Problem flashing!!! my bios ;)

Jason132 · Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:41 pm

Hey everyone im having trouble identifing which version i need.

I have an AMI mobo and usin sandra 2004 i hav identified that my bios needs updating.

I visited the AMI site but i got lost

I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to find out which bios i need.

thx jason132

Sun Dec 07, 2003 4:27 pm

1) do not believe everything Sandra tells you - it's not always the truth !
2) Use the Bios Agent linked on the top left from our main page www.wimsbios.com - run it and post the Info it found
3) Go to www.aida32.hu and download this fine program - better Sysinfo as Sandra ever does and it knows many mainboards

Jason132 · Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:05 am

I tried both of those the bios agent kept saying illegal operation and wouldnt work

The other one says i need a 32-bit or less Os

Any ideas ?

Jason132 · Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:11 am

Mobo name gigabyte GA-6WMM7

It came up with this and a link where to get the new bios from.

btw i had downloaded the wrong prog before

Jason132 · Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:35 am

so now i've got the new BIOS and that tool wot exactly do i hav to copy to a floppy disk ?

Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:27 am

Just the flasher program and the binary file, unless they provide an autoexec.bat as part of the package. Make sure the binary file isn't write protected, and that there's no config.sys or autoexec.bat (unless Gigabyte provided one).

Jason132 · Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:46 pm

right in the rar file i got :

6wmm7.f6

AF824G.exe

autoexec.exe

Also could you post a link to a flaser prog ... thx

sulbert · Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:18 pm

Jason132 wrote:Also could you post a link to a flaser prog ... thx

AF824G.exe is the flasher prog.

Are you sure there was autoexec.exe in the *.rar file and not autoexec.bat?

Jason132 · Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:43 pm

oh yeah it is .bat sry

So if i boot up with the floppy in with the bios and flasher prog wot will i hav to do then ?

sulbert · Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:34 am

If you copied the three files from the *.rar archive to a bootable floppy, just sit and wait and see what happens

Jason132 · Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:11 am

so i just put the files onto a floppy and boot up then see wot happens ?

btw wot should acctually happen ?

sulbert · Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:40 pm

Your BIOS is flashed. It may ask for a backup file name or something (haven't downloaded the *.rar archive myself and looked what's inside the autoexec.bat file).

I guess it's the first time for you to flash BIOS. Don't do it when your computer is working flawlessly with the old BIOS (and serious losses may result if anything goes wrong).

Jason132 · Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:36 pm

well after running multiple progs it has suggested that i upgrade my BIOS.

Btw will the latest BIOS enable me to use bigger processors ?

ATM the max is a 1000MHz.

If no is the answer then im just gonna buy a new mobo or new tower as i want a 2 GHz processor.

Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:55 pm

You won't do 2 GHz on that board. You need a Socket 478 (or pay a lot for a Powerleap upgrade, see http://plpadmin.tempdomainname.com/index2.html)

sulbert · Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:37 pm

NickS wrote:You need a Socket 478

... or Socket A (and 2 GHz Opterons are also available)