help with a dead pcchips m715 dual lx board bios

[BlackhawksFan]

Update:
The board finally would boot from the boot rom block using ctrl-home, and would flash from boot disk. The current bios I have will bring the board back up and will be operational. But as soon as the power is turned off, it will not post correctly. So much for the pcchips all in one bios for m715 / m720.

I figured out the board is actually a M715 v1.2. Looks like I need the old one dated 8-??-1998 or something dated before 4-01-1999 (which I tried and did not work)?

Anyone have access to something like this? Please PM or email me if you do. Thanks!

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Original Post:
Well, I just got a bios update for the M720 dualie LX board from pcchips. This must have been a corrupt download, because now the system will not POST.

This board uses an AMI bios. I've read somewhere you can do ctrl-home when powering on, and the system will boot from floppy (and will load the bios if its named amiboot.rom, etc...) and be able to reflash. Well, its not even accessing the floppy. I am guessing this bios is now toast.

Anyone have any ideas or remedies?

 

[Elledan]

If the system doesn't even POST, then the BIOS is indeed 'toast'. There are only two ways to 'revive' this motherboard:

1) Do a 'Hot-Flash' of the BIOS (with this you're copying the BIOS of another motherboard to the BIOS of your motherboard).
2) Replace the BIOS (the chip itself).

 

[Bleep]

May I ask Why did you decide to flash the BIOS? The reason I am asking I am generating a data base on what are the reasons users flash to the newest bios available.
Thanks
Bleep

 

[BlackhawksFan]

Elledan:
That's what I figured. Thanks.


Bleep:
Well, I thought a bios flash was required on this board to use PPGA celerons or for Win2k comatibility (the bios I had was dated before either one).

Most companies will at least document a description of the bios update and what revision of a particular board model it applies to and what the update does (hence this was my first bad flash, never have used a wrong or corrupted version before). Apparently PCChips is too cheap to do that, ah well.

 

[BlackhawksFan]

update bump

 

[Bleep]

Fan:
thanks for the answer to my question. You had good reason for flashing, all to often I find that people flash the BIOS and have no really good reason except there is a new one out. Quit a few go bad.
Thanks again
Bleep