MSI MS-6367 Bios Update / Upgrade

[Mad Professor]

I have a MSI MS-6367 Ver: 1.0, Witch has been removed from a HP computer.

I am trying to Flash the bios with a true MSI bios, and not a HP one.
But I am not having much luck.

Here are the details from the boot screen.

Copyright 2000 by Hewlett Packard Company
Rev. 3.03 09/04/2002

09/04/2002-nVidia-CRUSH1-6A61AM49C-00

So I tryied the uniflash progam 1.22 from (BiosCentral), It get 3/4 of the way and stoped, Oh poo.

Now I would like to try and reprogram this bios with the lastest HP or MSI bios.

BIOS Chip Details.
SST
49LF040
33-4C-NH
0237007-BA

HP Bios: (http://support.packardbell.com/uk/mypc/ ... er_ixtreme)
MSI Bios: (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/b ... 290&kind=1)

Now I have found the latest version of UniFlash 1.40, when i try and flash with the MSI or HP bios it says file size mismatch.

So I then pulled apart a spare computer with an nForce 2 chipset the same and the dead mainboard, booted to dos then swaped to the dead bios, ran the UniFlash program.

Both the MSI and HP bios are 256k in size but the UniFlash program says i have got a 512k bios chip.

Can anyone help me or am i just running around and around?

Thanks.

[KURIAKI]

HP Bios: (http://support.packardbell.com/uk/mypc/ ... er_ixtreme)

This is not an HP BIOS, it's a Packard Bell one for Nova motherboard.
Do you know the HP system model?

[Mad Professor]

Yep you are totaly right, brain on a go slow.

I don't know what model the mainboard came from.

[Mad Professor]

I have been looking around the intenet and it looks like this mainboard came from a "HP Pavilion 443.uk Desktop PC".

I have been unable to locate a bios for this model at this time.

[Mad Professor]

Ah, just a reply from the e-mail i sent to HP and thay have given me a link to the bios: (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/gene ... =pv-7507-1)

And guess what size the bios file is, Yep it's a 512k file.

[ajzchips]

But 3.03 is the version you already have...

[Mad Professor]

Had, lol.
BIOS is now FUBAR, So as long as it get it running again i will be happy.

[Mad Professor]

In the End, I gave up trying to hot swap and reflash the bios.
And just got a new Bios chips flashed by (flashbios.org)

[beatgr]

In the USA, this mainboard was used in the HP Pavillion 761n computer.
Search the HP web site for system number: P7478A

CAUTION, the 761n also appears to have used a SAMBA motherbaord - at some point. I have not seen specific BIOS for the MSI motherboard posted on the HP web site.

I have the MS-6367 mainboard, currently on the bench. It appears that the tweleve 1000 pF 6.3 vdc electroltic capacitors have ruptured. Lilkley due to a power spike on the 5 VDC bus (and/or heat build up).

g. beat

[NickS]

In the USA, this mainboard was used in the HP Pavillion 761n computer.
Search the HP web site for system number: P7478A

CAUTION, the 761n also appears to have used a SAMBA motherbaord - at some point. I have not seen specific BIOS for the MSI motherboard posted on the HP web site.

I have the MS-6367 mainboard, currently on the bench. It appears that the tweleve 1000 pF 6.3 vdc electroltic capacitors have ruptured. Lilkley due to a power spike on the 5 VDC bus (and/or heat build up).

g. beat

..or due to a batch of bad electrolyte?

[beatgr]

Yes - that is also VERY possible - and may have been the "root cause" for the power supply issue. The ruptured capacitors are ALL Chinese mfg. - whereas the Panasonics (Japan) are all in good shape.

Then again, if I open up the power supply (made in China) and find same mfg. and they are reptured -- then bad capacitors (as reported in IEEE Spectrum 2002) are at fault.

Sounds like poor indistrial espionage for electrolyte formulation -- and lack of complete capacitor mfg knowledge - to see the problem - with 500,000 engineers/year being graduated - you would think one would have noticed that !!

gb

[pwochung]

I've one of this board from HP. This morning, I flashed a wrong BIOS into it. The boot sector recovery did not work. I got the correct BIOS image from HP. The BIOS Chip is SST 49LF040. I tried hot swap onto a KT400 board (using SST 39SF020A) and flashed with UNIFlASH but failed. It reported data mismatch.

[beatgr]

After replacing 12 capacitors (Lelon 100 uF 6.3 VDC capacitors - Green - everyone burst) with new Panasonics from DigiKey -- HP computer started right up with a known good power supply.

Like is good (so far) - now to update software since August 2004 !!

gb

[beatgr]

Talking with HP Support. The BIOS version 3.06 (05/03/2002) posted in the downloads/drivers section is for the MSI MS-6367 motherboard (Pavilion 761n).

I installed (per insructions) appears to work fine!

gb

[NickS]

After replacing 12 capacitors (Lelon 100 uF 6.3 VDC capacitors - Green - everyone burst) with new Panasonics from DigiKey -- HP computer started right up with a known good power supply.

Like is good (so far) - now to update software since August 2004 !!

gb

Woohoo! Well done!