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| 2921.1 | URL poiner | STAR::DZIEDZIC | Tony Dziedzic - DTN 381-2438 | Fri Feb 14 1997 10:26 | 6 |
| Start looking at http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/hardware/mb8433uud.html
for information on that motherboard.
If you pulled the BIOS chip with power on you likely ruined the chip.
Otherwise you MAY be able to recover the BIOS by reprogramming it;
I believe it is a flash upgrade chip.
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| 2921.2 | | WBC::GOODEN | Gene Gooden | Fri Feb 14 1997 11:17 | 18 |
| I have built four systems with this board using the AMD 133 chip. It has
a nasty habit of flashing its BIOS into oblivion, all by its self. Good
thing I have a programmer to rebuild the rom. On one friends machine I
have had to restore the rom three times, we leave the programming supply
voltage jumper off now. (Note: with it off you will not be able to update
the ESCD).
I have found if you put in a ISA video card it may tell you that you
have a corrupted BIOS. When the BIOS is toasted you will not get the
PCI configured (no PCI video). There seems to be enough smarts to output
a message about corrupted BIOS to a ISA video card.
If it is blown you probable will not be able to restore with the flash
utility. This requires pulling the rom out and dropping it into the black
box. Or take the board back to the vendor. (If need I can fix this.)
regards,
gene
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| 2921.3 | | SOLVIT::ALLEN_R | on the point | Fri Feb 14 1997 12:36 | 15 |
| I did not have it turned on when I took out the ROM. Probably did
something else. And I did discover the gweep page yesterday and have
begun to look around. Attempted to connect to the Biostar page but did
not have any luck with that. They appear to be building it now.
I have an AMD 133 installed too. Nice when it runs. Place I bought
it all from has no love for SCSI so he won't touch it again. This is
the second time and he did fix it the first time. I guess he feels I'm
on my own since I use SCSI stuff.
I use a PCI video card. I pulled all the ISA stuff and gave them along
with the AHA-1540 to my son to use on his machine. He is learning a
lot starting with that.
so am I. :( maybe I will have to go with a PCI SCSI card??
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| 2921.4 | possible scsi conflict | CPEEDY::BRADLEY | Chuck Bradley | Fri Feb 14 1997 12:53 | 10 |
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re .0, this is no help on your current problem, but might
help when you get back to ground zero.
if your cdrom drive is scsi, the card that controls it and your new
scsi card are clashing. take out the card that came with your cdrom
drive and hook the cdrom drive to the scsi card, taking care to obey
the termination and length rules. you may also have to change a
jumper on the scsi adapter. the details are in here somewhere.
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| 2921.5 | | BRITE::FYFE | Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. | Fri Feb 14 1997 13:58 | 9 |
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Why not just get a replacement BIOS chip.
Shouldn't take but a week through the mail
or bring it to your vendor and have him swap it
out.
Once the new on is in and configured, pull the
flash power jumper and have fun.
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| 2921.6 | | SOLVIT::ALLEN_R | on the point | Fri Feb 14 1997 14:04 | 3 |
| where and about how much? I am considering doing that but I really
don't have much money and I'm wondering if that will fix it. .3 has
set me thinking now.
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| 2921.7 | | BRITE::FYFE | Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. | Fri Feb 14 1997 14:21 | 8 |
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Each board has it's own BIOS config. Ask the vendor if you can
swap and/or buy a BIOS chip. It is easy for him to ship back
boards with bad bios to his supplier.
You might try the Awards web page as well.
.
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| 2921.8 | | SOLVIT::ALLEN_R | on the point | Fri Feb 14 1997 15:30 | 3 |
| it is back to beeping at me. I'll try.
darn pc. good thing i don't have to have it.
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| 2921.9 | Maybe? | SSDEVO::ASTOR | Subsystems Engineering Support | Tue Feb 18 1997 18:05 | 8 |
| .2 (Gene)
Could you have a look at note 2879. Could the jumper you mentioned
be the cause of the problem described in this (my) note?
I'd be greatful,
Kurt
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| 2921.10 | | WBC::GOODEN | Gene Gooden | Thu Feb 20 1997 16:15 | 12 |
| Kurt,
Every Biostar 8433 UUD motherboard I have built had Award BIOS not AMI. I have not seen any versions of
AMI BIOS for this board on any of the web sites, that support this board. I did have a PnP sound card in
one of the machines I built, but I had no problems with it except I could never keep the ide port on the
card from configuring. I have never had to run ICU, though I brought it down fron somewhere and played
with it a little once.
As to your question in 2921.9 this is not the same problem. Rich's bios is shot, he is shipping it to me
and I am going to reprogram it for him.
gene
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| 2921.11 | .10 within the lines | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Fri Feb 21 1997 09:46 | 17 |
| <<< Note 2921.10 by WBC::GOODEN "Gene Gooden" >>>
Kurt,
Every Biostar 8433 UUD motherboard I have built had Award BIOS not AMI. I
have not seen any versions of AMI BIOS for this board on any of the web
sites, that support this board. I did have a PnP sound card in one of the
machines I built, but I had no problems with it except I could never keep
the ide port on the card from configuring. I have never had to run ICU,
though I brought it down fron somewhere and played with it a little once.
As to your question in 2921.9 this is not the same problem. Rich's bios is
shot, he is shipping it to me and I am going to reprogram it for him.
gene
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