Neither BootBlock nor Hot-Swap works...
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:29 pm
Hello to all,
You are my only hope to the following problem…
I made a successful Tualatin 1,1A Celeron mod to my Abit BE6-II.
However, the BIOS startup screen, detect the processor as Pentium II 333Mhz (although in Windows XP all was OK). I supposed that running BIOS Patcher will add the extra microcodes in my BIOS. So, I patched the latest BIOS (version 70). While flashing with awdflash 7.97D I get some ‘write fail’. However, I reset my system and I came up with BootBlock v.1.0 .
I had video(AGP) and floppy so I tried to flash to the original BIOS v.70 with awdflash 7.97D. I had flash the BIOS many times before with this version(After changing my epa logo or after changing the onboard UDMA66 version) without any problems. This time awdflash 7.97D couldn’t detect my chip: unknown flash type. The same with awdflash 8.23F and 8.59E (Sometimes I got the message:’ …update ROM BIOS first’, when I used other BIOS versions). Uniflash 1.40 couldn’t detect my chip, too. Then I used awdflash 7.52C (the one that came with my motherboard’s cd). This version worked only with BIOS first release, v.NP. It flashed with a lot of “write fail” , about 80%. After restart ,no video! I changed AGP to ISA adapter. Video again!
Now Uniflash detects my chip! I flashed the previous BIOS(v.NP) with only one red square but 4 green x’s at verification. BootBlock again. I reprogrammed with awdflash 7.52C the same BIOS version and I get very less errors than first time! 7%! I tried other BIOS versions with Uniflash, all without success.
I hot-swap with a motherboard with VIA Pro chipset (mine is 440BX) the same again: Uniflash flashes and fails. Various versions of awdflash and BIOSes, sometimes fails other times error messages: (“unknown flash type”,”…update Rom BIOS first”)
I am an electronic specialist. I can’t explain this problem. I think that it’s very difficult to have damage my chip only by flashing with BIOS patcher. I think the chip is good and something is going wrong with the flash…
Is my BootBlock corrupted so it can’t read 100% right from the floppy?
Do I have to hot-swap with another board? (same chipset)
Do I have to use the right combination? (awdflash and BIOS)
Do I make something wrong?
Is the chip itself damaged? (how and why?)
I ‘m not a lamer…I have help many people either on forums or in my life…You are my only hope… I want to explain the situation… It’s unbelievable…
Thank you,
You are my only hope to the following problem…
I made a successful Tualatin 1,1A Celeron mod to my Abit BE6-II.
However, the BIOS startup screen, detect the processor as Pentium II 333Mhz (although in Windows XP all was OK). I supposed that running BIOS Patcher will add the extra microcodes in my BIOS. So, I patched the latest BIOS (version 70). While flashing with awdflash 7.97D I get some ‘write fail’. However, I reset my system and I came up with BootBlock v.1.0 .
I had video(AGP) and floppy so I tried to flash to the original BIOS v.70 with awdflash 7.97D. I had flash the BIOS many times before with this version(After changing my epa logo or after changing the onboard UDMA66 version) without any problems. This time awdflash 7.97D couldn’t detect my chip: unknown flash type. The same with awdflash 8.23F and 8.59E (Sometimes I got the message:’ …update ROM BIOS first’, when I used other BIOS versions). Uniflash 1.40 couldn’t detect my chip, too. Then I used awdflash 7.52C (the one that came with my motherboard’s cd). This version worked only with BIOS first release, v.NP. It flashed with a lot of “write fail” , about 80%. After restart ,no video! I changed AGP to ISA adapter. Video again!
Now Uniflash detects my chip! I flashed the previous BIOS(v.NP) with only one red square but 4 green x’s at verification. BootBlock again. I reprogrammed with awdflash 7.52C the same BIOS version and I get very less errors than first time! 7%! I tried other BIOS versions with Uniflash, all without success.
I hot-swap with a motherboard with VIA Pro chipset (mine is 440BX) the same again: Uniflash flashes and fails. Various versions of awdflash and BIOSes, sometimes fails other times error messages: (“unknown flash type”,”…update Rom BIOS first”)
I am an electronic specialist. I can’t explain this problem. I think that it’s very difficult to have damage my chip only by flashing with BIOS patcher. I think the chip is good and something is going wrong with the flash…
Is my BootBlock corrupted so it can’t read 100% right from the floppy?
Do I have to hot-swap with another board? (same chipset)
Do I have to use the right combination? (awdflash and BIOS)
Do I make something wrong?
Is the chip itself damaged? (how and why?)
I ‘m not a lamer…I have help many people either on forums or in my life…You are my only hope… I want to explain the situation… It’s unbelievable…
Thank you,