Tiny Problem

[pcxsis]

hi everybody,
I have just acquired an AMD Athlon 1000Mhz mobo n chip, taken out of a tiny base unit, motherboard is an MS-6191 made by Microstar Intl. I flashed the bios up to rv 1.6 using the update from msi's website, and flash goes well but comes up with 'flash programming error' at the end, i thought ok and reflashed, same thing happens. i rebooted to see if it would run (been here before with an old pcchips M575, so i knew about the bios recovery) and it boots fine, but fails during hardware detection in windows xp setup and also fails to reboot automatically at any stage, i was wondering if anybody had an original tiny bios in a form of a rom file or similar, or could otherwise help me resolve this issue. i have been to tiny's website, times website and msi's and cannot find anything helpful,

thanks in advance AJ

[pcxsis]

Hi again,
last night just out of curiousity i tried installing xp sp1 instead of sp2, and that seems so far to have worked, also on a separate hdd i installed server 2003 datacenter ed and it runs that flawlessly as well havent done a reliability test on it yet, but this looks promising, it even rebooted at correct points.....
does anyone know a good way to make potential problems appear as in to test if its going to be stable?

AJ

[NickS]

Thanks for the useful information about XP SP2. I do know someone with this board but he lives near Liverpool and is not very computer literate, so getting a BIOS dump for the current Tiny/Time BIOS may be tricky.

[pcxsis]

Hi, only me
did a little more digging around and found out that packard bell also used the MS-6191, and they do provide bioses (athena ms-6191) rev 1.1 thru 1.3, thats for anyone thats really stuck, what i did in the end is uniflashed the MSI bios onto the system, just to make sure it was nicely written on its now all put together and making a nice racket in my old gateway case, currently running fedora core 3 linux, which can be quite sensitive as goes hardware all is good though.

AJ

p.s. the packard bell download is a floppy maker, you will need to use a more up2d8 flash util to make it work in most cases i would have assumed.

[lucske74]

Here you find all the bios versions for that board http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/b ... 121&kind=1
I hope it's help you a lot .