Flash bios

[BuckeyeComputers]

afraid i know the answer to this already, but here goes anyway, have a DFI AM33-el motherboard, went and got the latest bios flash and start the system with the alt+F2 to enter award flash. program started ok and about midway thru the flash process the screen went black and just set there. left it set for about 5 min but still nothing, hooked a differnt monitor to make sure it wasnt just monitor, but nothing, so since all else had failed i shut of the power and restarted. now i get 1 long 2 short beeps, post card shows boot but not getting any video signal and floppy now stays lit all the time? any help out there or is this board gone...

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

I guess no answer means bad news right...

 

[Landwalker]

Although this has never happened to me before, I've come close to it. First, are you using a video card that's PCI or AGP? Second, does the motherboard have an onboard VGA? If the answer to both of these questions are "Yes," take out the AGP or PCI video card, and ENABLE onboard VGA. Then plug your monitor into the onboard VGA card... that may work.

The motherboard isn't "shot." It'll still work, but your BIOS chip needs to be reprogrammed or replaced. To reprogram the chip, I've read steps out there that you can take out the BIOS chip and find a motherboard with a similar chip. Enter the flash utility and get ready to flash, using your WORKING Bios. When you're about to hit enter to proceed, take out the chip that's on that motherboard and "slap" in your chip. It should work. However, one must NOTE that there is risk associated with this.

The other option is to ask your motherboard manufacturer for a new chip. If they want to reprogram your old chip, I'd suggest not using the above proceedure; however, if they want to ship you a new chip, you might as well try the above proceedure, for either way that chip is useless unless you can reprogram it, using the method above.

Again, the method is dangerous, but do it if they want to send you a NEW chip, but don't do the method if they want to REPROGRAM the chip. Also, I'd do some searching about this method before actually doing it. I'm remembering this on the fly, and I can't remember the sites or the actual proceedure. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors to recover your motherboard.

If you still can't find any of the sites that instruct you in the described proceedure, let me know.

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

Ok did some searching and think i found what you was talking about LandWalker, this site has some usefull info so i am posting the addy, hasnt worked for me yet but still trying to force a reprogram.

http://www.flazh.de/bios/english/update.htm

If i get it to work ill post back

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

Success, by following the fix i found on there for award bios, my board is back up and runing. steps i did was
1.had to put in a pci video card because my onboard video would not work(that was the beep code i was getting 1 long 2 short
2.started system with simple bootdisk and award flash and new bios file.(the system was stopping because it said the new file did not match my system. that was the hold up.
3.downloaded the original bios file from dfi
4.started the flash process again(again it started to flash and went to a black screen only this time i let it set for about an hour.
5.went back and still saw a blank screen no keyboard function or anything. this time instead of killing the power i just turned the system off and then turned back on. system came up and booted into windows shut down and switch back to onboard video and everything works fine

hope this helps someone else in the future

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

another note that i found was where they talked about the beeps that award would do when finished?.. never heard the first beep out of it