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BIOS flash failed

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roddo

Junior Member
Hi guys,

I bought the above motherboard a couple of weeks back for a new system I'm building, and all went well till I tried to flash with the latest BIOS hehe. The flash went fine, no problems there, done it many times before on previously build PCs. Went to restart, no display - though system powers up and keyboard lights up.

The motherboard has an LCD display with error codes - it is currently displaying 29 which - quote from manual - does:

Initialise video interface - Read CMOS location 14h to find out video in use. Detect and initialise video adapter.

Now, the question is, is this BIOS bad? Has the flashed failed? Or has this somehow affected my video card, a nice new 7800GT? Anyone else has success with the latest BIOS?

Any help would be much appreciated
 
When resetting CMOS, did you exactly follow the instructions for doing so in your motherboard manufacturers owners' manual ?

 
Yep, disconnected batter, power and press power on to fully discharge any remaing power in the mother board.

I'm chasing the motherboard manufacturer for a replacement BIOS...
 
Off hand i dont remember but i know if you do a search on this forum by me again youll find it:

You can take a floppy, put the bios flash file, bios file, and autoexec.exe on a floppy and can boot it so taht it flashes itself without any user interaction. It has saved my butt before. I will try to find it as well if i have time.
 
Found it:


Edit the autoexec.bat file to say this:

awdflash.exe biosfile.bin /py /sy /cc /cp /cd /sb /r


change the file names of course but the switches stay teh same.
 
Already tried that, but won't even post or read the floppy disc.

I've bitten the bullet and ordered a replacement BIOS from recoverybios.com.

That's again for all your help🙂
 
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