For those with no floppy and have no boot to their mobo with 3 leds

[speshuldusty]

Hi, I just went through a two day ordeal and it is over, I wish to put all knowledge in one spot so the next person doesn't need to face what I did with the mass trial and error.

 

It all starts out with the mobo restaring only after a reboot and not when I clear the cmos. To thwart it, I needed to update the BIOS. I flash the bios accidently with some CD that a person made that doesn't support dfi Lanpaty nf4 ut ultra-d and then I lost my capabilities of booting whatsoever. I was pissed. Who goes to flash bios after just clicking one name of a mobo that is similiar? But whatever.

 

So, HOT FLASH TIME... don't try this at home ;-D

 

In order to hot flash, I needed another motherboard with the same bios chip, some string, and a very strong picking device. GOOGLE WHERE YOUR BIOS CHIP IS. I knew from experience, but don't stab at the wrong .. So you have a mobo with a bios the same... time to make your boot media

 

Go to bootdisk.com and click 1.44 after reading bootable CD

Then go to download.com and download ultraiso at download.com

 

Open the downloaded file from bootdisk with ultraiso

 

Go to your broken BIOS's mobo website and get its bin file

download awdflash.exe with it somehow

 

drag your mobo xxxxxxx.bin file and awdflash.exe onto the dialog to add next to the command.com stuff already on there and save your iso.

 

Burn the iso to a CD and you are ready to hot flash

 

Once your computer is off, cut the power and hit the power button to drain your capacitors, then start prodding your bios chip on your good mobo... that's not as great as your broken one, and carefully remove it. I found jiggling back and forth, raising it bit by bit causes it least stress.

 

Once you have your chip removed, put a string around it and make sure it is tough so it won't break. tie it like a pro to, use your head. Then, place it back in. I tied up my other chip too, just because prodding is such a classy lady.

 

Boot your computer up and let the CD start your MSDOS. Once in there, remember your cd drive is usually made R:

 

Now, pull on that string and save your good BIOS from harm's way.

Put the non-booting BIOS in the mobo

type in awdflash.exe xxxxxx.bin snpyf

 

This is from looking at the commands here

 

NOW DO NOT LET YOUR COMPUTER REBOOT. when it says flash done and press F1, Just turn off the power, take out the BIOS chip, and see if your original mobo will boot with it. If not, no biggie... just keep redoing. BUT if you forget to remove your bios chip and do the flash, you're up . creek if you didn't get the right BIOS

 

Here's the funny thing. I actually did forget to remove the old BIOS chip and flashed the wrong mobo's chip. I put the still broken bios into my mobo thinking I flashed it and freaked the fudge out. I then tried to boot to the other mobo to re-hot flash and it didn't POST!!! It was only after much hair loss (I'm 20...) that I realized my error and put the other mobo's chip in my mobo... POSTed (angelic hymnal) aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

... now I need to hot flash again when I want to put my old mobo in a media center or something. LOL

 

So yeah, if you are an idiot like me and fuxt your bIOS, HOT FLASH!!!!

 

If you aren't, follow me instructions with the CD creation of your own that you can put countless xxxxx.bins in the iso editing for changing bios and just type in R: awdflash.exe and go through it normally. You have to prompt the snf to get a non mobo to flash incorectly for your mobo

[ReelFiles]

What each user does to their own hardware is their own business, but I just want to say that I don't recommend anyone doing this, if you do don't come crying that we said it's a good thing to do. You can really fudge up your mobo if you don't know what you're doing.

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You could have always checked here first.

 

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