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Bires
03-31-2002, 08:49 PM
...keep us posted if you figure out why that BIOS wasn't working. I love to get a new bios and see if/how performance changes...but it's usually for the *better*.
Hoser
03-31-2002, 09:06 PM
I usually won't update the BIOS unless I'm having a problem with it, or it needs to be updated to support a faster processor I'm putting in the computer.
faither
04-01-2002, 08:59 AM
At least your install completed. I had one update frezze...bye, bye, n-board. Some bios will allow you to revert to the prior version. Check whether the cache is enabled. I had one recently that controlled cache through the bios. If you ever want to see a system crawl, try it.
Speedfreak
04-01-2002, 11:11 AM
Maybe it was some new setting in the new bios? That is pretty strange.
Speedfreak
04-01-2002, 11:20 AM
Originally posted by faither
At least your install completed. I had one update frezze...bye, bye, n-board. Some bios will allow you to revert to the prior version. Check whether the cache is enabled. I had one recently that controlled cache through the bios. If you ever want to see a system crawl, try it.

If you have another board with the same bios chip you can reflash your messed up one. Get the bios for the messed up one on a floppy then boot the GOOD computer with a win98 boot disk or something to get it to a dos prompt. Then, while the system is running, take the good bios of the good computer out and put the bad one from the other computer in and run the flash program on it. Then take that out, put the original for that system back in and stick that newely flashed one back in the broken computer and you are all set.

This work. This is what I had to do with my i-opener to flash it's bios to a hacked one so I could run anything I wanted on the harddrive I mounted in it. It has the same bios chip as my BH6.

Or, you could go to http://www.badflash.com/ and send them your chip to be reprogramed for $11.00, or have them send you a new chip pre-programmed with your bios for $19.00.
Speedfreak
04-02-2002, 12:38 PM
There are actually mobos that have 2 bioses nowadays. That is in case you screw up flashing the main one. ;)
Speedfreak
04-02-2002, 11:25 PM
Oh hell no. I don't think we would see that.