Well i went and messed up big time and now i have a dead computer!!! here is what happened. I was cleaning all my floppy's i had laying around(formatting them) and i put in one that had a bios on it. Ofcourse i didn't put a sticker on the floppy so i didn't know what was on it, so i put it in click on my A drive to see what was on it and ...
I have a Gigabyte BX-2000 MB (AWARD) that I recently flashed the BIOS and now it won't boot at all. It has dual bios and if the main bios is corrupted the backup bios is supposed to automatically take over. Apparently both are corrupted. I removed all cards, harddrive, and CDROM cables and I get one long beep. When I install an ISA video card I get no beeps. I The floppy drive is dead. ...
Because of trouble getting a new videocard to work on my old computer i tried upgrading the bios, this solved the problem with the videocard :-) , but a new problem arised :-(. Each time I turn my computer off, and try to restart it, it won't start. When I try turning the computer on, I can hear the ...
:? I am running a PCchips 572 board which has 4 simm slots and 2 dimm slots. I've been running 64 MBs of ramm in the simm slots 16 MB a piece. Purchased 128MB dimm popped it in took old out and nothing happened. Took one 128MB and still nothing. Blank screen death no CMOS boot no nothing. Did the hookie pokie and switched the ram around ...
I have a Compac aramarda 7770DMT and what happened with the Bios is this, from normal operation on one day,on the next day on power up the bios failed to complete it's checks, so I switched it off and back on again and every time (the computer was powered up) the bios failed to complete it's checks, it checked less items as shown on the screen untill there was nothing being checked at all and ...
I fried two k6 socket7 motherboards in a row by flashing them, and I was wondering if anyone could help me in a way or another.
One MB is a shuttle 591p, with a award bios. the mb beeped all the time and would not boot, but when I plugged in a ISA floppy controller it would scan the disk and them beep differently. it was looking for a bios, I thought, so I ...
Well after reading some of the tales of woe, i will add my own. I bought a Abit KT7a (V 1.3) only just 3 wks ago, with 256Mb of PC133(fine) and a very respectable Athlon Tbird running at 1.333Ghz(Fine). To this i added an Intel Modem, 52x CDRom, a savage 2000 graphics card (cheap with tvout and 64Mb), and finally a 60Gb Maxtor HDD. All went well for about 8 days then certain programs (especially ...
I tried running Bios Agent, but it crashed my compu. very interesting. Anyway, I have a custom built laptop with a SystemSoft bios, and it's got the latest bios as far as I know (v. 1.08), but the bios IS pretty old.
The ACPI bios is by Insyde, and it's a Insyde MobilePRO bios version 1.2. I guess it's never been updated. Do you think I can update the ACPI bios separately for ...