Flashed wrong BIOS

[MrPanther0]

Well as the title says I flashed the wrong BIOS to my mobo. I have a abit Nf7-s2g. This is not to be confused with the regular Nf7-S which has the nice nforce sound.


My old Nf7-S died so I got my friend to order a new one ( i dont have a CC ) and he accidentally got the S2G. Its the same board it seems but it has a different south bridge and some generic AC 97 audio controller. My only problem, besides the sound, is that the new board only sees my Athlon XP-M 2500+ as an unknown 1200 MHZ CPU.

That really sucks because this new board doesnt let me mess with the multiplier. But the old one did so i decided to try to flash the new board with the old board's bios..... stupid decision

Well due to my brilliant decision I cant flash the old bios back because i dont even have a working screen! This is horribly bad as I have a lot of stuff due this friday that resides on my hard drive.

Is there anyone I can recover from this besides having to buy a new motherboard?

 

[PluggedN]

Yes request a new bios chip instead from Abit for that mobo. You might wanna try clearing the cmos as well (for at least 30 secs and remove the mobo battery at the same time) as when you flashed the new one some of your old settings might be conflicting with the new bios you flashed.

Gluck

 

[MrPanther0]

Thanks for the info! How do I go about ordering just the BIOS chip from ABIT?

 

[PluggedN]

I would just call their customer support line and tell them what you did and im sure they would send you a replacement.

 

[endyen]

The best way to get a replacement bios is at http://www.abit-usa.com/abitparts/ AFAICR they only charge for shipping, which is a much better deal than anybody else.
BTW to bad the flash didn't work.

 

[PunterHunter]

Hi Ya,

Abit UK will do a flash repair (assuming that the chip is actually OK) and or supply you with a new chip, but that will set you back around £20.

If you know someone who has the same motherboard you can repair it yourself. I too flashed the wrong bios by mistake to an NF7-s. What you need to do is either take the working chip out of another MB, insert into yours and then start the system in dos mode. Whilst the system is still on, remove the bios chip (yes it can be done withouht blowing everything up) insert the non-working chip and then flash it with the correct bios - or you can start the working system, take out the chip once started and insert your's etc..

It does work, trust me.

 

[Crashman]

You probably did NOT flash the BOOT BLOCK, and the BIOS has a utility built in for recovery. Simply put the correct BIOS file on a floppy with the flash utility and hold down a hot key at boot. I don't remember what the hot key is...Home perhaps, or maybe Insert...it's been years since I've done something that silly.

But I've given you enough info to google the rest. Or ask Abit how to do it.