BIOS seems ok... but not much after that!

bradschaider · Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:27 pm

I am using a J-Mark 720BF motherboard with the SIS620 chipset. The board would post and boot ok, but i need to update the BIOS for complaince issues (upgrading). The flash went ok, or so it appeared. Now when i boot, it POSTs then, checks the RAM, displays all the drives and all of that goes ok. But then when it trys to switches to the next screen (the one that displays a lot of info about your computer... eg. your processor, ram installed, pci cards, IRQs...) it doesn't ever get there. So it never attempts to boot from a device. It will sit there forever... what do i do now? Is that due to a bad flash? i can't flash back cause it doesn't attempt to boot from the floppy or anything, regaurdless of what you set it to in the BIOS. thanks!!!

Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:39 pm

Did you clear CMOS and load setup defaults?

bradschaider · Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:45 pm

Yes, twice now.

Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:47 pm

What new BIOS file did you use to flash (url please?), and did you save the old BIOS before/during flashing ?

Do you have another motherboard with the same size flash which you could use to do a "Hot swap" in?

bradschaider · Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:01 pm

Actually, i tried what you said again, but this time didn't change any BIOS settings, and found my problem is that i am using a USB keyboard. In the bios it offers USB keyboard support, but if you enable it the boot process won't complet. weird! guess i have to dig out an old 5-pin keyboard...

thanks!