BIOS HELP - Crazy question

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hammb

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I was upgrading the BIOS on my D945GPM Intel MB. They have a utility that starts in windows, restarts your pc, updates the bios, then launches windows.


My question is this. I was at the dos screen and it said updating bios.. And my power went out at my house. Now when I turn on the pc, there's no video, no post, nothing. The lights all come on. The floppy drive light fla
shes, then the CD light, then the floppy, then the cd. and round and round.


What should I do ? This has never happened to me before.

Thanks,
Brian
 
Im curios as to why you flashed the bios.
usually bios is flashed for a specific reason.
Update for bios to improve bios performance and
correct errors for hardware detection so something
is compatible. Did you read the reason why you needed
the upgrade and what was it, and why was it performed?

I wouldnt flash just to update. If you don't need it then
don't do it. its risky business if corruption occurs.
 
hammb said:
I was upgrading the BIOS on my D945GPM Intel MB. They have a utility that starts in windows, restarts your pc, updates the bios, then launches windows.


My question is this. I was at the dos screen and it said updating bios.. And my power went out at my house. Now when I turn on the pc, there's no video, no post, nothing. The lights all come on. The floppy drive light fla
shes, then the CD light, then the floppy, then the cd. and round and round.


What should I do ? This has never happened to me before.

Thanks,
Brian
Click to expand...

don't panic.... first read this:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/compBoot-c.html

done? ....ok, you must prepare a boot floppy disk from another PC

it must contain: an autoexec.bat file, the flasher and the old bios (or the new one)
on the autoexec.bat you write the commands to tell the flasher to (obvious) flash the bios....
check your flasher readme /motherboard manual / google for more help... I did that a long time ago and don't remember that much... if you have any questions just ask

good luck
 
Thanks

You're a genious. Here is how I fixed it.
I went to Intel.com, downloaded a recovery bios file, put it on a floppy, removed the bios jumper, and let the MB do the rest of the work. And it WORKS !!! Thank you so much. I've been doing this for years and never had this problem before. I guess you really do learn something new everyday.

Cheers
 
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