Hot Flash Problems - Im running out of options..
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:15 am
I just bought a pcchips board ( P21G rev V1.0), accidently flashed it with a rev 3.1 bios, and killed my system.. I have been trying a ton of things to get this back together without having to go through badflash or some other company (i cant afford it right now :-p thats why i have a pcchips).
- I tried using the bootblock method, but when I turn on my computer, it does not access the floppy drive.
- My bios chip is a AT49LH004 Atmel chip. its a 4mbit chip with 3.3 volts.
I've been trying to hot flash this thing with no luck.. and I do not understand why.
- I live in a dorm and found a friend with a asus A8V Deluxe motherboard with a Pm49FL004 bios which is 512kb (which I believe is a 4mbit chip too). I hot flashed the bios using uniflash and a cdrom boot disk with calerda dos on it, but the flash was unsuccessful.. this is what i noticed. When writing to the chip, the progress bar is all red (should it be green?) when it verifys what was written, it fails. I am using a read only drive while doing this, so keep that in mind (im not sure if thats the issue).
- I have tried all the different tags (-asus and -amiflash, and even tried sticking it into my SMC EZ card with a plcc socket and then trying to flash that... All with no luck.. I tried unlocking the chip, Ive tried flashing without the boot block and more... I have also tried asus's latest dos flash utitly with no luck and both windows and dos versions of ami flash utility.
- I do not understand what the problem is. Is it because I'm using two different motherboard types? Or is it because my bios is corrupt (there is a slight chance that I mat have damaged it somehow maybe)?
- I did not try flashing the Pm49FL004 bios with my motherboard's bios version in fear of messing up two computers; if I try this should it work? Maybe the asus motherboard cannot write to my bios chip correctly?
Im lost and need some more options... I will be trying to hot flash the bios on a shuttle mobo later tonight.. Ill let you know how that goes.
Thanks for any help!
- I tried using the bootblock method, but when I turn on my computer, it does not access the floppy drive.
- My bios chip is a AT49LH004 Atmel chip. its a 4mbit chip with 3.3 volts.
I've been trying to hot flash this thing with no luck.. and I do not understand why.
- I live in a dorm and found a friend with a asus A8V Deluxe motherboard with a Pm49FL004 bios which is 512kb (which I believe is a 4mbit chip too). I hot flashed the bios using uniflash and a cdrom boot disk with calerda dos on it, but the flash was unsuccessful.. this is what i noticed. When writing to the chip, the progress bar is all red (should it be green?) when it verifys what was written, it fails. I am using a read only drive while doing this, so keep that in mind (im not sure if thats the issue).
- I have tried all the different tags (-asus and -amiflash, and even tried sticking it into my SMC EZ card with a plcc socket and then trying to flash that... All with no luck.. I tried unlocking the chip, Ive tried flashing without the boot block and more... I have also tried asus's latest dos flash utitly with no luck and both windows and dos versions of ami flash utility.
- I do not understand what the problem is. Is it because I'm using two different motherboard types? Or is it because my bios is corrupt (there is a slight chance that I mat have damaged it somehow maybe)?
- I did not try flashing the Pm49FL004 bios with my motherboard's bios version in fear of messing up two computers; if I try this should it work? Maybe the asus motherboard cannot write to my bios chip correctly?
Im lost and need some more options... I will be trying to hot flash the bios on a shuttle mobo later tonight.. Ill let you know how that goes.
Thanks for any help!