Johnson Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 I decided to flash to the BTA bios last night. I now have a no boot situation.Prior to flashing I loaded optimised defaults and rebooted all ok etc.Enabled usb kb and mouse saved and rebooted. Flashed from the floppy ok but could not get the leyboard to work and allow me to press F1.Obviously with no other option I switched off and cleared the CMOS using the procedure that has been well documented on here. I am now stopping at 1 led light and a constant beeping which would indicate VGA? I cleared the CMOS a few times now and still no joy.I am also now using a PS2 keyboard whilst following Ex-Roadies guide to CMOS clearing. Question is if it is a bad flash would I be able to hot flash the bios with my DFI NF3 Ultra board?I have compared the Bios chip numbers and they are pretty damn close. Over to guys for suggestions/ideas. Oh yeah I currently have the board in the clear CMOS state whilst I am at work so it will be in that state for at least 10 hours. Thanks J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahooad Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 I decided to flash to the BTA bios last night. I now have a no boot situation.Prior to flashing I loaded optimised defaults and rebooted all ok etc.Enabled usb kb and mouse saved and rebooted. Flashed from the floppy ok but could not get the leyboard to work and allow me to press F1.Obviously with no other option I switched off and cleared the CMOS using the procedure that has been well documented on here. I am now stopping at 1 led light and a constant beeping which would indicate VGA? I cleared the CMOS a few times now and still no joy.I am also now using a PS2 keyboard whilst following Ex-Roadies guide to CMOS clearing. Question is if it is a bad flash would I be able to hot flash the bios with my DFI NF3 Ultra board?I have compared the Bios chip numbers and they are pretty damn close. Over to guys for suggestions/ideas. Oh yeah I currently have the board in the clear CMOS state whilst I am at work so it will be in that state for at least 10 hours. Thanks J well i herd there was a problem leaving the clear cmos jumper on too long, so that might not help Anyway, i take it u left the clear cmos jumper on for about 30 mins ... a bad flash of the bios could kill your mobo What happened, did u flash and it finished without errors (those blocks went along the screen, 1/2 rows at a time and about 8 times ? Or did u never get that far due to your keyboard not working ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 Flash was all ok,no bad blocks at all. Have flashed various DFI boards and know the flash routine inside out so I know that it was not a "bad flash" in the normal way.It was just I could not hit F1 to reboot the pc so I powered off and then restarted. J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahooad Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 i wouldnt have thought that needing to press f1 would screw it up, it should have finished flashing anyway Have u tried removing the cmos battery too ? i dont think using ure NF3 bios will work as its probably completly different And i take it "Ex-Roadies" guide is the one where u hold down the del key or whatever ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 Yes it is,very similar to the old NF2 routine tbh. Maybe I have just been unlucky and it might work tonight after a long clear. J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Sz Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 That is exactly why I don' flash from a floppy. Windows XP is known to make loppy drives malfunction, and the first time I've ever tried to flash from a floppy, on my 9npa, the drive malfunctioned during the flash. Needless to say, $25 and a new bios chip later I started using winflash and 10+ flashes later, it still hasn't let me down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahooad Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 That is exactly why I don' flash from a floppy. Windows XP is known to make loppy drives malfunction, and the first time I've ever tried to flash from a floppy, on my 9npa, the drive malfunctioned during the flash. Needless to say, $25 and a new bios chip later I started using winflash and 10+ flashes later, it still hasn't let me down. i flashed from a floppy a few times and its fine the checksum should stop a bad flash ive found u need to do a proper format atleast twice to make sure there are no errors on the floppy first, u cant be too careful doin this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 I have flashed from floppy many times without any issues and also from within Windows without any trouble. I hope that its just hanging up from the CMOS not being cleared for long enough. J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahooad Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 i would hope dfi would send u a replacement bios if it doesnt work .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tmod Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 a bad flash of the bios could kill your mobo Do you mean corrupt the bios so the system won't work or actually kill the motherboard? Tmod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahooad Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 Do you mean corrupt the bios so the system won't work or actually kill the motherboard? Tmod the 1st option however ure bios is dead without a bios, so really both statments are true if you can get a replacemnt bios chip, or a bios programmer then u can recover from it aslogn as the bad flash has not done damage to other components on the motherboard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tmod Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 aslogn as the bad flash has not done damage to other components on the motherboard How would a bad flash hurt something else on the motherboard? A bad flash is nothing more then corrupted data being written to the chip. Now what causes that corrupted data is another story. Tmod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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