Corrupt BIOS 1

[kmmcdanie]

Hello,

I was flashing an Award BIOS and the computer crashed. Now the BIOS is corrupted and when I went back to flash it again the keyboard will now type caps only. This means NO NUMBERS, just the shift characters. Obviously I cannot complete the flash without indicating the correct file to flash.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best
Kathleen

 

[Freestone]

Some flash programs accept parameters allowing for BATch file processing. If your flash program allows this, then from a working computer, the BAT file can be written and transferred to the flash diskette. Have the flash diskette autoexec.bat point at this batch file.

 

[kmmcdanie]

Thank you but can you elaborate just a bit more? I am using the flash program provided by the motherboard manufacturer which is DFI. This is just a white box computer. :-(

It basically just comes up with an interface and asks you for the name of the file that you want to flash. Will I be able to do what you are suggesting?

I mean do I copy the autoexec.bat file from a working computer onto the flash diskette and then reference that file as the one to flash?

Thanks
Kathleen

 

[paskuda]

kmmcdanie,
maybe that document will help. There's a step-by-step description of procedure needed to recover AWARD bios (page four, right after AMI instructions).

Hope that helps,
Mike

 

[kmmcdanie]

Thank you Mike!

That did the trick. Can't thank you enough!

Kathleen