Bios Flash Failure Abit BH6

[emjem]

Darn, I was flashing this old bh6 mobo bios and the flash failed at clear cmos. Now the system won't post.

Is this mobo now junk or is there a cheap solution?

 

[bacillus]

if you can find a similiar m/board then you can try hot swapping the bios chips for a hot flash!

 

[vailr]

Abit office in California can sell the bios chip for about $10. phone #510-623-0500.
Another source is www.badflash.com

 

[grrl]

I've had good luck with www.badflash.com also.

 

[Netopia]

Try removing everything from the motherboard except for a PCI video card and your floppy and try to boot again. I've resurrected several Abit boards this way when a flash has gone wrong.

If that doesn't work, try holding down the insert key and then turning the system on... this resets the CMOS for one boot on Abit boards and it will sometimes work also. Just FYI... I have yet to have a "bad flash" in any Abit board that was unrecoverable.

Let us know how it goes!

Joe

 

[GR8Madmax]

Did you make sure you had the right bios for your board? There are two
different bios releases for the BH6 boards. One for the older rev1.0x series and the second one for rev1.1. You can find the revision info under the last(2nd) ISA slot.

I recently flashed my 1.0x BH6 using the SS (latest) bios and had no problems.

 

[emjem]

Tried a trick or two Netopia, looks like the bios is wiped out.

Thanx for the phone number vailr -- I won't deal with Abit unless it's my last hope.

I'm looking into sending it to Badflash to be reprogrammed. It would make me cry to trash an otherwise good BX mobo. Probably Intel's best ever effort!

Thanx all.

 

[zzzz]

There was a post a week before here that described how a guy revived his bios by flashing in a different board. search and see if you can find it. You need to have an additional mobo, not neccesarily the same model, but with the same type of bios chip..( I think it is award one on Abit)

 

[Slacker]

Send your bios chip to me with a return package postage paid and I will flash it for you in a bh6 computer I have 😀

If you want to try hot flashing the chip you need a working computer with the same type of bios chip/socket and a program called uniflash, you boot the computer to a floppy with uniflash and the bios on it then pull the good chip and insert the bad chip and run the flash program.

Check with a local computer shop (not bestbuy/compusa) and find one that has an eprom programer, bring them the chip and a floppy with the bios on it and they will fix you up.

 

[Jeff H]

emjem, did you every get your BH6 working? If not, try this - make a bootable floppy w/ the awdflash.exe and latest bin file on it. Create an autoexec.bat file on the floppy w/ this command: awdflash.exe bh6_ss.bin /py /sn /cd /cp /cc

Start your machine and it should flash the BIOS. You'll know when it's done when the light on the floppy drive isn't lit for a period of time. I just did this on a BH6 board of my brother in law's that seemed to have a bad flash. I was able to resurrect the board doing the above.