Yeah...static is a nasty one
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 08:22 pm, you wrote:
> Be very aware of static! :-) This is a very similar method to the one I
> used to recover data off of ancient SCSI and MFM drives back in the day.
> LOL
>
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 08:12 pm, Joe wrote:
> > 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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