I've spent many hours over the past few days reading about updating the bios waiting for my new Shuttle to arrive. The Shuttle was going to replace my Platinum XP as my home theater pc. I finally got it and first thing I wanted to do once I got everything installed and running was update the bios. I downloaded the bios from the Shuttle website and was all set. I booted from a Windows 98 CD and had just starting flashing the bios from a usb flash drive when my electricity WENT OUT!!! Once back on the computer wouldn't boot up. The bios only takes about 20 seconds to flash and I was almost through it. Now thats some bad mojo. I'm gonna have to pay to ship it back and wait probably more than a week to get a refund. So, I'm gonna have to put my old machine back together now. I'm not realy happy right now. I guess one good thing will come out of it. Mwave.com now has the SN45G in stock, they didn't when I ordered the SN41G2 last week, and its $10 cheaper. So, I'm gonna order that one as the replacement. So, maybe it worked out okay after all?
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: omg: thats the first thing u gotta guard against when you live in an area with power problems!
anyways its good that it didn't hurt you too much :thumb:Latest Microsoft Security Updates.
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Originally posted by asklepios: omg: thats the first thing u gotta guard against when you live in an area with power problems!
anyways its good that it didn't hurt you too much :thumb:
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Originally posted by amd_man2003If thats got an AMI bios, you could put the new bios an a floppy and rename it AMIBOOT and put it in start up, itll fix it Let it go for 3bbeps/5minutes and it should fix it. I dont know if that trick works with other bios makers though
and if the BIOS is toast how would you be able to boot off a floppy to repair it :?:
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Originally posted by minibubbaI've alwawys been under the impression that if the power goes out/comp reboots while the BIOS is being flashed that the BIOS is toast...unless you have a dual bios system like gigabye provides
and if the BIOS is toast how would you be able to boot off a floppy to repair it :?:
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Originally posted by amd_man2003If thats got an AMI bios, you could put the new bios an a floppy and rename it AMIBOOT and put it in start up, itll fix it Let it go for 3bbeps/5minutes and it should fix it. I dont know if that trick works with other bios makers though
According to this website, http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm, you can also reinstall the Award bios, which the Shuttle has, and restore the bios using a similar method.
Update: I just found this info on a website.
Modern motherboards based on Award BIOS have a boot-block BIOS. This is small area of the BIOS that doesn't get overwritten when you flash a BIOS. The boot-block BIOS enables recovery of a corrupted BIOS, and only has support for the floppy drive.
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Ah, time to bust out the PC book for once, its in here somewhere.
According to Soot Mueller's book, Generally there in any motherboard with a soldered on Flash ROM,there is a Special area of the FLASH rom, unerasable, non modifyable area for this exact purpose of restoring the BIOS in the circumstance of a misflash, or other extenuating circumstance which causes your bios to become corrupted
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Originally posted by amd_man2003According to Soot Mueller's book, Generally there in any motherboard with a soldered on Flash ROM,there is a Special area of the FLASH rom, unerasable, non modifyable area for this exact purpose of restoring the BIOS in the circumstance of a misflash, or other extenuating circumstance which causes your bios to become corrupted
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Originally posted by minibubbathat's a new one on me, I don't think I've heard that in any of the classes I've taken or books I've read...but it is entirely possible that I just missed it along the way :confused:
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Originally posted by minibubbathat's a new one on me, I don't think I've heard that in any of the classes I've taken or books I've read...
goes to the bookshelf and starts tearing away every bit there...die you silly things...dieLatest Microsoft Security Updates.
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Originally posted by amd_man2003your supposed to actually READ those books and not sleep during the classes. :laugh: :laugh:
According to Soot Mueller's book, Generally there in any motherboard with a soldered on Flash ROM,there is a Special area of the FLASH rom, unerasable, non modifyable area for this exact purpose of restoring the BIOS in the circumstance of a misflash, or other extenuating circumstance which causes your bios to become corrupted
although while that doesn't mean you are wrong, I'll stick with my thoughts that failed flash = :grr: until I find more proof to support your statement
in reading yet another book I came across this quote:It is critical that you do not power-down or reset the PC while the flash process is proceeding. Doing so will interrupt the flash process and leave your BIOS corrupt and unrecoverable. (Bigelow's TRoubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs; (c) 2000 )
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