damn you for dying, stupid award bios

[S.D.Willie]

i got some sidework to do. i got a pentium 200(TX pro II) that died due to a defective bigfoot drive.(well, the drive died actually) i slapped in a maxtor 4 gig and threw win 98 on it. after about an hour of tracking down drivers for old, i mean old cards, i had it up and running.

all was nice.

except being the anal moron i am i had to fix the fact that the pc was not shutting down. all the options i tried didnt work. i knew doing a bios update would fix this.

i shoulda left well enogh alone. during the update it crashed even though i had the right bios image. it never even got that far.

now when i boot i get a steady series of beeps while the floppy sounds like its pulsing. floppy isnt bad either. tried removing the cmos battery too with no luck.

damn you to blazes you crappy tx pro II. you lost me a hundred bucks i was going to make. now the guy has a dead pc. its karma i tell you, because this was the first system board i ever had!

SD

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Just something to try, put the disk (with BIOS file) in and hold alt and f2 down then turn it on, hold them to till you see if it's reading the floppy.

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b. To recover BIOS:

i. Insert the floppy disk that contains a BIOS file and awdflash utility into floppy drive.

ii. Power on the system and at the same time press Alt + F2 until the system brings up Award flash utility.

iii. Remove BIOS disk when done and reboot the system
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might work, might not, but worth a shot, also try it with an ISA vid card if you have one.

[paramufay]

""damn you to blazes you crappy tx pro II. you lost me a hundred bucks i was going to make. now the guy has a dead pc. its karma i tell you, because this was the first system board i ever had! ""

Me thinks you are confused

This is not a mobo problem or a bios problem but instead is a problem created by ones-self.

[MRCOMPUTER]

Yup. You blew it - Plain and simple. You flashed it with the wrong file. Look at the version number next to the keyboard connector and get the right one this time. David Oakley of Amptron has written a great article on recovery procedures. It is posted on their bios download link...

www.amptron.com

[mlee97]

Someone may have an old board that you could swap bioses with,
aren't the cmos chips socketed on those boards?

I 'll look in my scrap pile if you want to go that route.

[S.D.Willie]

Quote:

Yup. You blew it - Plain and simple

i would take blame if it was the wrong bios, trust me.
i'll give that link a shot, thanks.

[uethello]

Hey, your pm box is full.

Anyway, are you using SDRAM or SIMMS or what?

[Chuckiechan]

Basically, if you can still read from the floppy (or cdrom) you still have a heartbeat....you ain't dead yet!!

[S.D.Willie]

that is true, and after more research i probably DID use the wrong file. 4 out of 5 bios's aint bad right?

i know i can restore the image by booting with the correct file but i DO need help identifying this system board. i looked around at motherboards.org too but of course i cant post what my bios string is since it wont post.

heres the board info:

PCI slots
3 ISA slots
integrated video
AT and ATX power connectors on board (top left)
4 simm slots
2 dimm slots (right above the simms slots)
bios chips says: Ambios
BH91619

another chip(just above the cmos battery) on the board has:
UMC
UM8670F
9737-AXS
M7Z120

its a pentium 200 board
i wish i had started this in the motherboard forum rather than here...........

SD

sorry bout the PM box...........
its clean now.
if i get this working Uethello , then you dont have to ship that out.

[Kuasimodem]

OK, the AMBIOS chip number came up with nuttin' I'm guessing that it's a generic CMOS chip with an AMI label on it.

The UM8670F chip is a United Micro Devices video chip.

Got any other numbers on the board?