I severely screwed up!

[olrac]

My motherboard says A7Pro right on the darn thing. I updated the bios cause I bought a new processor and its the wrong one. It even tolde me it does not match but I figured that it said A7Pro right on the board so how can I go wrong? Anyways, the board will not even boot into dos to reprogram the original with the boot up disk. Is there any other way I can reprogram this bios chip? Is it possible to program it off the motherboard on a separate board of some sort with a serial cable? Cna I buy a new one?

 

[Crashman]

Yes

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[phsstpok]

If you are lucky the BIOS Boot Block still works. This means Floppy, keyboard and ISA video would still work. If you have only AGP and PCI then you will have to work blind.

Basically you need a bootable DOS disk with an Autoexec.bat file that contains the command to run the flash program in unattended mode, ie run without out user intervention. You also need the flash program and the BIOS file on that floppy.

See detailed instructions <A HREF="http://www.sysopt.com/articles/recoverbios/" target="_new">here</A>.

The Boot block can be slow to act, sometimes 10 to 20 minutes before the system realizes it need function in this failsafe mode.

<b>I type sixty words per minute. Ten are spelled correctly.</b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by phsstpok on 10/14/02 07:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Yes. You need to find out what BIOS chip type you have, get or create a proper burning tool, program your chip with the right image.

You might be able to convince the manufacturer to send you a new one in the mail for not too much money, that would probably be easiest.