late night session...
feeling a little cavalier with some old hardware...
ran 'flashrom' - seemed to be happy...
made a backup of my existing bios - still happy...
wrote my new bios - flashrom reported job done no problems...still happy...
I reboot, kicking myself for hours of messing around with various
versions of windows trying and failing to update my bios that way...
suddenly - box NOT happy :-(
three short beeps, pause, three short beeps...
I power down, power up - three short beeps repeating - argh !!!
M/B is/was? a Tyan Thunder, with a pair of old opterons on it.
New bios version, carefully hunted down online was - 2885V208.rom.
flashrom worked flawlessly, so no doubt this is pilot error - most
likely I have installed the wrong image.
Do I chuck the m/b and get another on eBay, or is it salvageable ? I
think I saw someone online selling BIOS chips - maybe, if I knew which
chip it was, I could unplug mine and plug a new one in - if it's not all
soldered down...
I'm afraid I don't know much about BIOSes. They are not something I play
with every day. I was just trying to persuade my old box to see a new
2TB SATA drive so it could retire into my loft to run mythtvbackend...
any help appreciated,
regards.
Jules
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