BIOS Updates forum

This boards an oldie, but is one of my backup PC's on my LAN. I updated the BIOS myself years ago with AWDFLASH util No Problem. Yesterday, after I plugged in a bad CD ROM Drive, the thing Locked up, and lost the BIOS.

On Powerup, I get 1 Long, then 2 short beeps & the Floppy A: seems to look for a disk, and then makes 2 low toned beeps, and stops spinning.
I have experience restoring Wiped BIOS on an Intel PII AL440LX board, which was accomplished by downloading some stuff from INTEL.COM, onto a floppy, then putting the Disk in when powerd up. So I am pretty sure this is the same situation here, only I cant find the Utility I need at ABIT.COM. I did find some of the BIOS 'bin' files at FAE.ABIT, and the only reference thay give to restoring the bad BIOS is to have another known good board, which I do not have.

I also read here at this site, that there is a BOOT Block method which sounds like what I am trying to accomplish, but when I put the Disk with autoexec.bat containing the awdflash *.bin , the disk dont seem to load. I'm guessing this is because we have no DOS prompt or BIOS to execute anything. The BIOS chip itself is an AWARD BIOS. Any input appreciated.

Use ISA VGA card to see what error does it display. Read the FAQ at main page here.

I no longer own an ISA Vid Card.

I read some of the FAQ, and it seems you can take the BIOS chip out, and insert it into another board which also supports Uniflash or AWDFLASH.

From what I understand, you boot the good board (any Award Bios Supported board with same socket?) up normally to the DOS Prompt, take out its BIOS Chip from the socket, install the wiped chip in place, then Flash with the utility.

Question is will this work with any Board that takes an AWARD bios Chip of the same package type?

Rainbow wrote:Use ISA VGA card to see what error does it display. Read the FAQ at main page here.

You can use any board that has the same Flash ROM chip socket. Does not matter if it's Award, AMI or Phoenix.
http://rainbow.ht.st/hardware/hotflash.html