flashed P2B bios - now CMOS screen freezes

[larryw]

I just flashed my P2B bios from 1.006 to 1.012 (I'm going to try and run a PIII). Everything seems to be ok, until I go into the CMOS screen. It doesn't seem to have the correct
drive info and it just hangs there. I can't escape out or do anything. The drive info that flashes by on boot is correct (the same as before the flash) I boot into Windows fine. I don't think this is normal but is there anything I can do about it? Any harm in leaving it the way it is?

thanks,
larry

 

[Eug]

Huh? You hang but you boot into windows? Not sure what you mean.

 

[Tonec]

Please clarify your post. If you have multiple drive partitions, you need to go into the bios and set auto.

 

[larryw]

I can boot just fine, no freezing there. I can press Delete to get into the bios setup. Everything seems to be normal until I go into
the CMOS section - where the drive info is. Once I'm in there I can't do anything - no buttons work, even to escape out to the previous menu. The drive info it has listed does not match what was there before - but when I continue the boot and the drive info flashes by before starting Windows, that info is correct.

Hopefully that makes more sense.

 

[ironwoode]

Did you tell the Bios to load setup defaults? If not, that could explain the problem. Could be a bad flash, or crappy Bios.

 

[larryw]

Yes, I loaded the setup defaults.

 

[AndyHui]

Sounds like a bad flash. Have you tried to reflash the BIOS?

 

[larryw]

Yep, tried reflashing the bios, same deal. Haven't tried going back
to the old version because I think the Coppermine won't work with anything less than 1.012, correct?