Summary: I have an Award BIOS that seems to keep getting corrupted. My question is not why this is happening, but I wanted to know can I just replace a BIOS ch...
Summary: i have narrowed the issue with the motherbaord in the previous post to a corrupted BIOS. now i desprately need a new BIOS chip: Award PCI/PNP 686 plea...
Summary: The other day my pc, while not being used, froze. I had to reset it, but it never finished rebooting. Instead I got a bad post test beep (I've check...
Summary: hi all hardware gurus 2 months ago i flashed my bios with the wrong bios file and screwed my laptop, wouldn't start sent it back to the maker for r...
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: 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 once saw this exact problem on an amd based system (I think it was an athlon 64 3300+ or something similar). The only thing that got it to boot was ...
Summary: Your Advanced settings look good. You should enable PCI IDE Busmastering in the PnP screen. Something that I was thinking about is this. Do you know ...
Summary: The short BEEP signifies the end of the POST sequence, not that start. Then the BIOS start setting up the hardware ready to load the OS. To be quite ...
Summary: I picked up & old Socket 7 mobo (MTI R534G) & it still had the original BIOS. I went to the MTI website, downloaded the latest BIOS version along with...
Summary: I used utilities to identify Bios and chipset on a PC I inherited from someone. The BIOS info is AWARD 01/26/2000-693-596-ITE86-2A6LGJ1HC00 Jetway 99...
Summary: hello everyone, I have another socket A mobo i can't really get around to identify. From what I've been able to gather so far, it's a Jetway. the in...
Summary: A bios update cannot increase the max fsb of the mboard or the mhz the cpu runs at if the main chipset is not capable of it. Look at the specs for the...
Summary: Hi, If no luck on the board - During boot watch for the BIOS Maker and Designation at the left bottom of the screen. Happens real soon. When you see i...
Summary: Well, thats some really good answers. It still kinda ticks me off, When you have one board that is identical in every way, and probably manufactured b...
Summary: Never had a MB with a dual BIOS chip but I believe there is a way to switch over to the other BIOS without removing it. Thats the purpose of having t...
Summary: To make a boot disk that will not load and drivers or anything open a DOS prompt. Start ---> run --> command Insert a blank disk in drive A. Type in f...
Summary: When bios flashing goes bad sometimes there's no easy recovery. IF the bios chip is a plug-in type you may be able to get a replacement. Otherwise you...
Summary: Thanks for the suggestions. No, I cannot boot at all, if I don't place a disk with a BIOS flash program in the FDD it just sits at the "BIOS damaged....
Summary: Hi, I need to remove the bios chip from my sony vaio PCG-FX602 after a bad bios update and install it back again newly reprogrammed, can someone pleas...
Summary: >> i'm trying to update my motherboard bios(just for experimental reason), << Bad idea. The BIOS is not the place to experiment. Get it wrong ...
Summary: This system uses a Tabor 3 motherboard. The bios is 4W4SB0X0.15A.0017.P12 My C drive is 20 GIGs. I have used norton ghost to copy my C drive to a ne...
Summary: I needed to repair a flash bios that I did to one of my boards by using a different board to change the bios software so I can POST again on that othe...
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