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MS-7204 (Medion) -- Solved
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:15 am
by Dima_2005
My pc was tuck when I was flashing my mobo...
Now I'm getting some Award Bootblock BIOS...
I've got a floppy drive+floppy disk, but what I need to put on that floppy? I already tried a lot of things
Solution: I used a defect floppy drive
Re: MS-7204 (Medion) -- Solved
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:37 pm
by Bikermouse
Dima_2005 wrote:My pc was tuck when I was flashing my mobo...
Now I'm getting some Award Bootblock BIOS...
I've got a floppy drive+floppy disk, but what I need to put on that floppy? I already tried a lot of things
Solution: I used a defect floppy drive
He I have exactly the same problem and motherboard, but the system keeps trying to read the floppy drive without succes. It stays in de bootblock.
I've used a bootable DOS-floppy with an autoexec to perform the flash but it doesn't start up. Also renaming the flash image to *.bin *.ROM doesn't work.
I've also changed the floppy drive to a new one with the same result.
What have you put on your floppy?
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:44 am
by Energumen
bump...
I am having the same problem. (bootblock wont initalize DOS)
if anyone can give specific info on how to get the boot block to recognise DOS, it would be much appreciated. I've tried freedos and ibmdos, both with no success, any advice appreciated.
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:12 am
by Bikermouse
Energumen wrote:bump...
I am having the same problem. (bootblock wont initalize DOS)
if anyone can give specific info on how to get the boot block to recognise DOS, it would be much appreciated. I've tried freedos and ibmdos, both with no success, any advice appreciated.
I still haven't solved it, so if you find the answer please post it here!
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:18 am
by Energumen
Well, everyone likes error messages, so I'll start there:
Detecting floppy drive A media...
Drive media is 1.44 mb
Starting Caldera DR-DOS
Can't load BDOS kernel file: A:\ibmdos.com
System Halted.
cry
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Bikermouse,
Does your bios fast boot by dumping the bios image into the RAM? My freshly dead MSI board does that, and I think it might be the culprit. If i try to start the computer with just the floppy drive and the ram sticks removed... nada, not even the good ol' BIOS ROM checksum error. it just searches for the ram, restarts, searches again... loops till i turn it off.
msi 975x v2 board
award bios
Energumen
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:58 pm
by Bikermouse
Nope my PC doesn't even get that far, it just keeps searching the floppy, no error messages... I haven't removed the RAM yet. Could it be a RAM-problem?
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:37 am
by Energumen
well, if you have an AMI bios, i belive it won't show anything on screen. Beyond that I can't give much advice, I don't know much about AMI bios. Think I'm just going to order a new chip, or hotflash if i get real feisty.
