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It is working ok, as far as I know. Uniflash reports that it transfers the bios rom files successfully. At the moment it is the bios savior that is keeping the board alive.

Bilko

Update

I cleared the cmos and removed and shorted the battery but still the system hangs. So far (I think) I have established that:
1. The chip is ok. (It is a new Winbond)
2. The bios rom file is ok. (It worked fine with the bios savior).
3. The cmos settings are not interfering with things.

But ...

Denniss

I have taken care to clear the cmos by removing and then replacing the cmos jumper. I have not removed or shorted the battery. If you think this might help I will certainly give it a try.
Thanx
Bilko

Update

I have tried to flash the bios with the old rom files but with no success.
Today, I got a new Winbond chip delivered and put it in the board. I flashed the chip using my bios savior but the same thing happened as before. The computer boots up successfully to start with. It correctly ...

That looks very promising to me. I will get on the case first thing in the morning. Thanks a lot.

Bilko

That seems to sum it up perfectly. The ASD chip is ok but incompatible with the new bios. If only I had saved the original bios I could have flashed it back again and things would be fine. As it is I have no idea what the original bios was or how to find it. It just goes to show that even with a ...

The chip is identified by UniFlash as Winbond W29C020(C) /5v

UniFlash does report the flash as a success and as I say on boot-up the bios does seem to be ok until it suddenly hangs.

It is interesting that the bios savior flashed successfully first time but the on-board chip fails every time ...

Rainbow. I have tried several times to flash the bios using the good bios on the savior but it has failed every time. I have also used uniflash (that I got from the Rainbow site). Did you write that program? I have recommended it more than once on the abit ng. It is an extremely useful prog.

I ...

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago with same mobod and bios(Matsonic MS6383E, PC Chips M599LR) I was about to post a message for help but the first post I read was my problem exactly. I first flashed the updated bios to my bios savior successfully but then when I flashed to the chip on-board ...