The following message will not get you a new BIOS on-board, but: The board might very well be attempting to make you know what to do. It probably does not 'know' how to init the PCI chipset (completely). I did have some degree of luck with an ISA VGA card: my board reported that it wanted a new flash-BIOS contents on the screen once it could initialize a video card.... PCI and 'up' busses require initialisation, an oldie ISA slot needs no BIOS support to work. That is why i used an ISA video card to allow the computer to 'spit out' it's grievances. NB: probably a monochrome/CGA card would work just as well, but who still has a CGA monitor lying around?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Purdie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: dinsdag 10 september 2002 17:08 > To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L > Subject: Re: Gateway G5 233 wrongly flashed BIOS > > > > I tried updating this AMI OAAES052 BIOS but this process was not > > successful. When I power On the machine it just keeps on > giving short > beeps > > whilst the FDD LED is ON. The interval changes when I put > in a diskette. > > > > Does someone know how to recover this flash BIOS. > > It sounds like it is trying to load a new BIOS image from the > floppy disk > drive. Some modern flash bios's have a hard coded routine in > them to load a > new BIOS from a floppy in the event of the main one being > damaged. Find out > who made the motherboard and go and have a look at their > website to see if > you can find out how their system works. Failing that have a > look at AMI's > website. You need to find out how to write the BIOS onto the > floppy for the > machine to understand it. Some write it raw to a disk, some > use a DOS disk > and call it BIOS.ROM etc. > > Good luck :) > > RP > > -- > Author: Richard Purdie > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- Author: Faasse, P.R. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
