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my pc is dead
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:58 pm
by tawfeek
i tried to update my bios using awdflash.exe i have got from
http://www.unicore.com/. during the installtion i was asked to enter a file path wich i didnt have and i just left it empty. since then my computer dosnt work, black screen and strange beeps one lone beep and two fast short.
my bois information are:
bios type:Award modular bios v4.51pg
bios date: 06/11/96
bios id: 6/11/96-i430vx-2a59gz19c-00
oem sign-on:5dvx ver:1.0 1/07/96
super i/o:vmg/itc 8669 rev 0 found at port 108h
chipeset intel triton 430vx rev2
os: ms win98se ver 4.10.2222a
cpu type p54c 132 mhz
bios rom in socket
memory installed 47mb
thaks for your help
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:30 pm
by ajzchips
Use this BIOS here:
http://mobokive.dyndns.org/Archive/Zida/bios/5dvx/
...to revive your system, but read our recovery techniques first.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:06 pm
by tawfeek
hi again
here is what i have done and im still having the same symptoms
1. bootable DOS diskette image from
www.abitfaq.it/Files/drdflash.exe .
2.Use this BIOS
http://mobokive.dyndns.org/Archive/Zida/bios/5dvx/ .
3.wrote an autoexec.bat file
@echo off
cls
awdflash 5DVX_19U.bin
but still having the same problem, black screen , one long beep followed by two short.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:51 pm
by ajzchips
Should have added the /Py /Sn switches to the command line.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:53 am
by tawfeek
still the same
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:44 am
by Rainbow
Does it really boot from the floppy? Try UniFlash: "uniflash -e 5dvx_19u.bin".
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:35 pm
by tawfeek
im sure that its really boot from the floppy, i tried to use uuniflash -e 5dvx_19u.bin commad and i heard a contiues beep. and nothing moves.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 4:50 pm
by KachiWachi
Probably not the best place to ask this (pardons to the thread author), but I've seen this here before...someone doesn't put in a filename to flash, and the board is dead after AWDFLASH exits. What gives here? Is AWDFLASH actually doing something then and not quitting gracefully, thus destroying the currently installed BIOS??
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:28 pm
by soupy
Could be it doesn't validate the file name before it wipes the current BIOS?
