crushed under bios flash

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 10:03 PM

hi guys
this time i really need some so please read and comment

Under a flashing bios on old mbo system just crushed and left me with only a half bios
installed so now i only get a Award BootBlock BIOS
and that thing is stuck on scanning Bios image on hard drive (hard drive is disconnected)

here is a specs of old mbo and cpu
Gigabyte K8NS -Nforce 3 250 (754 socket)
and sempron 3000+

dose any one know is there a another way to restore bios (bios is directly connected on mbo dose not have its socket so i cant reprogram it or put similar one)

**Regeneration** · October 25th, 2007, 10:18 PM

* Try to copy the BIOS image file to a floppy/USB/CDRW.
* Try to use bootable floppy with Award Flash Utility on it
* Try to the put the included motherboard CD inside the drive during BootBlock message
* Try to check out this article, maybe it will help you.
* If you have some friend with Gigabyte K8NS motherboard around, you try hot-swap (While the PC is working, remove his BIOS chip and replace it with yours, and then reflash it).

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 10:23 PM

rege thanks and about a hot swap
i cant do that because bios chip is directly conected to mbo cant pull it out
have done that on few mbos but i cant do that on this one

i will try to put bios bin files on cd/floppy but it is stuck on scanning hdd
have left pc working for 24h to scan a hdd and still nothing

**Regeneration** · October 25th, 2007, 10:24 PM

Don't you have a backup BIOS chip? I think K8NS has one. Try to press the following keys on startup:

CTRL+ALT+ESC
CTRL+ALT+S
CTRL+ALT+INS

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 10:28 PM

it is 754 socket based mbo
and it dose not have back up bios

p.s.keys not working

**Regeneration** · October 25th, 2007, 10:34 PM

Grab some old Hard-Drive and put MS-DOS on it, and check if it boots.

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 10:38 PM

omg where will i now get msdos

**Regeneration** · October 25th, 2007, 10:45 PM

From bootdisk.com, Download MS-DOS 6 boot disk and deploy it on a floppy. Now boot with it on some other PC, use FDISK to create FAT partition on the old hard-drive, format it, put MS-DOS on it (type sys c

, and put the BIOS image file on it.

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 10:46 PM

will try

this will take time
i have 3 fdd´s and dont know wich one works

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 25th, 2007, 11:37 PM

its not booting anything