GA BX 2000+ wont boot past DMI
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:40 am
Hi guys ,
I have been avidly reading the threads regarding Bios repairs but none seem to quite answer my query.heres the situation:-
I purchased some M/boards in a job lot one of which was a gigabyte gbax200+ .I have a slocket converter that I know works and a spare 800 eb
coppermine and thought I,d knock up a simple printer server. Well I assembled a barebones i.e.
1 stick of memory
1 pci vga card
1 working slot 1 pentium 11
1 1.44mb floppy (good)
1 keyboard
and tried to boot.
It gets as far as dmi verify O.K. and stops .
I can operate the Bios selection screen and Ive had it recognise a hard drive but removed it again for simplicity.
The dual bios facility seems to be working as I can tell it to copy Bios A to B etc but all to no avail .
There is a slight difference in the 2 Bioses as one searches for the optional at66 drives but the end result is still a freeze @ DMI...... ok
If I select floppy drive seek @ boot in the Advanced page it does its little dance so I think the driver chip is ok.
Am I right in thinking that award bioses require the dos prompt unlike Ami Bioses which can address the floppy at an earlier stage? I ask this because the web site uses an exe file to update this bios and of course with no floppy (no dos prompt ) its useless.
Any chance?
WILT
I have been avidly reading the threads regarding Bios repairs but none seem to quite answer my query.heres the situation:-
I purchased some M/boards in a job lot one of which was a gigabyte gbax200+ .I have a slocket converter that I know works and a spare 800 eb
coppermine and thought I,d knock up a simple printer server. Well I assembled a barebones i.e.
1 stick of memory
1 pci vga card
1 working slot 1 pentium 11
1 1.44mb floppy (good)
1 keyboard
and tried to boot.
It gets as far as dmi verify O.K. and stops .
I can operate the Bios selection screen and Ive had it recognise a hard drive but removed it again for simplicity.
The dual bios facility seems to be working as I can tell it to copy Bios A to B etc but all to no avail .
There is a slight difference in the 2 Bioses as one searches for the optional at66 drives but the end result is still a freeze @ DMI...... ok
If I select floppy drive seek @ boot in the Advanced page it does its little dance so I think the driver chip is ok.
Am I right in thinking that award bioses require the dos prompt unlike Ami Bioses which can address the floppy at an earlier stage? I ask this because the web site uses an exe file to update this bios and of course with no floppy (no dos prompt ) its useless.
Any chance?
WILT