Force a bios flash with Award bios?

[Bires]

I'm trying to flash a bios over a special (feature-crippled) bios on the board that I know the bios will work on (because I pulled the bios from an identical board with a proper bios).

The flash program that ECS has is Award version 860, by Phoenix.

When I try to flash the bios, the update program says the files sizes don't match, even though the backup of the bad bios and the bios I want to flash are identical in size.


SO...



Does anyone know how to force a flash, ignoring errors on a Award bios?

[DarkFury]

Is the flash update recommended by the manufacturer?

If not... then I get really nervous messin' with flashing the BIOS in fear that the mobo would be ruined.

[Bires]

Is the flash update recommended by the manufacturer?

Im trying to flash a ECS board with it's original bios. The bios I want to use is OEM, and in use on another, identical board.

[DarkFury]

Maybe they aren't "totally identical"... the fact that it didn't work the first time suggests that something is wrong.

I dunno man... sounds kinda risky to me. Well good luck trying.