winflash gone bad

[twebbas]

Hi.

While trying to solve all the problems I have had recently with my com. (not booting at all. or booting after 12 tries, freezez and so on) I yesterday decided to upgrade my bios. Since I dont have an a: drive, I decided to use WinFlash. Bad Move. The com froze during the flash and I had no choice but to restart it.

Award BootBlock BIOS v.1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Awared Software, Inc.

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media...
Drive A error. System halt

The above, was the message I got when restarting. So I went to a friend of mine and borrowed a diskdrive a:. I made a bootdisk and put awdflash and latest bios fn25s028 on it. I actually managed to boot into the flashing-program. Now the following screen hits my eyes. And to be honest. I dont know what else to do. Please help me out here.

AwardBIOS Flash Utility v8.60C
(C)Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved

flash type -
warning :
File Name to Program fn25s028
System was not new AWARD BIOS version !
Please update ROM BIOS first ....


Message:: Please input File Name


A:\>

The marker stands at a:\> flashing. also the warning text flashes. So how do I proceed.? Since I got this far, it HAS to be solvable.

Best Wishes
Tobias


p.s I've read that this problem occurs when you have an old awdflash. Im using 8.22. Can't find a newer one.

plz help.

p.s 2. Should probably state that I have a shuttle sn25p. If that helps.

[twebbas]

A bit further now. .with v8.6

next page says the following

Flash Type - SST 49LF004A/B /3.3V

File name to program : fn25s028

Programming Flash Memory -

Flash ROM is Write-Protected

Please make sure whether lockout jumpers
is set to correct or not

F10 Exit

Exit is marked. Any ideas?

[KURIAKI]

Shuttle SN25P (FN25 V1.x, V2.x)
Enter the BIOS, Advanced BIOS Features, BIOS Write Protect.
This item allows you to enable or disable the BIOS write protection.

[twebbas]

thnx. but theres no way to get into bios..

[m1gx]

hey dude
I experience what u've been goin through right now, but mine is worst bec. My bios doesnt hav bootblock so its completely blockout.
bootblock is pretty cool w/o spendin time to remove flashchip and hotswap it to other mobo.

mine is sn25p updated to fn25s028 and boom it dies
I dont hav any idea whats so special with fn5s028 that it killed my bios and now hotswapping the chip to other mobo using uniflash wont work either
message:

unknown flash / or disable protection
eventhough i disabled the jumper protection

[limerry2000]

hi twebbas
With my experience there is a bios protect jumper on your
mother board.It usually besides you bios chip.you can jump
the other two jumpers to disable the protect.
I hope can hlep you some!!