Summary: I have a Toshiba Tecra M4 laptop that I am trying to repair. I have tried various things already (see this older thread for more details). But for t...
Summary: I did it once and it went OK. I think it was an old PCchips board. It suprised me because I didn't think it would work. But the fact it works OK s...
Summary: Hi everyone. I have an old computer that i'm trying to do something with. The motherboard is a Biostar M7VKQ. I only have the motherboard, the floppy,...
Summary: okay.... heh, my comp doesn't work i got a few xp bsod's saying something about a kernel error, then a win32k.sys error and that it was gonna do a phy...
Summary: Assuming that is the problem, are you sure the bios is on a chip that's not soldered to the motherboard? If it is socketed and not soldered you may b...
Summary: Hi, I need help!!! I fried my mobo, so can I fix my ASUS P4T mobo? Is there a jumper I can remove to fix the BIOS? What about the battery? can i re- f...
Summary: I`ve got a question on an essay i gotta write and i ain`t sure of the answer. can anyone help. The question is: Suppose that a PC`s BIOS chip failed w...
Summary: Ok, I just bought a custom PC and I am not able to enter teh bios for some reason. I also have a dell laptop which I use for other funtions and simpy ...
Summary: G'day, Most modern EPROM programmers will write FLASH(or EEPROM) chips these days. The BIOS chip is most likely of FLASH technology, so if you decide ...
Summary: When I boot the machine I can not see the hard drive and when I go to the Bios I can not see it listed. However when I load Knoppix I can see and acc...
Summary: I would NOT EVER update a bios, unless I was having some problem that I was convinced an update would fix. Unlike hdds, floppies, where you can re re ...
Summary: I have an ASUS P2B main board, and I'm SUPPOSED to be able to flash the BIOS, but the utility says "Flash Memory: Unknown", thus meaning that I can't ...
Summary: I have an Asus A7V266-E and I can't get to the BIOS. Pressing the delete key at start-up is supposed to enter BIOS setup, but it doesn't. I've tried e...
Summary: I build a computer 2 days ago, installed Vista, ect. and everything is fine. My motherboard is a XFX 750i SLI nFORCE motherboard. BUt for some reason ...
Summary: Instead of replacing the BIOS have you tried flashing it? I'm not sure if you can just replace the BIOS chip like that. Mattwizz3 : ) A7N8X-E Deluxe S...
Summary: Not so sure about that. I had HEARD, that some have successfully turned a computer on, REMOVED the bios chip from the computer whilst still on, put a ...
Summary: YOU WROTE: "Now when I turn on the pc's power, the fans all come on and the HDs do a short start-up spin, but the computer never actually boots" ====...
Summary: Thanks Jam. Both DIMM slots (I only have 2) do accept 512MB for a max of 1GB. My old 128MB has 8 chips on one side. What's weird is that the new me...
Summary: A new board because of a needed bios flash ??? No way! Look into the yellow pages for the next computer shops in your area and ask if they can do that...
Summary: If you can't find a D845GVSR with an emachines bios version, it's likely there is nothing wrong with the bios flash chip on your Uncle's mboard. If yo...
Summary: Can you see the bios screen? Hold down or rapidly tap F8 and see if it goes into Safe Mode. If it does, see if you can undo it from there. ...
Summary: Is your video from a card or onboard source? From the systems I repair the problem sounds like the video circuit. Do you have a second system to test ...
Summary: So i built a brand new PC yesterday and i'm having drastic problems. I have a Biostar M7VIG MOBO w/ Athlon XP 2000, 512 MB sdram, on board video. Ev...
Summary: this is hard cos you've changed so much can you see the bios on the monitor starting up? like is there any output from the graphics card? you could tr...