Just wondering in what way the BIOS is corrupted. I managed to create a customised Award BIOS that simply wouldn't work after I had fiddled with it. My impression is that if the BIOS not found the fall-back is to load the boot-block from a floppy. That did happen in my case.
It could be that you BIOS is still half-working so the fall-back doesn't occur. No guarantees, but you might get joy can follow a procedure such as the attached to temporarily disabled the BIOS (basically by shorting a pair of pins) by forcing a checksum error. Following is an example I found by googling for "short BIOS pins" - http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76346 (I don't think a USB connected floppy drive will work with this procedure). Regards, Martin [email protected] On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an old gigabyte motherboard GA-7VT300 1394 whose BIOS has become a > bit > corrupted. I need to reflash the bios, but the floppy drive doesn't work. > I've > trued pluging in other floppy drives all to no avail. Does anyone know how > to > resolve this? > > Currently using version F4 f the bios. > > Thanks > > Jon > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
