BTW, just realised I typed the motherboard code wrong, its actually: GA-7VT600 1394
cheers 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
