Bios nightmare

[2Bullish]

I need some help methinks.

Decided to flash the bios last night. Half way through the system froze. Holy shnit I think. And I was right. All I get now is:

BIOS ROM checksum

Detecting floppy disk drive A: media

Drive media is : 1.44MB

Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key.

What do I do to restore the bios???

KT7r
was UL bios tried to install WZ
98se

HELP

 

[Pederv]

Can you boot to the harddrive, command prompt only? If so try copying the bios files to the hard drive and install the bios from there.

 

[Slikkster]

Read your motherboard manual on how to clear your cmos (bios) on the board itself. It could by placing a jumper over two pins on the board, or it could be by shorting out the pins with something like a screwdriver, etc, if there's no jumper for it.

Can you get into the bios itself at boot up? (like hitting the DEL key to enter the setup, for example)

If all else fails, you might have to contact Abit and get a new EPROM chip for this motherboard to replace the bios that's hozed.

 

[2Bullish]

No it just goes straight to the screen as above.
The only way I can get into prompt is using a 98 startup disk.
But it throws a load of errors up i.e

xms no found
high mem not found
Path not found

command .com
extract.exe
readme.txt

Yikes I thinks its terminal

 

[2Bullish]

Bummer. It is the eprom chip I think, when I do get into awdflash, it tells me its not eprom bios.
Ahh well, gotta look on the brightside, now I can get the kT7A instead.

*now where did I put that checkbook"

 

[earthman]

"Clearing the BIOS" does not erase the PROM, it just clears the CMOS settings. What happens when you get a freeze or power off while flashing one of these is that the info in the PROM chip is scrambled and the results are unpredicatble, but usually not good.
Often, you need to replace the chip, or perhaps the board itself, if a chip isn't available.

 

[Winterkill]

I had a similar issue to yours. EXCEPT, I was dumb! I restarted Win98SE in DOS Mode and attempted to FLASH my BIOS on my K7TPro2A. Big mistake. System immediately rebooted during the flash process. Ahhh! I know better! Of course, EMM386 and HIMEM were running, so that is why it hosed up.

I had to replace the mobo. Oh well.

BTW, clearing the CMOS settings via jumper is USELESS in this kind of scenario.