Holy "F"ing "S" UNIFLASH saved my "F"ing life tonight OMG!!! Near death experience for my new P4S333

[Slacker]

OMG OMG OMG!! I killed my new P4S333, freaking bios flash froze seconds after it completed erasing the freaking bios!!!

I was nuts for a couple of hours, trying hot flashes with two different motherboards and a few different flash programs and nothing would work, I tried uniflash on an i815e pro and it wouldnt work so I was about to give up but tried one more time on an old BH6 and it freaking worked OMG I was so happy

I love that bh6 it has been a great mobo for almost three years and now after all these years of faithful service it goes above and beyond and comes through for me when I really needed it, and if I could kiss the person who wrote uniflash I would, right square on the mouth!

I thought I was ufcked, I am so relieved

 

[LukFilm]

How does the program work? How did it save your motherboard exactly?

 

[Coolone]

yeah man, share the love with us

 

[Soulflare]

Did this happen to you after updating from Rev. 1001 to 1004? My system wouldn't restart
or post after I successfully flashed the BIOS for at least 30 minutes. Scared the crap out of
me.

 

[Slacker]

Well, the bios update froze after erasing the bios, so my bios was blank and the computer has no info to start up, that is why people are scared to update their bios, but a problem happens very rarely, just that when it does you are screwed, you either need a new bios chip or need to find someone with a bios chip programer.

Uniflash is a program that will flash any bios image to any bios chip (well almost any)

How it saved me was that I was able to hotflash my dead P4S333 motherboard bios by pulling the bios chip from my board, going to my computer with the bh6 motherboard and booting it to a floppy with the bios file and uniflash program, then after it booted I pulled the bh6 motherboard bios chip out and inserted my P4S333 chip into the bh6 and ran the uniflash program which blindly dumps the bios image to the chip regardless of what chip/bios/motherboard you are running

 

[Slacker]

Soulflare, yes, it was from 1001 to 1004, I was using the stupid asus update in winxp and the computer locked at 19% on the step after it completed the erase step, I will never use an o.s. based bios update program again (probably )

 

[Zlash]

Just a little excited here..

 

[Soulflare]

<< I will never use an o.s. based bios update program again (probably ) >>



Grab "aflash.exe" off of the Asus website... it runs off a floppy boot disc.

 

[Slacker]

yeah, I know how to flash a bios, I was just being lazy and tried to use the asusupdate windows program, I used MSI's o.s. based bios program lots of times with the i815e pro and never had a problem.

Excited? FnA right, my computer was down for the count, flatlining, leaving lasvegas, it was wormfood dude, and I brought it back from the dead, I was the biggest dumbass on the planet when I killed it, but now I am Da MAN, WooHoo!

 

[panhead49]

good to hear a "good" bios flash story!!...........you da man!!!!

 

[bbarnes]

<< Near death experience for my new P4S333 >>



Scary.

Glad its all OK.

 

[RSMemphis]

Good to know that one can pull BIOS chips will the computer is up. I did not know that.

 

[HouRman]

It's not death... all you'd have to do is rma the mobo, pay for services and they'll put a new bios on it for you.

I flashed my bios to 1004 not because I had problems with the bios.. but because of forums like this with ppl telling me I should.

Sheesh, why can't I be ignorant of all the tweaks and be the happy camper with a Dell.

 

[Slacker]

After the computer boots the bios is done, it is tough to get the bios chip out though, the sockets are plastic and the chips are ceramic, and you have to use a pick to pry the chip out carefully, the socket flexes a lot and the chip makes a little crunching sound, it is a bit scary, I have done hotflashes a bunch of times so I know what it looks and feels like to pull the chip, it was unusually tough to get the chip out of the MSI i815e pro board, I was starting to wonder if they had glued it down, but it finally came out, the chip in the bh6 was no problem.

 

[Slacker]

Pay? send them my board? but but but I would lose money and be without my computer for what? two weeks? NAH! I will do everything I can to fix it myself first, if I hadnt been able to fix it my next step would have been to find a local computer shop with an eprom programer.

 

[Slacker]

HouRman, one thing I like about the 1004 bios is that you can disable that annoying fullscreen boot logo, in the 1001 bios there was no option to disable it.

 

[Ausm]

Uniflash...I must find this progie will come in useful someday I know


Ausm

 

[Duvie]

I am not sure what bios I had on my asus p4s333 board but I used the asus program to flash to 1004c and it worked fine in winxp....I am pissed I picked wrong startup art...it looks like crap...

Maybe I got lucky....

I also used msi update program and it worked as well....

 

[Slacker]

Duvie, you can disable the full screen logo in the bios with the 1004c version

 

[JackBurton]

Dude, even if you totally jack up the BIOS flash, you can still reflash with a floppy (with an autoexec.bat for the BIOS flash) and a ISA video card. Uhhh, you don't have an ISA slot on that board do you? Hmm, ya that sucks.

 

[Slacker]

No ISA slot and the computer wasnt accessing the floppy when I turned it on

 

[agentK]

everyday i learn something new.

any link where i can get that uniflash? might come in handy some day.

(my two cents) just flashed my new mobo last week off a floppy i thought to be new. halfway through the flashing procedure, i noticed my new floppy lying around and realized that the floppy inside my pc was one i have been using for five months now. YIKES! guess i was lucky it turned out ok. i later CheckDisked my old floppy and bad sectors came out. pretty close call!

 

[Slacker]

The original uniflash, not updated since 1998 UNIFLASH

This is where I got it, it was updated january 2002 UNIFLASH

 

[nortexoid]

haha...

i did the same thing to an ECS K7S5A and freaked...searched the internet for a couple minutes, found about AMI Boot block, dropped a bios on a disk - prayed - nothing..took me like 3 tries using different bioses each time until the frickin thing finally wrote a good bios and booted...

 

[Jeff H]

Jack, an ISA video card is nice, and you will get to see the flash utility executed out of your autoexec.bat. If you don't have an ISA card though, all is not lost, as you can still have the autoexec.bat implement the flash. What one needs to do is watch the floppy drive activity light. When you've not seen any activity for a while, pull the floppy disk and reboot.