Help! What run switches to use with AWDFlash for BH6? Edit/ UH OH...

[Optimus]

Edit/ Crap - see update....

Hi all - I picked up a Clery 800 (100mhz) for my old BH6 1.01 board. I gave it a test try setting the fsb,multiplier, and voltage but I get blue screens after Windows 98se loads.

I'm sure I need to update the BIOS as I'm still running the one that came with the board in early 1999! So I have awdflash, the SS bios, and a boot floppy ready, but awdflash has the following switches/ options:

Awdflash 7.97D (C)Award Software 2001 All Rights Reserved

Usage: AWDFLASH [FileName1] [FileName2] [/<sw>[/<sw>...]]
FileName1 : New BIOS Name For Flash Programming
FileName2 : BIOS File For Backing-up the Original BIOS
<Swtches> ?: Show Help Messages
py: Program Flash Memory
pn: No Flash Programming
sy: Backup Original BIOS To Disk File
sn: No Original BIOS Backup
Sb: Skip BootBlock programming
Wb: Always Programming BootBlock
cd: Clear DMI Data After Programming
sd: Save DMI data to file
cp: Clear PnP(ESCD) Data After Programming
cc: Clear CMOS Data After Programming
LD: Destroy CMOS Checksum And No System Halt For First Reboot
After Programming
Tiny: Occupy lesser memory
QI: Qualify flash part number with source file
E: Return to DOS When Programming is done
R: RESET System After Programming
F: Use Flash Routines in Original BIOS For Flash Programming
cks: Show update Binfile checksum cksXXXX: Compare Binfile CheckSum with XXXX

Example: AWDFLASH 6A69R000.bin /py/sn/cd/cp/cks1A26


How on earth do I know which switches to use? Help!!!!

 

[vailr]

Before flashing, select "bios default values" in bios, then reboot from floppy disk.
awdflash.exe bh6_ss.bin /py /sb
Use the earlier awdflash version 6.6; later versions sometimes fail to flash correctly on the BH6.
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/utilities/award_flash/awdfla66.exe
While still in Windows, double-click the downloaded file to extract the AWDFLASH.EXE file.
Boot from a boot floppy which has nothing but:
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
COMMAND.COM
AWDFLASH.EXE
BH6_SS.BIN
(so that no memory manager is running).
After flashing, the CPU speed, multiplier & voltage must be set up under "User Defined" options.

 

[Optimus]

Thanks!!!!!

Will try it now - if I never come back then assume it went very badly.

 

[Optimus]

OK, something went terribly wrong - I'm posting this from the Celery 800 on an Asus CUV4X-C I had to buy this afternoon.

I'm not sure what happened - there were no errors, it counted through fine, then said "Success! Press F1 to reboot"

F1 pressed, system looked like it would reboot.

And it never booted again.

Fans come on, lights too - but nothing else - no beeps, nothing on screen, never reads the floppy.

Cleared the Bios settings (reset battery), held Delete and F10 while turning it on... nada.

Removed everything but a PCI video card, the 300a, and the RAM - still nothing.

ARGH.


Ah well - the good news is that the Asus CUV4X-C seems like a nice little board...