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ms-5187 mboard dead

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:52 am
by rp16
hi all!
need your help.
my mboard is ms-5187 and trying to flash its bios on ms-5169 but unsuccessful.tried uniflash and hotswap,detected my bios but fails and returns the message 'verifying error'.my corrupted chip is w29c020c-90b.
are there other ways i can bring this board to life or its hopeless.please help me. :cry:
thanks!

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:47 pm
by Ritchie
If the BIOS appears to attempt a boot from the floppy drive you can carefully setup a floppy disk with the correct BIOS image that will boot and run through the flash operation by itself.

Re: ms-5187 mboard dead

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:26 pm
by NickS
rp16 wrote:hi all!
need your help.
my mboard is ms-5187 and trying to flash its bios on ms-5169 but unsuccessful.tried uniflash and hotswap,detected my bios but fails and returns the message 'verifying error'.my corrupted chip is w29c020c-90b.
are there other ways i can bring this board to life or its hopeless.please help me. :cry:
thanks!
It is possible that your chip is faulty. Can you find a replacement 2Mbit BIOS chip ?