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Need vbios for ECS L4S5MG/651+ 3.02
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:02 am
by 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
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:33 pm
by cp
get it at the download page :)
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:40 pm
by quixotic
Thanks!
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:18 pm
by cp
is it working as expected? are you able to use widescreen resolutions now?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:44 pm
by quixotic
No, the system won't boot at all anymore.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:14 pm
by 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?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:29 pm
by quixotic
I used Winflash, and no it didn't.
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:11 pm
by 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?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:06 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:10 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:39 pm
by quixotic
Already tried that; it doesn't boot dos at all. It starts to access the floppy and then the system hangs.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:49 pm
by cp
did you try to put a pci vga in? or maybe an agp if there's a slot?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:56 pm
by quixotic
No, I'll try an agp board later today.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:58 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:08 pm
by 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 :)
