939Dual - Is there a BIOS recovery method?

[richard612]

I just flashed the OCworkbench B2 BIOS into my 939Dual and turned it into a brick.

I read somewhere that the AMIBOOT.ROM trick does not work with Asrock boards. Sure enough, it never lights up the floppy.

Anything else I can try? I already cleared the CMOS..

 

[rsatat]

I am no expert but you can change the physical bios chip on some boards. If that is an option for you, then you should be set.

 

[Navid]

If you press the reset button and it fails to boot, press it again. After a few times, it should boot up with the default BIOS settings.
Of course, if it fails to boot after 10 resets, stop! Something is wrong!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: rsatat
I am no expert but you can change the physical bios chip on some boards. If that is an option for you, then you should be set.

Yeah, the chip does look replaceable, but I'm not sure where you'd get another one. Several years back when I was using an Abit NF7-S 2.0, somehow the BIOS erased itself one day or something and wouldn't boot again...I found a company selling pre-programmed BIOS chips for tons of different boards, was a lifesaver...I don't know that they're still around though.

Edit: And if it matters, if you DO somehow get your hands on another BIOS chip...at least with my old motherboard, you could hotswap the chips once the PC was running, so you could boot with the new one, then put in the old (nonworking/erased/whatever) chip once the computer's running, and flash that one so it'll work again and you'll have two...

 

[Old Hippie]

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