[DTP_1]

topic says all. My primary machine just screwed up, this is typed in from the other PC in the house namely my girl freinds.

By any luck, i will receive a new mainboard in about 21 days. SLOW yes, they s... , so, they aint getting another penny.

[Galemp]

DTP: Why not log in under your normal name and password? It's not machine-specific, you know.

[an0n]

Eh? The only way you can screw your BIOS is:

a) ****-up all the options and forget the supervisor password
b) send a big-ass current through the BIOS chip
c) physically damaged or dislodge the bios chip

[15thRampage]

there is another way to  screw it

-flashing you bios (upgrading it )

[DTP_1]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
DTP: Why not log in under your normal name and password? It's not machine-specific, you know.

yeah, but i REgged the HLP board, when you could not choose your own password, thus i got a random generated , something in the order of Adf43sD454, or something like that. Note this has nothing to do with my actual password. and since the operation system always remembered my password, i did not need to back it up. But i did make a backup, it is on the hard-drive mounted in the other PC. currently turned in for repair.

And in regard to the other "only way you can screw yourbios up".

Well, this is the second time my bios does this, and the PC was doing nothing at the time, but staing in a Pauce screen in the game SOF2. Then i had to give the dog its usual evening trip, and when i got back, the screen had frozen, i restarded, and the machine haults on D-led read out "bios sign on".

This machine has never been flashed so thats not the error. I think these Mainboards are born with the error, just my luck to trigger that fault twice.

I have succesfully eliminated all other possible error sources by transfering them over to this PC(orignial a XP 1600), namely the CPU(800 mhz Thunderbird), RAM. and the CPU is RAM s currently in this machine at which i sit now. Luckly it is not the CPU, since the warrenty on that has expired. but the mainboard bios did almost the same thing last winther so due the the laws of my country, i' m entitled to 1 extra year of warrenty, on the same piece of hard-ware. which by recent changes of law means i know got 2 extra years warrenty.

i' m sure i got no Virus, since i have always had Norton Antivirus with latest definitions updated. + a Virus always sort of announces its arrivel by making the system a bit screwy.

I know you mean well, but i have assembled around 20 PCs at this time, so i know what i am talking about. next mainboard is going to be Asus, never MSI again, since it has so many drawbacks & bios faults and in-compatability issues. Asus of-course has some to, but not as many.

just try and look at the forums of MSI COMPUTERS to see what i' m talking about.

When i get my machine back, i will return to the previos nick. but mind a can' t read my mail either since this machine has a very different email address installed, since it is my girl-friends PC. and i' m not going to install my mail here so she can sneak peak at my mail.

[kieran]

You might check out uniflash.  You may be able to hot flash and rescue it.  See http://www.pppr.sk/rainbow/programs.html

[DTP_1]

thx for the link, but i never get so far that i can initiate a program.

when ofline for some time like two hours, i can get 20-25 seconds into a boot, and then it goes dead. the same deal for when i enter the bios setup 10 secs after, it halts.

I checked all, switched GFX card, removed netcard, soundcard. of course to no effect.

it is a Bios or mainboard hardware failure.

[Kazan]

did you try and erase the cmos

[Fry_Day]

There usually is an option to re-flash a motherboard's BIOS if it's screwed. As a safety measure, if you insert a disk (not disc) with only a BIOS ROM on it, and hold some key on the keyboard (changes from mobo to mobo), the motherboard flashes it automatically, just for something like what happened to you. It happened to me with an old MSI MS-6119 (Intel 440BX chipset), and I flashed it fine after it was screwed.

[DTP_1]

Originally posted by Fry_Day
There usually is an option to re-flash a motherboard's BIOS if it's screwed. As a safety measure, if you insert a disk (not disc) with only a BIOS ROM on it, and hold some key on the keyboard (changes from mobo to mobo), the motherboard flashes it automatically, just for something like what happened to you. It happened to me with an old MSI MS-6119 (Intel 440BX chipset), and I flashed it fine after it was screwed.

i tried erasing/clearing the CMos, to no effect other than it halts when it detects the checksum is bad.

Regarding that ROM file. That is for AMI bios systems. This is a Award bios on a MSI board. there is to the best of my knowlegde no way to read in a Flash from a Floppy by holding down some "magical" keys.

The only way is to create a system disk then write something like this into the autoexec.bat

Flashbios.exe biosflashfile.v01

And since i never get past it loading command.com it haults.
i been searching for some "magical" keys to hold down in order to load in a file from floppy. but so far, no luck.

But it still has to stay under the 25 sec timelimit. and i dont think i can keep that deadline, since, what would happen if it haults half way trough the flashing.

it would really get fubared then.

[Fry_Day]

As if it isn't right now

[DTP_1]

Originally posted by Fry_Day
As if it isn't right now

i' m sitting on a different machine, namely my girlfreinds. which i payed btw, but it is still hers.

[DTP]

im back,

[Stealth]

Originally posted by DTP
im back,

ahhh :0

[Galemp]

Any chance of you fixing those FS1 fighters with their squad insigs now, DTP?