It's a massive pain to need to reboot the computer twice if you forget exactly how something needs to be typed.

 

[tysonb]

i thought i only needed to type one thing BIOS_DOS.bat, i did that buy i keep getting, error opening file for reading

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

What exactly is the error?