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bios flash failure help!

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knutp

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I just tried updating the bios on a system with a asus p2b motherboard, and that didn't go well.

It refuses to boot.

To update the bios on another system, does it need to be almost the same type of motherboard, or does it work if the bios socket is the same? I got a asus k7v here as well, and would it work with that?
 


<< To update the bios on another system, does it need to be almost the same type of motherboard >>



Stop. It needs to *exactly* the motherboard the BIOS was designed for. There is no "close enough" in BIOS flashing. The BIOS on a retail board has to come direct from the manufacturer and be specific to the board. On an OEM board, the BIOS must come from the OEM, even if a update to the same model is available from the board manufacturer.
 
I tried a hotflash now, but that didn't work either. After the flash was completed it came up with some unexpected result. And it still refuses to boot. So I would guess that the chip itself is damaged.
 
So far as I know, Any Hui is correct- it's the type of chip, not the board it's on or the type of file. The only time I've ever had any trouble hotflashing was using a board with ami bios trying to hotflash a chip to an award bios- even then, I got it to work using a special flash utility from MSI.

Try downloading the file and utility again, set it up on a new boot disk, boot to that disk on the k7v board, switch the chips, flash away. Shut down, restore the original chip to the k7v, try the flashed chip in the p2b. I like to superglue small blocks of wood to the chips for handles. Be very sure that the chips are identical, and that they're properly oriented......

Flashing is either a cakewalk or a nightmare, depending on how it turns out. Use the link Bacillus gave you if it won't work out....
 
Yeah, sorry... long day at work or something. Didn't really get that he was hotflashing. Thought he was trying to flash a board's BIOS with a different .bin for long-term use. My bad.
 
I got my hand of another bios chip, and hotflashed that from the k7v. And that worked great. So it seems like the old chip is damaged...
 
Glad to see that you've been successful! Flashbios chips only have so many erase/write cycles in 'em, sometimes that's none at all....

Your old chip is a little small for a keychain fob....
 
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