BulletProof DualBios?
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:10 pm
Hello,
I have flashed wrong bios (6cx instead of 6cxc) on gigabyte 6cxc mb and it is dead now. No recovery is working, floppy is dead and my amiboot.rom file waiting for the green ligh to start lit.
But it has a dual boot option, but socket for second bios was empty. I discovered original bios chip is Intel 82802AB 4Mbit FWH and started researach. Unfotunately I'm not able to find anyone who can get the chip here in Czech Rep. I found there are other chips compatible with intel like SST, or PMC 49fl004T, etc.
I noticed I have this PMC chip on my other Asus A7N8X mb so I decided to use it for recovery.
So now I have old PIII gigabyte working booting from second bios with correct code BUT I"M NOT ABLE TO TRANSFER THE CODE BACK TO ORIGINAL Intel chip which is on the mb (not in the socket but directly on mb).
During POST pressing F1 to enter dual bios menu halts the system before entering menu, so I can not copy code between the two chips.
IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE FOR COPYING DATA BETWEEN DUAL BIOS CHIPS?
I've also tryied to hot remove the chip after succesfull booting into dos and then trying to flash, but all flash programs are not able to switch from boot chip to the other one.
tanks a lot for any help
I have flashed wrong bios (6cx instead of 6cxc) on gigabyte 6cxc mb and it is dead now. No recovery is working, floppy is dead and my amiboot.rom file waiting for the green ligh to start lit.
But it has a dual boot option, but socket for second bios was empty. I discovered original bios chip is Intel 82802AB 4Mbit FWH and started researach. Unfotunately I'm not able to find anyone who can get the chip here in Czech Rep. I found there are other chips compatible with intel like SST, or PMC 49fl004T, etc.
I noticed I have this PMC chip on my other Asus A7N8X mb so I decided to use it for recovery.
So now I have old PIII gigabyte working booting from second bios with correct code BUT I"M NOT ABLE TO TRANSFER THE CODE BACK TO ORIGINAL Intel chip which is on the mb (not in the socket but directly on mb).
During POST pressing F1 to enter dual bios menu halts the system before entering menu, so I can not copy code between the two chips.
IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE FOR COPYING DATA BETWEEN DUAL BIOS CHIPS?
I've also tryied to hot remove the chip after succesfull booting into dos and then trying to flash, but all flash programs are not able to switch from boot chip to the other one.
tanks a lot for any help