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Dead MB - Biostar M5ALA rev. 1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 2:56 am
by Scottsin
I am trying to boot from a: to flash the bios using AWDFLASH, but every boot disk I try doesn't work. The furthest I can get is by using a utility disk (Maxblast) using Caldera DR-DOS, but this fails giving me an error of "Can't load BDOS Kernel file A:\IBMDOS.COM - System Halted"

Even with a boot disk from DOS 6.22, It will give me an error that the disk is not bootable..

Are there any other options?

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 10:39 am
by ajzchips
Looks like faulty RAM to me.

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 7:10 pm
by Scottsin
Nope, not bad ram.. I swapped the current 128MB for another known good one, and no difference..

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 7:15 pm
by ajzchips
a) faulty L2 cache?
b) CPU overheating/improper cooling?
c) PSU defective?
d) VRM defective?

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 7:27 pm
by Rainbow
e) Bad floppy drive?