Epox 8K7A 7.05 BIOS Flash Gone Bad, PLEASE HELP!

[Playmaker]

I downloaded the Epox 8K7A 7.05 BIOS from the amdmb.com web site. I then put it on a blank floppy and restarted with the disk in the drive. At the prompt I hit alt+f2 and entered the BIOS flash. The bar filled up like it always does during a BIOS flash, but then the screen went black. I waited for about 5min and nothing happened, so I removed the disk and hit restart. Everytime I boot up it just stays black and nothing happens, no BIOS, no nothing. The 2 number LED on the motherboard gets into the 20s during the boot up, and then stops at the number 2 in the first LED and backward 6 in the second LED. I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks.

 

[Pabster]

Heh, don't fret. I had the same "issue" when I flashed it this morning. What you must do is short CCMOS1 and clear CMOS. Short the pins for a bit, put them back to 1-2 (normal). You should be able to boot now.

 

[formulav8]

Turn off the comp and clear the cmos. If that doesn't do anything you might need to hot flash it or call epox for a new bios chip.

 

[rubberneck]

Try turning off and reseting the CMOS via the jumper. In the future, I suggest booting with a floppy then running the bios flash. Also if your MB has a bios flash jumper, you will want to set it to enable flashing...then set it back when finished.

 

[Playmaker]

Ok. I was hoping I wouldn't have to clear, but looks like I will. I've flashed before using the same process, so I was at a loss to figure out why this didn't work. I just remembered that I forgot to reset my FSB overclock back to default tho hehe. Oops. Thanks all.

 

[ledzepp98]

i just went through that fiasco...and clearing the cmos worked. i flashed the shipping bios and got the reboot problems a lot of people mentioned. finally went back to the 6.06 bios and all is well again. i swear i stopped breathing and my heart stopped beating for 5 minutes until i thought of clearing the cmos...

 

[Playmaker]

I cleared it and the 7.05s are running fine now. I seem to have more RAM usage at startup for some reason with same BIOS settings. Might just be my imagination tho.