Hi there, this has been driving me crazy for weeks now, hope somebody can help...
Last month I reflashed the BIOS on an old Gateway G6-266 PC. The motherboard was on OEM intel AL440LX. In order to use intel's generic BIOS rather than a Gateway specific one I had to use the recovery method. This was succesful - I go the requisit number of beeps to tell me that everything had gone through ok. With all jumpers replaced, I rebooted. The machine recognised the video card and then flashed up a full screen graphic - "motherboard designed by intel". When I hit Esc it took me through to a black screen confirming the BIOS type (with the correct upgraded version in place), checked all the memory succesfully, identified the fixed disk, CDROM, keyboard and mouse. At the bottom of the screen was the option - f2 to enter setup. I hit f2 and "entering setup..." was displayed. At that point the machine began to hang - infact, I left it for half an hour and still nothing had changed. I tried to boot in config mode (by changing the appropriate jumper) and again was told "entering configuration mode..." at which point the system hung again".
AL440LX motherboards being pretty cheap these days and wishing to find out where I'd gone wrong I bought a new board. Once it was all hooked up I found that exactly the same problem was occuring. This time I hadn't touched the BIOS. As a final resort, I removed the motherboard battery to clear the CMOS but the same problem keeps happening.
Could another component be causing this and need replacing? The hard drive is empty, I formatted it prior to updating the BIOS (plan being to completely clean up the system and update Windows 98).
I know these are old bits and I could just bin it all but I don't want to be defeated! Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Wilbur.
Last month I reflashed the BIOS on an old Gateway G6-266 PC. The motherboard was on OEM intel AL440LX. In order to use intel's generic BIOS rather than a Gateway specific one I had to use the recovery method. This was succesful - I go the requisit number of beeps to tell me that everything had gone through ok. With all jumpers replaced, I rebooted. The machine recognised the video card and then flashed up a full screen graphic - "motherboard designed by intel". When I hit Esc it took me through to a black screen confirming the BIOS type (with the correct upgraded version in place), checked all the memory succesfully, identified the fixed disk, CDROM, keyboard and mouse. At the bottom of the screen was the option - f2 to enter setup. I hit f2 and "entering setup..." was displayed. At that point the machine began to hang - infact, I left it for half an hour and still nothing had changed. I tried to boot in config mode (by changing the appropriate jumper) and again was told "entering configuration mode..." at which point the system hung again".
AL440LX motherboards being pretty cheap these days and wishing to find out where I'd gone wrong I bought a new board. Once it was all hooked up I found that exactly the same problem was occuring. This time I hadn't touched the BIOS. As a final resort, I removed the motherboard battery to clear the CMOS but the same problem keeps happening.
Could another component be causing this and need replacing? The hard drive is empty, I formatted it prior to updating the BIOS (plan being to completely clean up the system and update Windows 98).
I know these are old bits and I could just bin it all but I don't want to be defeated! Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Wilbur.
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