Hi Martain, I'm not sure what it is that is corrupted with the bios. It fails the check sum, and is a pain to boot, but once grub loads succesfully the computer is fine. The bios flashing options availabe - that I can see, only allow for a traditional floppy drive. I was wondering if someone knew a way around that.
My main problem seems to be that the floppy drive system doesn't work. I've tried multiple floppy drives and floppy disks, anyone have any ideas where the problem could be? Thanks Jon On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:22:05 pm Martin Visser wrote: > 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
