Alright, I recently got a K7S5A from a friend when i upgraded my processor to an XP 1900+. I have since been running 2k and decided it was time to do a format, so I placed the bootable CD in the drive and rebooted, to no avail. I tried tons of things and what I finally had to do was make a bootdisk w/ the bios flashing files on it on another computer (Due to the bug in pre-9/01 bioses) and then boot up with it. I started the flash and it looked like it was goind well so I sat down on the couch. The system booted back up and locked 3 lines after initializing the scsi adapter (for some reason this bios does this just before accessing the cmos menu or deciding on the boot device). So I went into the bios, have played with the settings extensively and now I've reached a new problem. After I turned off the machine and rebooted, I now get two high ascii characters seperated by a space(Ï Ï or alt+0207 in System font). It sits here and does nothing regardless of the boot device I select in the menu, so I cant get back in to reflash the bios to an older version. The actual output looks someting like this:
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor,1400Mhz
Checking NVRAM..
524288KB OK
DEL: Setup F8: Boot Menu F12: Network Boot
*Initializes hard Drives*
*Initializes Scsi card w/ cdrom drives*
Ï Ï
My system specs are as follows:
ECS K7S5A running the newest bios (with onboard Lan)
AMD Athlon XP1900+
1x512mb pc133 sdram
Adaptec 2940UW Pro SCSI Card
Plextor/Kenwood SCSI CDROM Drives
4 DMA100 IDE Hard Drives by IBM
I guess my question is.. is there any way to salvage this, or should I just start RMA'ing now?
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor,1400Mhz
Checking NVRAM..
524288KB OK
DEL: Setup F8: Boot Menu F12: Network Boot
*Initializes hard Drives*
*Initializes Scsi card w/ cdrom drives*
Ï Ï
My system specs are as follows:
ECS K7S5A running the newest bios (with onboard Lan)
AMD Athlon XP1900+
1x512mb pc133 sdram
Adaptec 2940UW Pro SCSI Card
Plextor/Kenwood SCSI CDROM Drives
4 DMA100 IDE Hard Drives by IBM
I guess my question is.. is there any way to salvage this, or should I just start RMA'ing now?