Need vbios for ECS L4S5MG/651+ 3.02

[quixotic]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with an update for the vbios of a l4s5mg/651+ rev 3.02 motherboard with an sis 651 chipset.

Thanks, I've included a link to the bios below.

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downlo ... =2&LanID=0

[cp]

get it at the download page :)

[quixotic]

Thanks!

[cp]

is it working as expected? are you able to use widescreen resolutions now?

[quixotic]

No, the system won't boot at all anymore.

[cp]

which flasher did you use? did you update from within windows or did you use a dos bootdisk? did the flasher warn you about non-matching mainboard ids?

[quixotic]

I used Winflash, and no it didn't.

[cp]

is there any chance of recovering the board? hotflashing the bios in another board? is the disk-drive responding when you power up the machine?

[quixotic]

The floppy drive lights up, and if I put a disk in the disk drive, it'll access it, but it won't load dos afterwards. The bios is on a socket, so I'm planning on buying a new chip from badflash.com

[cp]

since the bios is still accessing the disk the emergency flash is still working. no need to spend money on a new chip.
just put the flasher, the original bios and an autoexec.bat onto the disk. in the autoexec call the flash with the orignal bios as parameter (and if it's the award flash append '/py/sn', too). insert the disk and wait a few minutes. then you should have your system back.
and i'll take another look into the bios.

[quixotic]

Already tried that; it doesn't boot dos at all. It starts to access the floppy and then the system hangs.

[cp]

did you try to put a pci vga in? or maybe an agp if there's a slot?

[quixotic]

No, I'll try an agp board later today.

[quixotic]

The agp board worked, and the boot block does boot. The problem was with the floppy disk I was using at the time, so my system is restored. Thanks.

[cp]

did you flash the patched version or the original version from ECS? i'd just like to know if my patched version is working or not :)