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Offline milnko

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Am I screwed? Need help!
« on: October 04, 2000, 11:36:00 AM »
I tried to flash my BIOS last night, and now it won't boot at all  
ABIT VA6
old bios: Va6_pg.bin
newer bios: Va6_uq.bin

I followed the instructions in the manual, to recover if failure occured and made a boot disk which included the need system files (command.com, IO.sys, etc.) plus created a autoexec.bat file with this line: A:\awdflash.exe Va6_pg.bin /py /sn /cc /cd /cks

But the damn system never even looks at the Floppy Drive.

So how do I get my BIOS reflashed with the old ones?

Thanks in advance.

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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2000, 12:08:00 PM »
milnko,...sounds bad.  Try jumpering the motherboard to reset the CMOS back to defaults.  Hopefully this will at least get your system booting again.

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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2000, 03:31:00 PM »
Yes, there should be a couple of contact pads you can short between to reset CMOS settings.  Hopefully this will make your floppy the first boot device.



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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2000, 04:15:00 PM »
Looking at the pdf manual on ur board, if you move pin 10 (just left of IDE inputs)from 1-2 to 2-3 position it should clear your CMOS settings. Hopefully the default has ur floppy drive enabled.

On another note - have you removed all cards except vid card from box and try to get to boot up screen where "DEL" will get you into the BIOS screen?

   

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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2000, 04:27:00 PM »
I found this too (I know it's not the same board):

Subject: Re: How to get out of wrong Bios settings on ABIT KT7?
Date: 2000/09/20
Author: G <gew-bowen@worldnet.att.net> <gew-bowen@worldnet.att.net>
     
 

Stevie Stevie wrote:
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> I'm still tweaking my new Duron/Abit KT7 combo.  Sometimes I make the
> wrong settings in the BIOS and the system won't boot.
[snip]

Been there, done that (many times).

Easiest is to power down (as you found out), power up for about 5 to 8
seconds, power down, power back up 5-8 seconds, power down a third time,
power up and usually the BIOS kicks down to default 600MHz setting so
you can go in and reset.

I found the "times three" sequence works 95% of the time.

G in Denver

 
Here they are talking about how the softmenu resets to a default cpu when you don't power up the box properly.. it may get you to the default screen where you can enable ur floppy...

Try searching under HotBot's discussion groups (newsgroup) under "reset abit bios".. alot of useful info popped up for me. That is where I look when I get stuck.. http://hotbot.lycos.com/usenet/
gl
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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2000, 04:29:00 PM »
Thanks guys, tried the CMOS clear jumper option, NO JOY.....gonna try removing all cards and leave vidcard in and try that..if all else fails I called the shop and ordered a ABIT BE6IIv2.0 today, gettin' hosed on the price me thinks ($140.00) but they say they can get it to me tomorrow...rather have the BE6 anyway, but kinda an expensive way to find out how to NOT tp flash BIOS.

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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2000, 07:53:00 PM »
Sometimes works if you hold down the Ctrl or Del or mebbe insert key and keep it held down while you power on the comp. Diff boards use a diff key tho but usually one of them.
With Abit boards holding down the insert key as you power on is supposed to force to default bios settings, always assuming you did not completely hose the bios chip.
I hosed one long ago and funnily enuf it was the first time i used the copy all files to floppy and run it from there.
Ever since i reverted to the tried and trusted method of booting into pure dos session (safe mode dos) and just doing it manually, i have never had another failure since.