Help me PLEASE!! BIOS flashing program has locked up. - found a fix, see inside

[Jeff7]

I was just flashing the BIOS on my Epox 8KTA3 like normal. I hit Y to the "Program BIOS?" The status thing says "Programming BIOS," but it's just been sitting there - it didn't even start flashing, not according to the status blocks there. It just accessed the floppy disk briefly, then the floppy light went off. I'm scared to turn it off, as my BIOS may already have been purged.

What do I do??

Update: since there was no other option, I rebooted. However, I noted that while it was attempting to flash, and after the subsequent lockup, it displayed a POST code of 16.


UPDATE: Fixed. I hit Alt+F2 while booting to use the BIOS's own AWDflasher. That one worked. It has now flashed the BIOS.

 

[GundamF91]

there are so many scary stories about FLashing BIOS, I'm hesitant to flash at all.

 

[Jeff7]

Thing is, I have never had any problems flashing a BIOS before, and I've done it fairly often. I really don't know why it froze like that; just glad it was able to reboot safely.

 

[CivicSiRider]

You know, I have never had a problem flashing a BIOS (knock on wood). I don't understand how come others always have trouble. What is it that can cause it to not flash right besides not putting the right files on the boot disk. Maybe typing in the wrong parameters or something?

 

[Jeff7]

That's the other weird thing; all I did was Format a: /s then decompressed the files onto the disk. I never use any special parameters with AWDflash, nor did I use any this time. Don't know what's with it. All I'm trying to do right now is get my T-bird 900 to run at a 133FSB. It won't POST at that though; I have to cut some bridges, which I still can't seem to do; only thing that can cut them it seems is AMD's laser.

 

[bevo]

Are you certain you have the correct flash utility?

 

[DoubleL]

I use to say I don't know why anyone would have a problem flashing the bios, I have done it so many times, Then I killed a A7V, It can happen to anyone at anytime, A old timer says it is like dancing with the devil, If you want to keep upgrading the bios everytime a new one comes out you better have another computer to be safe cause you never know

 

[spanner]

The only problem with flashing is that unlike other software you can't just restart it if it crashes. I have seen a mobo die because Bios caching was enabled and the program using it died so the bios was gone. I have no idea why or how the bois got screwed up by caching, I would think the actual bios would not be erased

 

[Jeff7]

The flash utility was the one that was included in the compressed file from Epox; that file included both the binary BIOS data file, and the flashing utility, so it would have had to have been the right flasher. I'm just glad my motherboard survived the incident.