Award to ami bios

red2000z28 · Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:18 am

I have a PC Chips M861G V1.6A motherboard. It is supposed to to have an AMI bios on it. Somehow it has an award bios. I need to flash it with the AMI Bios that is available from PC Chips to solve all of the problems I have been having. When I try to flash it I get "Error 20 - Cannot reprogram flash rom." Then it says Disable USB. I have tried to flash it using the /L command and it tries to flash 3 times with the same results.

I am thinking it could be becuase I am trying to flash an award bios with an AMI flash utility and bios file. Is there a way to get rid of the award bios file and flash it with the correct AMI bios??

red2000z28 · Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:25 pm

Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:47 pm

What is your current Bios-ID ?

Maybe you got an ECS-version of your board with Award Bios ?

Error 20 usually means the fashprog is not able to identify the installed Flashrom chip or it is write protected by jumper or Bios option.

easterlingman · Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:58 am

I also have this motherboard with an athlon 64 3000+ and a gig of memory, and I've been having problems with it ever since I bought it.

i've run memtest86+ (the 64 bit version) and come up with hundreds of thousands of errors, and i have no idea why.. i feel like i've wasted a couple hundred bucks on this board and processor and memory

the board has M861G V1.6A printed on it, but sisoft sandra identifies it as an ECS K8M800-8237, but i can't find updated BIOSes for either of these boards.. sandra also says that the voltage is set incorrectly, but the bios i currently have doesn't have a control for the CPU voltage

my symptoms are constant crashes, BSODs, it's a nightmare..

any help would be appreciated

easterlingman · Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:41 am

anything

Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:41 am

red2000z28 wrote:I have a PC Chips M861G V1.6A motherboard. It is supposed to to have an AMI bios on it. Somehow it has an award bios.

It can be an OEM version of PcChips M861G for other vendor.
ECS K8M800-8237 is a very different motherboard.
Run BIOS Agent and post back your results:
http://www.unicore.com/biosagent/index.cfm

easterlingman · Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:51 am

KURIAKI wrote:
red2000z28 wrote:I have a PC Chips M861G V1.6A motherboard. It is supposed to to have an AMI bios on it. Somehow it has an award bios.
It can be an OEM version of PcChips M861G for other vendor.
Run BIOS Agent and post back your results:
http://www.unicore.com/biosagent/index.cfm

i got

09/27/2005-K8M800-8237-6A7L1E19C-00

super i/o: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 3 found at port 2Eh

chipset: VIA 82C204 rev 0

Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:29 am

Please post the full report and not only patrts of it ! The Bios OEM message is missing.

Looks to be an ECS K8M800-M2 Rev 1.x with latest Bios
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/P ... 21&LanID=9

easterlingman · Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:01 pm

oops!

here it is:

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.52
BIOS Date: 09/27/05
BIOS Type: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 09/27/2005-K8M800-8237-6A7L1E19C
OEM Sign-On: 83010x
Chipset: VIA 82C204 rev 0
Superio: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 3 found at port 2Eh
OS: WinX64 SP1
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ 1994 MHz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Unknown
BIOS ROM Size: Unknown
Memory Installed: 1021 MB
Memory Maximum: Unknown

eSupport.com, Inc.
1-800-800-BIOS (2467)
www.esupport.com

Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:53 pm

easterlingman wrote:BIOS ID: 09/27/2005-K8M800-8237-6A7L1E19C
OEM Sign-On: 83010x

It's an OEM version of ECS Elitegroup K8M800-M2.
Do you have a brand system? Where do you bought it?

easterlingman · Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:43 pm

KURIAKI wrote:
easterlingman wrote:BIOS ID: 09/27/2005-K8M800-8237-6A7L1E19C
OEM Sign-On: 83010x
It's an OEM version of ECS Elitegroup K8M800-M2.
Do you have a brand system? Where do you bought it?

nah it's not a brand system.. i got it from an online dealer called SMK Super Store as a combo (got the mobo, processer, and memory as a package) with a 1 year warranty on the mobo and 60 days on the processor and memory

Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:18 pm

So it's the version 2.0 of K8M800-M2.
http://www.smksuperstore.com/catalog/vi ... p?ID=12854
Or PcChips M861G, but the page says "Mfr Part Number: MB-871G V1.5":
http://www.smksuperstore.com/catalog/vi ... p?ID=13395
BTW PcChips and ECS are the same company and they share a lot of BIOS for his motherboards.
Ask them for BIOS support:
(949) 454-1753

inspection · Tue May 02, 2006 3:15 am

red2000z28 wrote:I have a PC Chips M861G V1.6A motherboard. It is supposed to to have an AMI bios on it. Somehow it has an award bios. I need to flash it with the AMI Bios that is available from PC Chips to solve all of the problems I have been having. When I try to flash it I get "Error 20 - Cannot reprogram flash rom." Then it says Disable USB. I have tried to flash it using the /L command and it tries to flash 3 times with the same results.

I am thinking it could be becuase I am trying to flash an award bios with an AMI flash utility and bios file. Is there a way to get rid of the award bios file and flash it with the correct AMI bios??

I have the same problem with the same board. Same issue when I tried to flash.
My problem was a very unstable operation when I tried to run the MB with Athlon Xp 3400+ 64bit, with a Kingston Value Ram KVR400/512R.
I solved the problem by dumping the Kingston Value Ram, and replaced it with a PNY D512MPC32OPT. The problem went away.

PC chips finally called. The technician told me I got a MB from someone that they believe had "forced" the Award Bios into the PCChips M861 v1.6 MB. He said he couldn't help but suggested my CPU may be altered. I then called AMD. They ran the serial number check and confirmed the CPU is genuine.

I saw also the AMI chip on the MB.

Can someone tell me if it is possible to "FORCE" AWARD BiOS software on to an AMI BIOS chip?

Wed May 03, 2006 5:34 pm

KVR400/512R sounds like registered RAM - it might have has trouble to run as non-registered. But I may be wrong as I don't know the specs of this ram.

red2000z28 · Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:12 am

KURIAKI wrote:
red2000z28 wrote:I have a PC Chips M861G V1.6A motherboard. It is supposed to to have an AMI bios on it. Somehow it has an award bios.
It can be an OEM version of PcChips M861G for other vendor.
ECS K8M800-8237 is a very different motherboard.
Run BIOS Agent and post back your results:
http://www.unicore.com/biosagent/index.cfm

Sorry it took so long, I didnt have email relpies checked.

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.61
BIOS Date: 09/27/05
BIOS Type: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 09/27/2005-K8M800-8237-6A7L1E19C
OEM Sign-On: 83412
Chipset: VIA 82C204 rev 0
Superio: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 3 found at port 2Eh
OS: WinXP SP2
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ 2998 MHz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Unknown
BIOS ROM Size: Unknown
Memory Installed: 1022 MB
Memory Maximum: Unknown
ACPI Revision: 1.0

eSupport.com, Inc.
1-800-800-BIOS (2467)
www.esupport.com