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hi!

I fried two k6 socket7 motherboards in a row by flashing them, and I was wondering if anyone could help me in a way or another.

One MB is a shuttle 591p, with a award bios. the mb beeped all the time and would not boot, but when I plugged in a ISA floppy controller it would scan the disk and them beep differently. it was looking for a bios, I thought, so I created a boot disk, with the awdflash, the bios for this MB (from the manufacturer's site) and a autoexec.bat. the disk was read, and from the noises it made it booted and ran the autoexec file but after that, it never booted again. no beeps, no floppy accesses, nothing... I didn't use a isa videocard. could be something on the screen to do next I was unable to see?

Another MB is a PCChips m560 (AMI bios). It worked almost fine, but the bios would not keep it's settings, so on every boot I had to set them all. A dead battery, I thought, so I swapped the RTC (one of those with clock and battery in one block, a via vt82887 chip), but it did the same again. I had flashed this board previously so I reflashed again to check if the prolem would go again. It never booted again, and made a lot of beeps at power-on. From reading wimsbios.com, I renamed the original bios to AMIBOOT.ROM and rebooted.. the board booted from floppy, did the 4 beeps at the end, and once again, it never booted again. No beeps, nothing on the screen.

I must have done something wrong, or must have missed something, twice... is any help available?

I searched for the schematics for a bios programmer on the net but none is available. apart from ordering a new bios from badflash or hotswapping, can I burn the eeproms myself? one is a atmel at29c010a.

thanks in advance for any (deeply appreciated) help.
pedro

Pedro,

It would seem that the problems you encounter could relate to other hardware, resulting in the beeps. The continuous beep, as far as i know, relates to a faulty processor - I would check out your existing hardware before any further BIOS flashing - making sure that this all works first.

If the boards were new - send em back!!

Also is your power supply ok? - fluctuations in this can be the cause of many problems.

regards

first of all, thanks for your reply.

the power supply and the processor are ok, but I'll try on another PSU/processor.

the beep in question is something like beep.... beep.... beep... about two seconds of silence between each beep, as if the MB reboots every two seconds...

as this is an award bios, there is not much reference for this kind of behaviour...

pdero

Pedro,

Does your beeping fit any of the following?

1long, 2 short Video adapter error Either video adapter is bad or is not seated properly. Also, check to ensure the monitor cable is connected properly.

Repeating (endless loop) Memory error Check for improperly seated or missing memory.

1long, 3short No video card or bad video RAM Reseat or replace the video card.

High frequency beeeps while running Overheated CPU Check the CPU fan for proper operation. Check the case for proper air flow.

Repeating High/Low CPU Either the CPU is not seated properly or the CPU is damaged.

Regards