BIOS Updates forum

Note to self: never get into techy stuff when tired. It'll lead to more embarrassment then you can handle.

Since I was browsing through this forum, I though I'd make sure that pure ISA floppy controllers should work where multi I/O controllers work right?

http://webhq.netfirms.com/motherboard/mboards.html

--> "Aristo Motherboard page Seems to be gone as of 01/17/1999"

Only thing that all-knowing Google turned up.

Depends on what flash utility you use. It's somthing like <flash utility executable> <parameters to flash without user input> <filename>.

*growl* ... even after getting a Linux router going I *still* don't know the value of documentation.[/b]

I got the sudden idea that I might have just become accomplice to laptop theft... Ah well, what has been said has been said.

My original idea was that you could remove the password by resetting the CMOS. Then I remembered that it was a laptop. So I did a bit of Googling, and I found http://www.pwcrack.com/bios.shtml. If you have access to another laptop, you can stick your disk in there and the password will be gone.

I don't know what happenned there, but what exactly do you mean by password on the hard-drive? A Windows password? Or a BIOS password?

How about giving us more details about your case? Are you planning to update your BIOS and need to make sure that you can recover it if it fails and goes to bootblock BIOS? If so, then you don't need a video card to flash when in the bootblock BIOS. The BIOS will complain, but it will still boot a f...

I have two PCI cards, one works, on doesn't. Nick is right, it's really trial and error.

Ouch. You fried your BIOS. Not literally, but now the bootblock doesn't even work. I had the same experience. Here are a few links on hot-flashing, what I used to recover my BIOS: http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=62&var2=0 http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php/...

I think I understand what you mean, but your english isn't very good.

So you flashed a wrong file and the bootblock BIOS came up?

Then using the bootlblock you flashed another wrong file?

And now you turn on the computer and nothing hapens? No beeps, nothing?

For the serial to PS/2 adapter to work you need a mouse that supports both protocols, and obviously yours only knows PS/2. As for the BIOS, you can't flash it while Windows is running because Windows "locks" the PCI bus. More knowledgable people can explaing what exactly that means, I just don't kno...

I have the same problem! Refer to my thread "Award boot block BIOS beep code: video error?" in the General section.

I was at a LAN party recently and a guy's computer was giving similar error messages while he was installing Windows. I don't remember what they were exactly, but all those hexadecimal addresses prompted me to pull out a stick of RAM thinking that it might be defective. I pulled out one, and it froz...