BIOS update help

[celery550]

I'm trying to flash the BIOS on a ECS K7S5A, boot from floppy, try to run ami818.exe, tells me
chipset/flash part isn't available. the function will be invalid

any help, please?

thanks
scott

 

[bacillus]

hmm, perhaps you have a setting in bios which allows bios update but it's presently set to disable!

 

[celery550]

well I looked once

I will look again

any other suggestions?
thanks
scott

 

[stonecold3169]

I had a MB with an AMI BIOS once, got the same message, went back in, turned off the bios cache, and it worked... also, unlike some flashers, I couldn;t get it to run without specifying the name of the rom at the command prompt, seperated by a space of course.

 

[celery550]

ok
I looked in BIOS for something to disable or enable, nothing there
I tried entering the .rom file name after the ami.exe, with a space, and nothing, well actually I got the same errror.

I shall try the disable BIOS cache
thanks
and keep the ideas coming
scott

 

[celery550]

ok
I figured it out
had to get a different flash.exe
and run from hard drive
worked so well, I flashed 4 different bios's until I got the one I wanted

thanks for the tips
scott