BX133 bios update gone terribly wrong...

TB · Mon Jun 03, 2002 6:58 pm

Hi the latest BIOS flash has gone terrible wrong on my good ´ol BX133 RAID. I flashed the BIOS and everything seemed fine, but now it present the Award BootBlock bios. Fine I thought.. I´ll just update it to a working version then. But this is a nocando. Awdflash will not recognize the BIOS, unknow flash type it says. Uniflasher neither.
I then swapped the BIOS from a BE6II v2.0 and tried to flash that one, but still unknow flash type. How can I save my motherboard? I thought I could flash the BE6II bios with the BX133 image? (Those two boards are identical, besiden the socket)

Please help me out, I REALLY need this computer again.

Cheers
TB

Mon Jun 03, 2002 8:06 pm

Another UniFlash-incompatible board - and Abit again!

Try using another version of Awdflash (newer/older) or AMIflash. If it fails, you can hot-flash http://rainbow.ht.st/hardware/hotflash.html

TB · Mon Jun 03, 2002 8:34 pm

Hmm, the bioschip in in the supported chiplist, but uniflasher (and awdflash) doesn´t recognize it. I tried to force uniflasher to flash the BIOS, but it will not work. the BIOS chip is a PMC-pm29f002t-12pc.

The BE6II BIOS chip I tried is the same story.. not recognized by any program. that chip is a Winbond W29c020C-90B

Please help me out...

Cheers
TB

Mon Jun 03, 2002 9:56 pm

It's NOT the chip problem, it's BOARD problem. It will work with another board.

TB · Mon Jun 03, 2002 10:30 pm

So if I can flash the chip in another board it will be fine?
But howcome awdflash not can recognize either the original chip or the BE6II chip?

Cheers
TB

Mon Jun 03, 2002 10:42 pm

Have you tried various awdflash versions? Some versions work on some boards...
If should work fine (with UniFlash) on compatible board.

TB · Tue Jun 04, 2002 11:26 am

I have only used the same version af AWDFLASH since it has been working perfectly before.

/TB

TB · Tue Jun 04, 2002 5:44 pm

I have now tried an older version af Awdflash, but still same result.

Have I destoryed the entire motherboard? or perhaps because I use a Tualatin CPU in it?

Chers
TB

Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:57 pm

Try the AMIflash - if no success, use the hot-flash method.

TB · Sat Jun 08, 2002 1:21 pm

Woohoo it works again! A guy here in Denamrk did the hotflash for me (In an Aopen AMD mobo). He had a ZIF socket for the bios chip, and he used the AMIflash utility. Now my computer rocks again.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers
TB

Sat Jun 08, 2002 5:41 pm

Hey, I just realize I have a 32-pin ZIF socket for DIL-chips lying around. That would make hotflashing a lot easier. Thanks for the great idea/inspiration

Sat Jun 08, 2002 5:48 pm

I have ZIF socket in my MS-5120 board

The socket is between the slots so I had to put the ZIF in two sockets so it will fit there.