Yesterday was the day that the dreaded Chernobyl and other variants
activates.
Apart from trashing your disk, some of its variants also wipe out your bios.
Of course it runs only under winblows so this may explain why your computer
booted up fine under linux but keeled over and died under windows.
If this is the problem you MAY be able to get a new bios chip from either
award
or the motherboard manufacturer
Hopefully this isn't the problem
Cheers: and good luck...
Michael Perry.
R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pRiZnA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thu 27 April 2000 13:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Award BIOS problem
>
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I opened my system to see if I can disable
> my PnP modem somehow, I failed in that process,
> because it was a Winmodem (jumperless).........
>
> however something happened, that just failed to boot
> my PC,
>
> I started linux first, it was OK, then I started
> Windows and it just said "updating system settings"
> and FROZE, when I hit the reset key, nothing appeared
> on the screen after that, no beeps, nothing
>
> I checked the CPU (Pentium II) and memory on another
> board (its OK), I'm now suspecting the BIOS chip
> (Award PCI/ISA 686), any suggestions.........
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> pR!ZnA
>
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