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I have a compaq presario with an asus a7n8x-la motherboard. I had recently updated to the bios version 3.21 available on the HP website. Overall, it was working ok, but after reading that 3.07 was better on another message board I tried to rollback, hoping this might solve some problems I'd been having. Going to 3.07 made sense since the sticker on the chip says "Explorer2 V. 3.07". Well, now I can't boot up. Everything seems to be getting power—the cd drives open and shut and all the fans are spinning—but the green and orange lights on the front aren't showing the normal bootup flickering pattern. Usually the green light disappears after a second. And the monitor isn't getting a signal.

I already tried removing the battery as well as the chip for several hours, so far to no avail. Since it's an AMI chip, the best solution would seem to be to put the 3.21 bios on a floppy under the name amiboot.rom and go from there, but of course it's only available from HP as an executable.

Hopefully someone can figure out where I went wrong. If you can do that or supply me with the actual bios file, I'll be in your debt. Sorry if this isn't in the right forum, btw.

volta wrote:I have a compaq presario with an asus a7n8x-la motherboard.
Hopefully someone can figure out where I went wrong. If you can do that or supply me with the actual bios file, I'll be in your debt. Sorry if this isn't in the right forum, btw.

Download your 3.21 rom here..

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately it didn't work. I unzipped the file, renamed it to amiboot.rom and put it on a blank floppy. I tried the recovery routine, but it appeared that the floppy drive wasn't even getting read (and yes I pressed ctrl+home to try and force it to read). Well this sucks. I guess I'll have to order a new chip.