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I have a motherboard L7VMM3(3.0c) from a friend , He flashes the wrong bios.
Now I try to reflash on a another working board with a VIA chipset , (MSI 6340 with a amibios) I do this with the original Flash program off Elite group AMINF341 and the original bios. When i do this , I have a error in Bios tag nr 9 , I can now proceed or cancel . When I do proceed , the flash is a succes but , the chip won't work on the L7VMM3 motherboard.
When I Do this with UNIFLASH , the bios flash works fine .
But no results if I replace it on the dead motherboard L7VMM3 .
What can I do next !

You did Uniflash "with bootblock" ?

Hello NickS,
Yes I used UNIFLASH with bootblock ? Did I have something wrong !

No, that's good. Did you clear CMOS?

Yes , I did everything ,clear mos to . nothing works .But I have a question , when you start with the flash program (every flash program)
He read the chipset !!!
So the chipset of the L7VMM3 is a VIA KM266 Pro , the motherboard that I used fot the Hotflash it's 6340(msi) with chipset KT166 with a Amibios (it's a Packard Bell mobo) , maybe is there something wrong ! Both bioschips are 5V .
What can I do next !

lucske74 wrote:the motherboard that I used fot the Hotflash it's 6340(msi) with chipset KT166 with a Amibios (it's a Packard Bell mobo) , maybe is there something wrong ! Both bioschips are 5V .
What can I do next !

It's a Packard Bell, so it's a Florida motherboard (MS-6340):
A6340P2 V1.5B1 12112001
62-1211-000000-00101111-071595-KT133-1AAHI006
http://support.packardbell.com/se/mypc/ ... nnect#show

As long as the chip was flashed OK, the chipset should not matter.
I wold look carefully at the board ID. The only BIOS at ECS for L7VMM3 that I can see is for 1.0c; if the board is marked 3.0c like you said, you probably need a different BIOS.

NickS wrote:The only BIOS at ECS for L7VMM3 that I can see is for 1.0c; if the board is marked 3.0c like you said, you probably need a different BIOS.

Here is it:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloads/ ... 43&LanID=0

L7VMM3 Release 06/17/2004
62-0617-001131-00101111-040201-VIA_K7-L7VMM3

I take the bios for the L7VMM3(3.0C) = E040617S that I found on the ECS site , this stay to on the label of the bios chip.
What should I do now !

lucske74 wrote:I take the bios for the L7VMM3(3.0C) = E040617S that I found on the ECS site , this stay to on the label of the bios chip.
What should I do now !

If the label says E040617S, then is the same BIOS.

I try it , biosflash succesfully , but it's not work !!
He stays Mostly on D3 with the postcard , but sometimes on DD !!
I used a AMD Thorenbread processor and also a Duron processor they works fine on a 6340 msi motherbord , maybe must I used AMD XP processor .The manual says that this board works with AMD , DURON en AMD XP processors !

Do you know what these codes mean for your board?
I am beginning to think that the BIOS update may be a coincidence, and that your board may have another problem
.
If the codes are around memory testing, maybe you disturbed the RAM while you were in the case? I would go back to starting with no peripherals or cables and a single stick of RAM. Then try a replacement PSU....

Check these things that have happened to me:
- nothing dropped into one of the slots that could be shorting the bus, or bent contacts shorting to the other side of the bus
- no screws trapped under the motherboard making a short to the case

First off all , I tested the motherboard out the case , only with a single DDR 256 mb , and diskdrive ( no HD) keyboard and mouse .
I used also the video onboard or a video card , but it's te seem , no screen. The postcard start with C0 , DD , D3 there it's stops .
Fo Ami bios : DD stays for Transfer control to un-compressed code in shadow ram at F000:FFF0
D3 stay's for DMA controller#1,#2, interupt controller#1#2 disable , video display is disable and port-B is initialized . Chipset initialize/auto memory detection about to begin.
This is what the results of the postcard says . I don't know of the codes matches with this board !
So what can I futher do !

It is strange that the BIOS seems correct but it hangs at initialising the chipset. Other than checking for bent pins and short circuits I have no further suggestions for resurrecting this board.

You are right , the bios chip is defect , but the flash program says , succesfully flashed ?? But I try it again with the now working K7VMM , see topic above. But the biosflash have no results.
So I look for this board to for a Amibios chip .