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Here's my situation. I have a Chaintech 7NJL6 AMD nForce 2 mobo that has a dead Award BIOS.

I also have a working P4 mobo w/a VIA chipset and AMI bios.

I have been trying for the past 6 hours or so to hot flash the chaintech bios using the P4 mobo to no avail. Is this even possible?

I don't have a floppy so I am burning CDs that boot to DOS and then I run the Award flasher. I tried using award flasher 8.94 first.

I used /qi /py /sn first only and it told me I should try putting in nvmac:xxx/wb
So next I tried /py /sn /cp /qi /e /nvmac:002332c416ad/wb
And it gave me the same message about it not being an nForce board.

Next I tried uniflash and it kept giving me runtime error 200.

Is there any way I can hotflash? And if my board will not post is it not possible to flash with bootblock?

With Uniflash, you need to chiplist and use the -FORCE XXXX switch. Uniflash will put something on the chip for you if it is supported. But still this may not work if the chips are formatted or sectored differently.

I just had a similar problem.

Thanks,

Miki.