Damn.... I broke 2 mobos in 3 days - Can you help me fix em? :-D

[Ian Cunningham]

OK... I flashed the BIOS on my Soltek 75KV-X and 75KAV-X motherboards with the latest revision, but now, when I turn them on I get a beep from the PC speaker and then the PC turns itself off.

I've tried everything - got any ideas?

 

[Weyland]

Hmmmm. I've only heard stories of BIOS flash disasters. I've never had one, but when I flashed the BIOS on my VT-503+, I was warned of a few particular dangers. Here they are (for me):

1) Spell everything correctly. Use the proper case (as in capital letters). For example, my floppy (courtesy of format a: /s) contained the flash utility and the *.bin file. I typed this in:

flash73 je4331.bin /Py /Sy

I can't remember what /Py is for, but /Sy gives you the option of saving your old BIOS on the floppy.

2) When the flashing process begins, leave the computer sit. Even when there is no activity, let it sit. After a long while of nothing, I had to press either F10 to exit or F1 (or F2, can't remember) to reboot. After that, smooth sailing.

I guess my main question to you is, did you spell everything correctly, using proper case?

 

[DaddyG]

badflash.com will get you new BIOS chips at a reasonable price.

 

[jugornot]

Not familiar with those mb, but if they have a bootblock bios they may be saveable. In the earlier post I beleive the Py is program yes. If you make an autoexec.bat file correctly it will flash the bios without video. But I have not done that. However you can also recover the bios by stripping the mb down to an old non-accelerated isa vga card and floppy and keyboard. No hd no mouse no sound card nothing else. The mb will recognise this as a boot block recovery situaton and will boot off of the floppy (once you make it bootable (sys a) Then flash the bios following on screen directions. Yep I've used this a few times. Only once did it fail and that mb was and is still dead. HTH