NOT FINDING BIOS FLASH FOR MY MOTHERBOARD

[grey_wulff1]

have had trouble installing video card, have tried everything and now even original card causes computer to lock up randomly. I formatted hard drive and attempted to reinstall win98, the reinstall process has randomly froze up. I got it installed finally but after using the pc for a few minutes the monitor kicks off and when i turn it back on it says video error. At this time the HD is locked. ALL THIS IS IN THE GRAPHICS CARDS FORUM BUT NOW IM TRYING TO FLASH BIOS AND HAVING SOME DIFFICULTY FINDING THE UTILITY FILE

i went to intels site, not sure if im looking for right ID to flash motherboard. my boot screen says its intel 440bx follwed by numbers 8671 the intle site has downloads for motherboards jn440bx, rc440bx and se440bx. My motherboard has ga-gbxc rev. 2.0. written on it in 2 places. I've been told by several people outside of this forum to flash the bios and my hd is completely formatted, so im going to do it. I cant seem to find MY bios. I went to www.supportforyourpc.com and put in serial number of my pc to get all the specs. It says atx using intel 440 chipset. but when i go to downloads there is no updated bios available. Am i looking for the wrong bios????????

[no1_vern]

Welcome to Techimo,

The bios is award? or phoenix or asus? Which?

As the computer is booting before it says intel 440bx it should say something about the bios. We need that info also to be able to help.

[grey_wulff1]

i found a flash file matching ga-gbxc which is written on my mobo on a site called www.gigabyte.com. perhaps i am looking in the wrong place.

[DoctorReno]

If I were you I would go to http://www.wimsbios.com/ Then go to utilities and under general download the Unicore BIOS Wizard. Run it and it will help identify your MoBo mfg and BIOS version. With this info we should be able to help you get the right BIOS and Flash utility.

[Nighthawk]

The ga-gbxc on your motherboard is a model number. Your board is made by gigabyte, so the BIOS you found there is most likely the correct one.

If your system is randomly crashing, DO NOT FLASH YOUR BIOS!! If a BIOS flash fails and your computer locks up, or if the flash locks up in the middle, it will leave your system completely unbootable.

Have you tried moving your video card to another slot? Tried a known-good one other than the two you've been using? The card itself or the slot might have gone bad.

[grey_wulff1]

my computer is only locking up in windows not at command prompt. I tried flashing bios and it loaded then came to a screen that told me where to put the loaded file. after doing that it told me i couldnt go on but that the 4 mb file was needed. ????? why would it need a big file like that.



after i did that , (the bios version did NOT update) windows loaded(it has randomly let me in). I loaded the latest driver for my original nvidia vanta vid card and it worked. I reloaded a few programs and it didnt freeze up for a little while. I reloaded my soundcard and after sound driver was installed it said restart, i tried and it said illegal error...it finally shut down and upon reboot a RUNDLL error said i was missing a startup file. Tried reinstalling windows 98 over top of itself to regain the missing file...now it freezes up over and over trying to reinstall windows...imback where i started.

I tride GF4 card in another computer and it loaded perfectly, the card is good.

I get to where i think a pattern is emerging and it starts making sense....then it goes wacky again. I thought it was a vid driver conflict, i still think my hardware is working ok, but somethign is conflicting.....i should buy a DELL.

[Omardeth]

hmmmm whats the gf4 card you are useing . is it agp or pci ? if it is agi and the card is an 8x card and can not work back to the 1x agp slot on your card . also if your sound card is in the first pci slot under the agp slot that might also be a problem being that the irq is shared .

[deba707]

Got my BIOS of Intel 440Bx motherboard corrupted. The downloaded bios for the motherboard does'nt seem to work. I would need a correct BIOS for this board.