Luck-Star Mother BIOS Flash Woes

[smilesdotCom]

I am trying to flash the BIOS on my Lucky-Star 6ABX2V motherboard. I downloaded the BIOS from lucky-star along with the Award Flash utility (awdflash). I get the following error when I flash the BIOS:
"The File checksum does not match" 0bb7H.

The website shows the checksum as 0bb7.

Any ideas?

 

[vailr]

Try "Awdflash /s" to save current bios to disk. Then compare file size of new *.bin file. There were two different bios chip sizes for that series of boards.

 

[smilesdotCom]

Are you implying that the new bios will have the same file size as the old one? I am looking at '.bin' files and notice that most of them have the same file size of 256KB. It is the Checksum that is different.

 

[Jhhnn]

You have entered the twilight zone...The problem with flashing is that you never know until you try. Might work 20 times in a row, and then..one day..whammo!

I take it that your machine will still boot, at least to a floppy. If so, try downloading the whole thing again any way you can, and try over. Might just be a bum download. Before you do anything rash, visit
http://WWW.Badflash.com to establish plan "B". Contacting Unicore is not advisable, I rate them as the "BenDover" of Andover. There may be other good bio services available, once I found badflash, I quit looking.

 

[smilesdotCom]

My PC boots without any problems. What happened is that the BIOS flash program stopped the update because the checksum did not match.

How do I find the right BIOS for this Mobo???

 

[Pennstate]

check out http://www.boardrunner.com/download/bios/6abx2v/6ABX2V.htmIf this is a shopss comp, the chances are it has a 2mbit bios rom.

 

[smilesdotCom]

I tried that site, but when awdflash just hangs with no response. I used a clean win 98 boot disk, etc.


Help!!!

 

[vailr]

Do NOT use a "Win98 boot disk"!
Using a blank floppy, run "format /s" at command prompt.
Then copy Awardflash & bios.bin files to floppy.
Using a "Win98 boot disk" will load a memory manager, which shouldn't be used.

 

[smilesdotCom]

I created a plain boot disk and now I get the following error:
"File sizes do not match"
I am backing up the BIOS first...

 

[smilesdotCom]

I looked, and file sizes are the same...