Be very aware of static! :-) This is a very similar method to the one I used
to recover data off of ancient SCSI and MFM drives back in the day. LOL
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 08:12 pm, Joe wrote:
> DO you have access to another mainboard of the same make/model?
> If so here's what to do (it really is safe to do this)
>
> 1) Make a boot disk with the flash utility and the correct BIOS version for
> your board.
> 2) Remove the BIOS chip from the good board and place it into the BIOS
> socket of one of the boards with the bad flash.
> 3) Boot up the board with the new BIOS chip in it from the boot floppy you
> made in step 1.
> 4) Carefully remove the BIOS chip (PLEASE USE A CHIP EXTRACTOR) while the
> system is running (The BIOS code has already been loaded into RAM and the
> chip is not needed to keep things running) and place the chip with the bad
> flash on it.
> 5) Run the flash program and repeat process for other mainboard.
>
> Please be careful when applying this method as you could damage your
> mainboard with a carelessly placed metallic objects
>
> I have performed this method on many a board to revive a bad flash it
> sounds a bit extreme, but it works great!
>
> -Joe
>
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 12:17 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > We've got here a couple of (as far as we know) perfectly good DFI
> > motherboards (AK-74, AM-75) that got re-flashed with apparently the
> > wrong BIOS and now refuse to do anything except a very good imitation of
> > a paperweight. Does anyone out there have the facilities to reflash the
> > BIOS chip directly on one of these things? (I can provide chip numbers
> > or photos of the boards if you need to know what the chips are.)
> >
> > If someone can get them both working, you're welcome to one of them in
> > return. If you can only get one working, well, you can probably have it
> > since it's not really worth it to have to pay someone to fix just one of
> > them. And since we didn't pay much for them to begin with, I'd rather
> > find an individual who'd be willing to work on them for barter than take
> > them to a shop to get "fixed" since it'll undoubtedly cost more to fix
> > them than we paid for them.
> >
> > They are capable of taking up to 1.33Ghz Athlon (maybe higher) and 1.5GB
> > of RAM. They're nice boards and I'd rather give them to someone who can
> > get them working than just throw them out even if they were pretty
> > inexpensive.
> >
> > Please contact me off-list directly if you can do this.
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