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Award Bios Problem
Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help.
Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Where to from here? Thanks |
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Award Bios Problem
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum"
wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP card was not seated properly. Power off, open the case, and see that the card is seated properly, including any tywraps or handles it may have. Then, cross your fingers and hope that this was the problem. As a faulty bios-flash may be a big problem :-) -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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Award Bios Problem
"Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP card was not seated properly. Power off, open the case, and see that the card is seated properly, including any tywraps or handles it may have. Then, cross your fingers and hope that this was the problem. As a faulty bios-flash may be a big problem :-) This has on-board video. There is an AGP slot but never ever used it. I don't have a ISA or PCI video card to test with. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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Award Bios Problem
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:54:23 -0600, "beach bum"
wrote: "Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP card was not seated properly. This has on-board video. There is an AGP slot but never ever used it. I don't have a ISA or PCI video card to test with. You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess ? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the PC. Next thing I would suggest is to borrow an AGP card and see if this shows anything. Or read http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm and maybe pick up some hints. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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Award Bios Problem
"Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:54:23 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: "Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP card was not seated properly. This has on-board video. There is an AGP slot but never ever used it. I don't have a ISA or PCI video card to test with. You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess ? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the PC. That's how I accessed the bios setup before the flash. Now it won't do anything other than try to read the A: drive for a bit. With a dos boot disk it would ask for date and time input and hoping that's where it was stopping now I tried the enter key, but obviously that's not where it's hanging. Next thing I would suggest is to borrow an AGP card and see if this shows anything. Or read http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm and maybe pick up some hints. Found that link. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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Award Bios Problem
"beach bum" wrote in message
... "Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:54:23 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: "Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep and what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios jumper was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII Celron 500. 256 Megs of ram. The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00 Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP card was not seated properly. This has on-board video. There is an AGP slot but never ever used it. I don't have a ISA or PCI video card to test with. You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess ? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the PC. That's how I accessed the bios setup before the flash. Now it won't do anything other than try to read the A: drive for a bit. With a dos boot disk it would ask for date and time input and hoping that's where it was stopping now I tried the enter key, but obviously that's not where it's hanging. Next thing I would suggest is to borrow an AGP card and see if this shows anything. Or read http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm and maybe pick up some hints. Found that link. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok Do not give up hope yet, The fact that the computer is still trying to read a floppy diskette may be the motherboard still trying to locate a valid flash loading boot floppy and flash. On a different board my flash update went wrong similar to yours. Mine proved to be a defective boot flash (or wrong file, I never did determine which) download on my boot floppy. I downloaded a new copy of the flash and flash loading program. After creating a new boot disk with everything I was able to flash the board successfully the second try from the floppy drive. |
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Award Bios Problem
"GlowingBlueMist" wrote in message anews.com... "beach bum" wrote in message ... "Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:54:23 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: "Gerard Bok" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum" wrote: Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help. Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep snip Or read http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm and maybe pick up some hints. Found that link. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok Do not give up hope yet, The fact that the computer is still trying to read a floppy diskette may be the motherboard still trying to locate a valid flash loading boot floppy and flash. On a different board my flash update went wrong similar to yours. Mine proved to be a defective boot flash (or wrong file, I never did determine which) download on my boot floppy. I downloaded a new copy of the flash and flash loading program. After creating a new boot disk with everything I was able to flash the board successfully the second try from the floppy drive. Shall try that. I've been using the dos boot disc. Thanks |
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