I need to overwrite Award BIOS with AMI BIOS?

[Rules2liveby]

Like a tit I installed the wrong version of the BIOS software for my motherboard which, though it is the same board nearly is Award BIOS not the original AMI.

It didn't complain that I was converting it to Award, and now, although the system works perfectly, it misdetects my CPU speed.

I need to return it to AMI firmware but the flash utilities from AMI are cleverer and detect that it is currently Award and complain. I have the correct .BIN file ready but as yet no way to apply it.

Has anyone got any suggestions please because it's starting to piss me off!

 

[gargouille]

You're gonna learn more about computers than you ever wanted to know.
Have you done the obvious, which is email support at each BIOS mfr.?
They've obviously seen the condition before and may have a very simple fix for you.
Didja' google for it?

 

[gargouille]

Should have added, sooner or later someone's gonna' suggest a "hot-swap" with a chip from another board...a very shooting-craps method in my opinion.
As I said before, the manufacturers of each BIOS might have a very simple workaround. You just need to ask them.

 

[Rules2liveby]

I have left messages for each - they haven't got back to me yet.

 

[Snickle]

Sometimes a cheaper option to replacing the motherboard is an updated BIOS/CMOS chip from

http://www.unicore.com.

In my case it's not cost-effective because there's no longer any CPUs made for my board, 1GHz was the fastest and I have a 700MHz.

 

[roamer1]

I take it you didn't do a .bak of the old bios before proceding to flash?? If you did, the Award flash utility should restore it.

 

[Rules2liveby]

That would be nice, wouldn't it? Sadly no.