Summary: Would be easier to reflash the eprom in an external burner. Pulling the BIOS or any chip from running equipment is asking for trouble. Leave it be. ...
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: First of all typing in all caps is considered shouting and is rude. The only way to change the language displayed in the BIOS screens is to flash the ...
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: it wont even POST, jam. It beeps and seeks a floppy disk IMMEDIATELY after being turned on, i am assuming so it can re-flash itself. however i downloa...
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: Well, I'll put it this way--I've got one, used to be good, useable motherboard here that's DEAD after an attempted flash. It killed (or corrupted) th...
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: Yes, it appears something went wrong. I was assuming there's nothing physically wrong with the bios flash chip - maybe there is something wrong with i...
Summary: fine the bios clear jumper on the main board and short it. Put it back to normal. Your bios is now clear and you can enter it to reconfigure the pas...
Summary: Good luck with that endeavor. Advertising is everything. Even here, folks ask about Celeron VS Athlon. If that isn't caused by advertising, I don't...
Summary: I just recently got this PC to accept an IDE hard drive using an Acculogic sIDE ISA card and a Western Digital 43 MB drive. I've been trying to get th...
Summary: All I got with the computer was w98 installation package. The floppy drive never spins now, so I'm not sure it would matter what disk I put in. Now I...
Summary: No offense intended...but judging from your questions, you're not very knowledgeable about computers. I suggest you do some in-depth research on how t...
Summary: i think you mean a ps2 to serial adapter? the problem with serial devices is ..you need a driver on the DOS level to make it work ..i do not belive th...
Summary: Today, I went to turn on my computer, and it wouldn't (and cannot) load after the BIOs screen. I attempted to restart via the button on the my compute...
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...
Summary: Without the BIOS chip your PC would be useless, it would just be an expensive paperweight That's why when people update the BIOS they have to be caref...
Summary: Hi, First...I am no expert. Rule! you can't fix what is not broken. Flashing the bios is done if new hardware won't work under present bios. If done i...
Summary: Petit Jean was a bit quick to say replace the board. there are several things you can check before you need to replace the board. check to see if th...
Summary: HP Pavilion Desktop PCs - Updating the BIOS for Windows 98 Computers This document includes detailed procedures for checking, downloading, and upda...
Summary: Ok, I will do the reset, wotn hurt, I am not afraid of going into the bios. Have done several ram tests, all good. For a thorough scandisk on a 12gig...
Summary: about a month ago i screwed up my system, turning off the the power switch while the computer was still on. 1st it reported that XP could not repair i...
Summary: Tried installing new video card GeForce4 64mb, had it in there turned my comp on but then i forgot to plug in the mouse...while it was updating system...
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