Trying to upgrade an old Micron Millenia and having BIOS problems

"computernoob" <computernoob.3d04pl@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> I fixed this error on my Gigabyte K8n51gmf - the socket 754 micro ATX
> with onboard 6100 graphics and a 16X PCI-e slot for graphics upgrades.
> Basically the trouble started when I used Gigabytes @BIOS update
> utility. (NEVER USE WINDOWS FLASHING UTILITIES ESPECIALLY @BIOS) The
> program crashed writing rubbish to the BIOS! I left windows running for
> two days before rebooting to find it wouldn't boot or load the BIOS
> anymore.
>
> I was confronted with
>
> AWARD BOOTBLOCK BIOS V1.0
>
> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN HARD DRIVE
> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN FLOPPY DRIVE
>
> from another computer I downloaded the latest BIOS from Gigabytes
> website, copied that to the root of a hard drive I had around and tried
> to get the BOOTBLOCK BIOS to read from it. FAIL.
>
> Tried again with a floppy disk, formatted it in windows, then copied
> the BIOS.BIN file to the root of the floppy, rebooted the PC and.... it
> flashed the correct BIOS and worked!
>

Who says the humble old floppy is finished eh! Its still great for running
fdisk and that sort of thing as well.
--
Keith W
Sunbury on Thames
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:45 +0100, "Keith W"
<invalidaddress@invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:

>
>"computernoob" <computernoob.3d04pl@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>>
>> I fixed this error on my Gigabyte K8n51gmf - the socket 754 micro ATX
>> with onboard 6100 graphics and a 16X PCI-e slot for graphics upgrades.
>> Basically the trouble started when I used Gigabytes @BIOS update
>> utility. (NEVER USE WINDOWS FLASHING UTILITIES ESPECIALLY @BIOS) The
>> program crashed writing rubbish to the BIOS! I left windows running for
>> two days before rebooting to find it wouldn't boot or load the BIOS
>> anymore.
>>
>> I was confronted with
>>
>> AWARD BOOTBLOCK BIOS V1.0
>>
>> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN HARD DRIVE
>> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN FLOPPY DRIVE
>>
>> from another computer I downloaded the latest BIOS from Gigabytes
>> website, copied that to the root of a hard drive I had around and tried
>> to get the BOOTBLOCK BIOS to read from it. FAIL.
>>
>> Tried again with a floppy disk, formatted it in windows, then copied
>> the BIOS.BIN file to the root of the floppy, rebooted the PC and.... it
>> flashed the correct BIOS and worked!
>>
>
>Who says the humble old floppy is finished eh! Its still great for running
>fdisk and that sort of thing as well.


Hopefully someday EEPROMs will be cheap enough in ample
capacity such that a chip will have 2 copies of the bios and
a permanent routine to load the 2nd copy if necessary. A
few have instead put a 2nd EEPROM on boards but that goes
against the trend to make everything smaller and eventually,
a little cheaper.

"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:36:45 +0100, "Keith W"
> <invalidaddress@invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>>"computernoob" <computernoob.3d04pl@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:computernoob.3d04pl@no.email.invalid...
>>>
>>> I fixed this error on my Gigabyte K8n51gmf - the socket 754 micro ATX
>>> with onboard 6100 graphics and a 16X PCI-e slot for graphics upgrades.
>>> Basically the trouble started when I used Gigabytes @BIOS update
>>> utility. (NEVER USE WINDOWS FLASHING UTILITIES ESPECIALLY @BIOS) The
>>> program crashed writing rubbish to the BIOS! I left windows running for
>>> two days before rebooting to find it wouldn't boot or load the BIOS
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> I was confronted with
>>>
>>> AWARD BOOTBLOCK BIOS V1.0
>>>
>>> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN HARD DRIVE
>>> CAN NOT FIND BIOS IMAGE IN FLOPPY DRIVE
>>>
>>> from another computer I downloaded the latest BIOS from Gigabytes
>>> website, copied that to the root of a hard drive I had around and tried
>>> to get the BOOTBLOCK BIOS to read from it. FAIL.
>>>
>>> Tried again with a floppy disk, formatted it in windows, then copied
>>> the BIOS.BIN file to the root of the floppy, rebooted the PC and.... it
>>> flashed the correct BIOS and worked!
>>>
>>
>>Who says the humble old floppy is finished eh! Its still great for
>>running
>>fdisk and that sort of thing as well.
>
>
> Hopefully someday EEPROMs will be cheap enough in ample
> capacity such that a chip will have 2 copies of the bios and
> a permanent routine to load the 2nd copy if necessary. A
> few have instead put a 2nd EEPROM on boards but that goes
> against the trend to make everything smaller and eventually,
> a little cheaper.

What's wrong with a slate and a scriber, that's what I say, and a damp cloth
to erase it. Eeeh now when I were a lad.....
--
Keith W
Sunbury on Thames
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)