DO you have access to another mainboard of the same make/model?
If so here's what to do (it really is safe to do this)
1) Make a boot disk with the flash utility and the correct BIOS version for
your board.
2) Remove the BIOS chip from the good board and place it into the BIOS socket
of one of the boards with the bad flash.
3) Boot up the board with the new BIOS chip in it from the boot floppy you
made in step 1.
4) Carefully remove the BIOS chip (PLEASE USE A CHIP EXTRACTOR) while the
system is running (The BIOS code has already been loaded into RAM and the
chip is not needed to keep things running) and place the chip with the bad
flash on it.
5) Run the flash program and repeat process for other mainboard.
Please be careful when applying this method as you could damage your
mainboard with a carelessly placed metallic objects
I have performed this method on many a board to revive a bad flash it sounds
a bit extreme, but it works great!
-Joe
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 12:17 pm, you wrote:
> Hi guys,
> We've got here a couple of (as far as we know) perfectly good DFI
> motherboards (AK-74, AM-75) that got re-flashed with apparently the
> wrong BIOS and now refuse to do anything except a very good imitation of
> a paperweight. Does anyone out there have the facilities to reflash the
> BIOS chip directly on one of these things? (I can provide chip numbers
> or photos of the boards if you need to know what the chips are.)
>
> If someone can get them both working, you're welcome to one of them in
> return. If you can only get one working, well, you can probably have it
> since it's not really worth it to have to pay someone to fix just one of
> them. And since we didn't pay much for them to begin with, I'd rather
> find an individual who'd be willing to work on them for barter than take
> them to a shop to get "fixed" since it'll undoubtedly cost more to fix
> them than we paid for them.
>
> They are capable of taking up to 1.33Ghz Athlon (maybe higher) and 1.5GB
> of RAM. They're nice boards and I'd rather give them to someone who can
> get them working than just throw them out even if they were pretty
> inexpensive.
>
> Please contact me off-list directly if you can do this.
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