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failed bios update help needed
Hi,
I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) |
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Removing the battery for a few seconds should reset the BIOS to default settings which will allow you to boot with a floppy disk. Alexander Linkenbach wrote: Hi, I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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"Alexander Linkenbach" wrote in message ...
Hi, I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? alex A couple of weeks ago I got "bios failed to flash" when I tried to update the bios on my SK8V mainboard. After some surfing of the internet, I found www.badflash.com . They make new bios chips for most PC's. I put in my order at about 3:30 pm, and received my new bios chip the next morning, and it worked perfectly -- with the upgraded bios I had originally tried to flash. I can't recommend BadFlash highly enough. -- Bob Day http://bobday.vze.com |
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Mike Walsh wrote:
Removing the battery for a few seconds should reset the BIOS to default settings which will allow you to boot with a floppy disk. Well, it's not the settings that are shagged, there is actually a wrong bios sitting in the flash rom. I can easily set the settings to default, but that does not help at all. alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) |
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Bob Day wrote:
"Alexander Linkenbach" wrote in message ... Hi, I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? alex A couple of weeks ago I got "bios failed to flash" when I tried to update the bios on my SK8V mainboard. After some surfing of the internet, I found www.badflash.com . They make new bios chips for most PC's. I put in my order at about 3:30 pm, and received my new bios chip the next morning, and it worked perfectly -- with the upgraded bios I had originally tried to flash. I can't recommend BadFlash highly enough. -- Bob Day http://bobday.vze.com Thanks for the tip, but: chip is soldered to the mb, damn. I just thought of a possible workaround: If I could get to boot from different source, like a pci-slot controller. Or via network, but I have no idea how to set this up. alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) |
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:23:20 +0000, Alexander Linkenbach
wrote: Hi, I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. What's an "Imperial G" motherboard like, exactly? Any/all details might be relevant. Does it have a socketed or soldered-on bios chip? Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". Is it running what looks like the Imperial G bios or an HP bios? After flashing, did you enter the bios and try setting the boot device(s)? How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I'd try disconnecting ALL non-essential devices and only connect a floppy drive. Then I'd try disabling all boot devices in bios except floppy. Then i'd try to boot and watch the floppy access light... even if it doesnt' boot it could be useful if it tried to access that drive. If it tries to access the drive, you might be able to put together an emergency recovery floppy that it automatically accesses. What bios make (for example, Award, AMI, Phoenix) and revision number (again, # for the bios core, not the motherboard bios version, for example Award 4.51)? I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? Do you have the board manual (or can you get one)? Such jumper would typically be in bottom right-hand area of the board, if it's separate from the clear CMOS jumper. If all else fails, use the clear CMOS jumper and/or pull battery for a few minutes. Note that if the bios EEPROM is soldered on rather than socketed, this should be a last attempt, as clearing CMOS might then result in it not POSTing at all. If the bios is socketed and you have the correct bios, you can (or have someone else) reprogram the EEPROM or provide that bios file to a service which programs it into another EEPROM for you. Then there's "bios hot flashing", Google will turn up info on that. |
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Mike Walshwrote:
Removing the battery for a few seconds should reset the BIOS to default settings which will allow you to boot with a floppy disk. No, it won't that will only clear the CMOS, not the BIOS. You just need to flash the BIOS to clear it, and have the floppy w/ the new BIOS on it when you boot up. However, if you mess up while installing the new BIOS, such as restart the computer in the middle of the installation: chances are, you'll have to send the MoBo back to the manufacturer: But I don't think that's your problem. Let me look into flashing the BIOS a little bit more and I'll get back to you. |
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Fantabulum wrote:
Mike Walshwrote: Removing the battery for a few seconds should reset the BIOS to default settings which will allow you to boot with a floppy disk. No, it won't that will only clear the CMOS, not the BIOS. You just need to flash the BIOS to clear it, and have the floppy w/ the new BIOS on it when you boot up. However, if you mess up while installing the new BIOS, such as restart the computer in the middle of the installation: chances are, you'll have to send the MoBo back to the manufacturer: But I don't think that's your problem. Let me look into flashing the BIOS a little bit more and I'll get back to you. Yeah, most of the replies I got so far are about clearing the cmos, if if my initial post was not read. However I solved it! With the hd disconnected I was able to boot with my Ultimate Boot CD - which yet again proved to the best tool in the world - in defensive mode. I could start uniflash and after several hours of browsing I even found a fitting bios image. Up and running now, thanks for all replies. alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) |
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Alexander Linkenbach wrote:
Hi, I've just done something terribly stupid: Doing a bios update on an Imperial G motherboard I actually selected the wrong bios, the HP-Version rather than the Imperial one. Now the computer halts at boot with "A disk error occured". How can I get the old or even the right one back in? Bios is accessible it just seems not to adress the controller correctly. I have found some references regarding a Recovery Jumper which I cannot find on the MB and secondly I cannot find a site with a crisis recovery disk. Anybody have any experience with this? alex http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm |
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S.Heenan wrote:
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm Thanks, very good link. That is if you don't have phoenix bios. It looks like the recovery I was looking for (not any more, solved it!) is only possible on Ami Bios. Good to know for future purchases. alex -- "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich." (Sir Peter Ustinov) |
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