BIOS Updates forum

my suggestions would have been: - get another version of uniflash (there are/were some more recent versions on rom.by) - get another version of amiflash - get another board to flash the chip on - build an eeprom programmer (ct'flash, ideflash, willem) these suggestions are more or less the ones alr...

Well, it's been a bit of time now, and I'm pretty surprised about the lack of any suggestions other than checking for bad caps and having a properly formatted disk! I don't know if I was asking these questions in the wrong place, or if it's just quiet round here these days? I'm going to build myself...

It strikes me that perhaps it possible to only update the bootblock, then use the internal boot block recovery on the Asus board itself. That should be fine as I can successfully flash a bootblock onto either chip, however I do not have the Asus boot block to flash :-) I do not know why Uniflash wil...

full formatted floppy didnt make any difference, and uniflash doesn't read from floppies on my nforce board. I'm currently considering building a flash programmer, as I'm not going to pass more money to Asus for a replacement bios. Will take a look at Uniflash source and see if there's any comments ...

hi dennis,

I'm trying the full formatted drdos floppy right now. is there a particular set of command switches I should be using for a total flash including bootblock?

I was interested in the /i switch but to be honest the explanation on the output of aminf342 -h didn't amount to much

Hi Denniss, thanks for the advice. I have tried using Aminf342 just now, however I get the some sort of exception handler: PMODE/W: ABORT : 00 EXCEPTION 6 etc etc I tried with aminf342 latest.bin -r aminf342 latest.bin -r /b /n aminf342 latest.bin -r /b /n /i maybe there's a combination that works w...

a clarification:

Both flash chips are identical, both can be flashed by the biostar built-in flasher with any of the biostar bioses.

Neither Biostar or Asus bios can be flashed successfully by Uniflash.

Asus's Aflash won't run on Biostar board as it's looking for an Asus bios id.

I'm not sure, I think it's to do with the Asus write protection. you see I can use this flash chip in the biostar board, flashing it works fine, however neither uniflash, the asus aflash, nor a whole bunch of awdflash will let me flash either chip with the asus bios. Only uniflash even tries, and it...

Hi Yes, I've given the board a thorough visual inspection, there is no sign of damage anywhere, no leaking caps, nothing seems wrong. I just booted the board with the PLCC from the Biostar, obviously the board doesn't post, but there is no beeping noise either. Despite searching like crazy, I can't ...

Hi there, My Asus A7V600-X board died last weekend: Booted up.. BIOS Messages font is corrupted Shutdown Reseat GPU, CPU Ram etc. Boot up, No POST. Beep pattern of 1 second ON, 1 second OFF continuously I've tried to hot flash on a couple of different boards with the following results: on 2 Intel PI...