Flashed BIOS on my friends Abit BX6-r2, now board doesn't POST !ANY SUGGESTIONS!

[schdaddy]

I built a computer last year for my friend using an Abit BX2-r2 motherboard. A few weeks ago he bought one of those cheap WD hard drive from SAMS, thankx to the HOTDEALS thread 😉
We planed on putting the new drive, updating the BIOS, then putting the OS on

everything went fine, until the flash session
booted to a floppy
started up AWDFLASH, made a backup of current BIOS to disk
flashed board with the more current BIOS, flashed failed (one of the blocks or something didn't write)

no big deal I thought, I would just reflash the board with the backup.bin I made and try a different revision of the BIOS
well after reflashing the backup copy of the old BIOS, the system rebooted on its own!?!?!
after all of the old BIOS was written, now the board doesn't POST

any suggestions?
please tell me if there is anything else I could add to help

thankx in advanced chris

 

[Vegito]

Buy a bios chip for $15 bucks or get a new board... when you plug a floppy drive does it try to boot or doesn't even boot.. ie. boot without video or not even boot...

 

[schdaddy]

doesn't try to access the floppy
no video, no POST beeps nothing

I've seen some boards have a BIOS recover feature, which this one doesn't appear to have

where can I buy a BIOS chip and how could I program it?

once again
thankx
chris

 

[Vegito]

I saw a few on e8ay, I also heard that people have tried from a good board..

Boot board
Shadow the BIOS so everything is copied to the 384K ram above 640K
While system is ON - PULL BIOS
Put the broken one in and flash.

it sound's crazy but seems to work.

I saw some on e8ay for sale, contact abit tech for a new bios. Most manufacture sells new bioses.. and it should come pre programmed.

 

[DaddyG]

Hot flashing is pretty simple but i would add that its best to remove the good bios chip first and hold it against the connectors during boot, makes it easier to remove. Hold bad chip in place and flash.
Course this is much easier if the mobo is outside the case.

 

[Lore]

Anyone ever hotflash with a PLCC (socketed square) chip? I'm curious as to how that would work; I have the chip pullers but I'm afraid that by pulling the chip out I'll cause sparks or something.

 

[stockjock]

I'm no Golden or Platinum member and those guys probably know way more than me..heck I don't understand half the stuff they already told you...but can't you just remove the board battery for like 15 mins. and then try to reflash the bios...I've heard guys try this and it working..

 

[Nailbunny]

schdaddy,
MY KA7-100 just died on me, doing the same as yours. NO post, video, beeps, nothing. Check out Badflash.com. You can get a new bios from him for $23, or one reprogrammed for $15.

-NB