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All,

Any utility and circuit available to program a bios chip through the parallel port? Any suggestion will be appreciated? If none is available, I will develop this capability myself and keep you posted.

Miki Out.

You need a new graphic card.

Thanks,

Miki.

With Uniflash, you need to chiplist and use the -FORCE XXXX switch. Uniflash will put something on the chip for you if it is supported. But still this may not work if the chips are formatted or sectored differently.

I just had a similar problem.

Thanks,

Miki.

While hotflashing, I accidentally flash my working system with the wrong bios file. When I try to recover by booting the computer with a bootable floppy, I got the following prompt: Award BootBlock Bios V1.0 Bios ROM Checksum error Detecting Floppy Drive A... INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Here ...

Evasive, I've been using exactly the one you pointed to me. I know it's the right bios. Because when the system was functional, I've used to update from version 1.0 to version 1.16. The problem now is that it doesn't seem to work with hotflashing. I think the best bet would be to find another HP sys...

indeed it looks like someone has tried to flash some Asus retail bios on the board and that's why it wasn't working in the first place. I have to admit you've nailed it right in the head. Having said that, is there a way out? How to recover from a bad flash resulting from the use of "some ASUS reta...

Can anyone explain what's going on here. First let me explain: I have an award bios chip SST39F020A from an HP P2B-VT board I was trying to hotflash using an Abit BE6-II system. I got the original bios file from HP and using Uniflash 1.47, I force-flash the chip with the bootblock included. After fl...

Two 256k Chips: One is sectored as 4X64k and the other is structured as 3X64k, 1X32k, 2X8k, 1X16k. The question is: can these two chips be flashed by the same bin and be used interchangeably?

Thanks,

Miki.

Check the hotflash log out and let me know what you think: 00:13:34.81: UniFlash v1.47re.08 started: A:\UNIFLASH.EXE -E BIOS.ROM -FORCE BFB6 -UNLOCK -LOG 00:13:35.14: AWARD flash interface enabled 00:13:35.64: Chipset detected: Intel AGPSet 440BX/ZX [AWARD BIOS] 00:13:35.75: Flat Real Mode initializ...

Evasive,

The file is not the problem then since this is the one I've been using. Even when I use the -Asus switch I got a flashing error. Maybe the old Abit BE6-II I use for the hot flash is the problem. I will try again on a different system. I think another HP board might be ideal.

Thanks,

Miki.

Anyone with the original bios for the P2V-BT (Asus/HP board) with Via Appolo 133A Chipset? HP provides an update to the original bios but the update doesn't seem to work well uniflash. When hotflashing with Uniflash, the update seems to program the chip for the Intel BX chipset variant. Thanks, Miki.