HELP! I blew my BIOS on MSI K7T Pro 2A:(

[MeloManiac]

After having tweaked around with the RAM-tweak possibilities using WCPREDIT, causing no improved performance, but a lot of crashing and instability I decided to let it go. But now my system started locking up at random. So I wanted to flash my BIOS to see if something had been screwed up there. I used MSI Live and during the process it came up with a VERIFY ERROR, rebooted, and of course, a lot of beeping and no posting. So.... How do I get another BIOS chip??? Do I really have to get in touch with either MSI or Award?? Since both of those companies are American (or Taiwanese) it'll take me forever to obtain a new chip, something like 1 month at least. Anyone who knows if there's a faster way to get it done from Europe? Also, anyone who knows how much this will set me back?

I am desperate...

BTW my system ran perfectly without a single crash for the first two weeks until I started this tweaking cr*p.... I'll never do THAT again, for sure!!

 

[jojocat]

www.badflash.com

 

[jojocat]

www.badflash.com

 

[bluesky]

Hey, I replied to you on my thread.
If you need quick fix with bios chip, and you're sure you can pull it out,
go to my thread, and send PM to w9design. He may be able to send the bios chip quickly to you.

 

[bluesky]

Oops.
You're in Europe.
Well, you'd better contact MSI if it's in your country.
If you send the RMA form with fax, they'll contact with you by phone.

 

[ZoSo]

Try this,

FOR AWARD BIOS
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Make a bootable floopy disk
Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content (e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin)
Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes up)
Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.

 

[tjdavis1138]

If his Pro2A did the same thing mine did, it won't even make it to the post screen. When you re-boot it just beeps over and over.

 

[MeloManiac]

Thanks guys. I looked at Badflash and looked at that solution. But it would take me 1-2 weeks before I could get that done, so I called my retailer and he'll do it, although a bit more expensive, 50$. And yes, I can't get to post either so a floppy won't help...

 

[Mem]

It`s always dangerous if you`ve bad stability & try to flash your Bios(I know you hope the flashing will go well & improve stability)but there`s always that danger that you will have a bad flash,LiveBios works OK for stable systems,however if you have stability problems it`s better to do it from floppy with more then one Bios version backed up on floppy.

 

[MeloManiac]

Well the BIOS flash didn't go wrong because of instability. My computer didn't crash, the BIOS update just failed and then it reboots automatically. And I am apparently not the only one who experienced this, flashing 2.1 over 2.1 with MSI Live. So bottom line is: I'll never flash in Windows again And I hope my computer will be stable again when I get the motherboard back. If not I probably have a f*cked up mobo which I'll have to return:/

 

[w9design]

Melo -- I can get you a new BIOS chip.
Please e-mail me (nate@laferle.com) when you get a chance and we can talk.

Nate

 

[JimMc]

Moral of this story is flash BIOS in a minimal DOS environment. Too many glitches are possible when working within Windows....