Is it possible to recover from flashing the wrong BIOS?

[Tsquared55]

OK, newbie here. Went to upgrade an old ASUS P2-99. Downloaded wrong BIOS (yeah stupid) and flashed the mobo. Nothing happens. Powers up, hard drive spins up, but no POST, no video at all. Removed CMOS battery but no joy. I do have the right bios now and I did save the old one but how do I get back to a point of being able to boot from a floppy and fix it?!!!??!! Thanks for any and all help

 

[Krugger]

There is a chance, what bios is it (ie award bios etc). the utility i use for my bios allows for an automatic process to fix something like this. what you do is download the correct bios (on a diff. comp. obviously) and the bios flashing utility. then you name the bios .rom file a certain name, and stick them both on a floppy, and when you start the computer if it reads the floppy it'll try to flash the bios with the proper file. This isn't the most specific answer, and its a long shot sometimes, but its worth a try.
edit- your board uses award bios. I know how it'd work with ami flash, not award flash. look into it though.
edit again- here's how you'd do it. great help file here. pdf help file.
if you need more help just reply or PM me.
read it all, but the focus on this:

Recovering a Corrupt AWARD BIOS:
With AWARD BIOS the process is similar but still a bit different. To recover an AWARD BIOS you
will need to create a floppy diskette with a working BIOS file in .BIN format, an AWARD flash
utility and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. AWARD BIOS will not automatically restore the BIOS
information to the SYSTEM BLOCK for this reason you will need to add the commands necessary
to flash the BIOS in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The system will run the AUTOEXE.BAT file, which
will in turn flash the BIOS. This is fairly easy. Here are the steps you need to take.
· Create a bootable floppy diskette
· Copy the BIOS file and flash utility to the diskette
· Create an text file with any standard text editor and add the following lines
@ECHO OFF
FLASH763 BIOSFILE.BIN /py
In the above example I am assuming that you are using the FLASH763.EXE flash utility. You will
need to replace the FLASH763 with the name of whatever flash utility you are using, and replace
the BIOSFILE.BIN with the name of the BIOS file you are using. You will also need to change the
?/py? to whatever the command is for your flash utility to automatically program the BIOS without
user intervention.
If you do not know the command to automatically flash your BIOS type the name of the flash
utility with a space and then /? to display the utility?s help screen. The help screen should specify
the command switch to automatically flash your BIOS. If you are using the FLASH763.EXE utility
then the switch to automatically flash your BIOS is ?/py?.

 

[eklass]

/me loves the dual bios-ness of his gigabyte board