bios "hotflashing" question...

[MaxImuMAdVaNtAgE]

my computer froze while flashing my bios and someone here suggested i hotflash my bios. i never heard of that and asked about it, and to do this you boot a computer with solid bios and swap the bios chip so you can try to flash it from that computer. it seems to me (damn i hope i'm not just slow! 🙂 ) that if the pins on the bios chips match i could use any motherboard with any bios to flash my bad chip with the proper utility and bios file. nobody i know has an msi k7tpro2a, but does that really matter? i have 3 or 4 computers so why couldn't this work?

another predicament is that my computer runs perfectly even though my flash stopped so i don't want to make the situation worse. on the other hand, where is the satisfaction of just going to badflash.com?!?!?!

MaxImuM

 

[tcsenter]

All of the sources I have seen stated it must be the same model motherboard.

 

[Ne0]

I had a ECS K7VZA and hotflashed it with a K7VZM which seems to be the exact same board except its in Micro-ATX format. It worked too, however the K7VZM bios pins broke off in the removal from the K7VZA 🙁

 

[MatthewAshton]

Using UNIFLASH from : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvanleeuwen/ufhome.htm

I succesfully hot flashed my FIC VL601's bios in a Compac (Digital) TX based chipset motherboard (DOS boot then remove the working bios replacing it with the dud one). It doesn't seem to matter what motherboard you use so long as it will accept the type of bios you need to flash.

The readme file that comes with the UNIFLASH program gives details of the motherboards it was tested with. The program will ignore the normal bios error messages that AWDFLASH gets stuck on.