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by **Neb** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:45 pm

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but;

I was updating my BIOS yesterday, and my power decided to go out. =[ When I start the PC up, it just goes to a black screen. Help please.

by **liljim** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Well Neb, thats the absolute worse case scenario in bios flashing. Depending on the bios/board you may have a restore option though.

What is the the board info, I need to know who made it and what model/version it is. Also, what bios is it, Award, Phoenix, AMI etc.

by **Neb** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:54 pm

by **liljim** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:41 pm

by **Neb** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:37 pm

by **liljim** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:23 am

by **Neb** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:40 am

by **liljim** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:21 am

thats a good sign, that does mean that you have a bios protection that saved you. Now we have to repair it.

It can be re-flashed but it has to be done the old fashion way. The easiest method is using a floppy but im guessing that it found a cdrom drive because you dont have a floppy. If all you have is a cdrom, we have to look at getting you a bootable cd. Your also going to need the award flash utility and the .bin file that you downloaded.

If you have a floppy, or the means to temporarily add one, this will be alot easier. Let me know if you can do so but its probably going to be tomorrow before i can get back to you. Someone else might stop by and continue with this while im gone, never know.

by **Neb** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:30 am

by **Neb** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:58 pm

Okay, I had no luck finding a floppy.

by **venney** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:11 pm

lol buy one from the net, or a shop or borrow one from a friend

by **liljim** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:49 am

Neb, i was trying to figure a way to do this from CD but not having much luck. You really need to turn up a floppy drive, from there we should be able to fix it pretty easily.

by **Neb** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:46 am

Picked one up yesterday.

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