Need quick help for flashing bios from hard drive.

[bluesky]

I swaped the bios chip after it powered on.
I'm trying to reprogram the bios chip.
How can I flash bios from hard drive?
Thanks.

 

[boomerang]

It's no different than flashing from a floppy. Just navigate to the correct directory and execute the same commands.

I'm assuming here that you've done this before.

 

[bluesky]

No, I didn't execute any flash manually.
Can you elaborate this procedure?
Thanks.

 

[bluesky]

Do I have to flash on dos prompt on Windows?
And use same command?

 

[bacillus]

Actually, if you put the flasher and the .bin file on the root of the hard drive, then boot to command prompt only, using F8 at boot up, you can run it from the C drive.
Just enter the flash program XXXXXXXX.EXE, or what ever, then when it prompts you for the program to flash, you must also enter the path, ie. C:\xxxxxxxxx.bin or whatever the file name is. Follow the rest and flash away. Don't disturb anything during the flash program. Once done, delete those files from the root of the drive.

 

[bluesky]

Thanks.
I can't reboot now, since I Put the bad bios chip on board.
Is it possible to open Dos Prompt, and execute the line, A:\awdfl789 bios file name/nbl/pn/sn/cc/r/ld?

 

[bacillus]

are you at C: prompt?

 

[bluesky]

No, I'm on Windows, and I swapped the bios chip, so I have a bad bios chip on this system. Obviously, I can't restart this system, I can't swap out the chip when systme bootup to floppy to falsh from it.

 

[bacillus]

flashing your bios in ms dos prompt is not really recommended. in your case I suppose an exception has to be made. you could try it but shut down all unecessary background programs including antivirus & screen saver. open ms dos prompt & type cd\ & press enter. this will get you to c: prompt. if your flasher & bios file are on the root of C, follow my previous instructions to flash. if not, put your floppy in with the flasher & bios file & type in A: to switch to A drive & proceed flashing.
good luck,

 

[bluesky]

Thanks.
I'll try it.

 

[bluesky]

Well, it's no go.
The chips are different, one is Winbond(pro2a) and Eon(on turbo).
Luckily the winbond chip survived several times of extraction.
Time to get a badflash chip.
Thanks for the help.