Flashing IWILL KK266 BIOS

[ksallen]

Quick question for yall. At the risk of revealing my bios flashing virginity, I need help. When I run awdflash.exe, before I can enter the filename of the update, I get an error.. ("Fail - Due to EMM386 or QEMM) What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

 

[Pabster]

Not to make you feel stupid, but have you enabled the "Flashable?" option in the BIOS? You must do that before you can flash it...

 

[ksallen]

yeah, i did that.

 

[panhead49]

you dont have to enter or type anything....run the awdflash on the floppy like it says,,then while booting hit alt f2, and every thing runs by itself....sit there and watch....(was for me)

 

[A5]

Don't run it in Windows/DOS Mode...do what Panhead said.

 

[Pabster]

I hope you aren't trying to flash from a DOS session under Winbloze. That's a bad, bad, no, terrible idea. Make a clean boot disk (DR-DOS works great for this) and put the BIOS update files on it. Boot to that floppy and use it to flash.

 

[Viper22]

Basically all ive ever had to do is put the files that extract with the bios onto a blank floppy and then do the F2 thing when the system boots. never had a problem yet.

Viper22

 

[LuNoTiCK]

How come in my bios, it doesnt matter if I make it flashable or non flashable? It still flashes. I put it on non flashable just so I dont mess with it somehow, and than I go to upgrade the bios, I forget to change it to flashable, but it still flashes? I dont think thats normal is it?

 

[ksallen]

Well, I got it to start at least, using Alt-F2, reading off a floppy, but now my system just hangs at the next screen. Am I just an idiot, or just unlucky?

 

[LukFilm]

Ah, don't creat a floppy, just unzip the files on your hard drive and flash it from it. Press F8 before Windows start loading and then last option.

 

[ksallen]

:Q Thanks for all the advice. I finally figured it out. It seemed as though awdflash.exe was having problems with the kk0515.bin file. I tried editing the file in DOS, just to see if I could read it. I got a read error while attempting to look at the file. Literally ten copy commands later from HD to floppy, the file suddenly worked, and my bios now has a nice afterglow. Interesting...