BIOS Updates forum

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:27 am**

Hi guys, hope you can help me out with this one!
I flashed my bios on my
GA-7N400-L motherboards, it seemed to work fine however when i rebooted i got the following error,
Award Bootlock V1.0
Copyright (c) 200, award software, inc

Scanning Bios image in hard drive

Bios auto recovering...... (endless full stops fill screen)
The system will not read from the floppy drive and if a different harddrive is connected to the system the message reads;
Award Bootlock V1.0
Copyright (c) 200, award software, inc

Scanning Bios image in hard drive

Can not find BIOS image in hard drive or diskette.

How am i ging to solve this little problem? please help.

Note - i have read the FAQ sections, however even with Ctrl + Home is pressed the system will not read from the floppy drive, so i can not use the award bios flash utility.

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:27 pm**

I was going to suggest hot-flashing, then I saw you have a Gigabyte board - so your BIOS chip is soldered to the board, I believe.
Is the board still in warranty ?

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:57 pm**

yeah, it is only a few weeks old. What way do you suggest i 'ask' for a new one,
* tell the whole truth - ie i tried to flash DID THE RIGHT THINGS, but got this unfixable problem OR
* Act like i don't really know what happened, just turned it on one day and no go?