Old BIOS to replace trashed chip?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:26 pm
Hi All,
I just managed to wreck my AMI BIOS...tried the floppy boot methods etc. but the floppy won't pick up. I have several older mobos with AMIs on but they're pentium based machines and my current is a socket A.
Any chance of my pulling one of the old chips putting it in the socket A board and using amiboot.rom method?
(Unless of course someone can shed light on the existing chip? Flashed from DOS not using floppy !!!DUH it was 2 am and I was clearly not thinking...at all! The system flashed ok then rebooted and does three beeps<which makes no sense. (done all the checks was fine before) The floppy was set to no boot seek before so I'm guessing that the BIOS is half wrecked and of course it won't initialize the floppy drive for me to try the amiboot method)
any help very much appreciated.....thanks
I just managed to wreck my AMI BIOS...tried the floppy boot methods etc. but the floppy won't pick up. I have several older mobos with AMIs on but they're pentium based machines and my current is a socket A.
Any chance of my pulling one of the old chips putting it in the socket A board and using amiboot.rom method?
(Unless of course someone can shed light on the existing chip? Flashed from DOS not using floppy !!!DUH it was 2 am and I was clearly not thinking...at all! The system flashed ok then rebooted and does three beeps<which makes no sense. (done all the checks was fine before) The floppy was set to no boot seek before so I'm guessing that the BIOS is half wrecked and of course it won't initialize the floppy drive for me to try the amiboot method)
any help very much appreciated.....thanks