Hey, Xperties asked me to let everyone know, he won't be around for a couple weeks. He made a bit of a boo boo. He flashed his bios and killed his motherboard. So unless anyone knows how to recover the motherboard, he has to wait to purchase a new one. His apologies for being unavailable to the board.

http://www.leandercomputing.com/bios.html

tell him to try that service.. very cheap.
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You just have to hate that!!

I wish I had a really cool tip to recover it for him, but I do not... He will be back with bigger and better I am sure.

This is a good source for flash failure replacement bios chips which you can install yourself.Hope you get it running ok.

BiosWorld

borrow a chip of a buddy who has the same make of bios and type of chip. boot the pc then pause it, whack in the floppy, swap bios chip.. somethinglike that. or theres a guy in the neatherlands who will do it for you for about $1.50 but then you will have to wait about 5 weeks for your chip to go and come back!

just buy a new chip, they only cost a few bux, dont buy a new mobo!

Reason why im a bit unsure on how you reflash it is ive never been dumb enough to screw it up!

Nice link zipp51, thanks.....

they are very pricey just for a bios chip.. id send it to the guy in the neatherlands and have him reflash it for you! ill try find his site.

theres also these: http://www.badflash.com in NY as well as EU and they reflash for about $12 so that will save you money Xperties

go look on your motherboard manufactures website they should sell you a chip replacement for very cheap unlike some of the rip off companys that specialize in selling bios chips for other people motherboards.

thanks everyone....chris contacted the motherboard company and they are sending him a replacement chip for 29.95

He should have it in a week or so.
Thanks again for all your help

bugga.. i neva saw this topic before.. and all i have to say is LOL .. flashing ur bios is kinda risky at times.. reserved for Xperts Xperties w00t

Most BIOS's have a backup one to allow you to flash no matter what; for AMI ones its this:

1.Power down the system.
2.Copy the latest ROM file from the appropriate and latest BIOS diskette onto a bootable diskette.
3.Rename the ROM file to NEWBIOS.ROM, and insert the diskette in the notebook.
4.Attach an external keyboard.
5.Press and hold the <Ctrl>-<Home> keys.
6.Power up the system and continue to hold <Ctrl>-<Home>.
7.There will be no video, this is normal.
8.Wait until you hear diskette activity and release &<Ctrl>-<Home> keys.
9.System will beep at the end of bootblock and the system will reboot.
10.The system should boot normally now. (i.e.. press F1 to set CMOS defaults)
11.Next power down you can remove the external keyboard.

why didnt he just get it flashed for $12 rather than paying $30 for a new one?

What if power at his home failed while flashing bios?

There was this episode of "The Screen Savers" on TechTV talking about flashing your BIOS. Aparently, the motherboard makers company isn't supposed to charge you that much...

hmm.. very unlikely to happen but yeh it possible.

Lol, I'm always afraid of this shiz.. each time i do it.. I sit there very quietly watching a lil dos progress bar.. scares the s**t outa me... heart starts to beat fast too for some reason... lol

i can neva get mine to work.. it does nothing for me.. bloody flash bios crap

Next time get Asus motherboard. I'm flashing my bios live from Windows.
Just restart PC and job done.

maybe.. is there a socket 370 Asus board?

where do you take it to get it flashed? or how do you get it flashed?

ok ok ok...Yes its me and I'm back online once again.

Basically it was a loss of power. For those who say "well get a UPS", I have one but they are worthless most of the time. Anyways what I thought was my bios turned out to be a bad RAM module I got from corsair. So a company that I do business with allot lent me a MB. Well that MB wouldn't boot up either so i thought it must be that old VID card. (been acting up "i thought") so he lent me a new VID card and tested mine. Well mine tested out good and the MB I had borrowed still wouldn't boot up with the new VID card. So i was left up to only one thing. It has to be the new RAM. So i took that cool little benchmarking tool memtest (Find it in our downloads section) and ran a 10 time loop on the module. No errors. errr...ok. So let me call ASUS and corsair and be on hold for an hour for corsair and wait 15 hours for a call back from corsair (by the way they called me at 9:30pm...kinda late). After digging through old PC books and ready up on module and specs on MB I figured only one thing.

The RAM was unable to function in any lower end MB. Mind you this is a new corsair XMS DDR3500 running at 433mhz. The fasted available. Being told it would be backwards compatible made me a little upset finding out this is not always true. So I invested a few more bucks in a new ASUS P4PE MB (Now i have a extra ASUS P4S533 Motherboard) and all is running "actually screaming" its way through any task I throw at it.

So the moral of the story is, don't be cool and buy the latest and greatest thing out until you've done your homework, even then wait a little bit for other things to catch up.

Well said and welcome back.

Glad to have you back, XPerties...

welcome back xperties

nice to see ya back chris..its been awhile....

=Drew

Welcome back

Yepper, welcome back Chris. Hellofaride