RE: [edlug] OT: Award BIOS chip wanted...

["Mark R Cairney" <Mark.Cairney@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Ive got an Asus A7M-266 mobo which I kind of knackered doing a BIOS
update- turned out some of my hardware didn't like the new BIOS, in a
panic I tried to flash it back to an earlier one and now I have a fairly
nice motherboard rendered useless. Ah well, you learn by experience I
suppose :)

p.s. if anyone solves the "how to flash the BIOS on a machine that cant
boot" conundrum, its free to a good home- it will take up to an XP 2400
and has full ATA-100 and DDR RAM support

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx [mailto:owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew Elcock
Sent: 16 January 2004 10:14
To: michael eng
Cc: edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [edlug] OT: Award BIOS chip wanted...


michael eng wrote:
> * Paul Redmond-san ga 2004-01-15 no 13:49 (-0000) ni kakimashita
> 
> 
>>With a flash BIOS chip, your PC is the chip programmer. You just need
an
>>appropriate programming .exe which ive downloaded from Award.
> 
> 
> But if you put in the empty flash chip to program, how do you boot the
PC 
> to run the .exe file?
> 
> Michael
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Well - there is a sensible option - have a dual bios mobo!
Then you can boot it up and flash the contents of the working one to the

other.

'course this does not help you I guess, but I thought I would let you 
know what is available these days.

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