Interupted Bios Update, and fix wont work...

mojo_stevo

mojo_stevo

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This is long, and I appreciate any help... if you live in San Diego I'll buy you a beer for helping :D .

I have a brand new Intel D945psn, with a pentium D 820, a Gygabyte GeForce 6500, with a Pavillion 120GB HD (from my old HP... along with the two DDR2 256's mounted in a coolermaster. I put it all together, installed XP, and all my programs... everything worked. I installed the drivers that came with the 945... everything still worked. A suggestion was made that I should go to the Intel site and DL the latest bios update. So I did, I opened it, it did it's express auto extract, and prompted me to allow the computer to shut down and configure, in three minutes it would either boot, or need booting.

So I walked away, microwaved a corn dog, enjoyed it with some Kool-Aid, came back 8 minute later and started my computer.... as I pressed my toe into the power-up button, I noticed the little "busy" light was still on and said "oh S***"

Why did it take longer that 3 minutes to config?

So it powered up... everything went well untill it reached the windows "splash" screen where it loads (and has the little green night rider light bar at the bottom letting you know its loading) It only does 3 green marks, and then goes to a screen that basically say's you f'd up, would you like to start in Safe, or proceed in regular at the most recent working spot. Nomatter what option I choose it sends me to a blue error screen w/ white text saying that there is a driver problem and windows wont load, at the bottom of the screen it says STOP: PCI.SYS (0x00000007e... and so on and so on.

I was able to put back to gether my other computer and get web access, got the fix, but my computer (My HP, not the home build) would not communicate with the A: drive (even tried to communicate with it through the command promp, just says that the floppy controller reported an error.) I think it's the driver... how ever it show's up in My Computer, and blinks the green light). Or it just a old crap floppy drive that cant read anything (it worked before I took the HP/XP O.S off).

So I loaded the file on to a disk at another source. I put the floppy drive into my cursed computer (Mrs home built) loaded the disk, and booted in bios recovery config.
The A drive would chirp, and blink, but nothing ever happened, finally after 15 minute I powered down. I tried to boot her up in normal config, same problems... F9'd the defaults, same problems.

The HD is fine... I'm using it right now, as well as the mem. So I am fairly certain it is my 945.

Why wont the Fix work... is it my floppy drive? Or did I toast something on the Mobo?

Thanks again to any person who has answers or suggestions.
 
So you get past POST and start the loading of the OS?

Doesn't seem to be a BIOS error, if you pass POST fine then it's usually a software problem (or so they say).

Boot, run System Recovery Console (XP disk), run "fixmbr", that might do it. Can't hurt.

Also unplug all unnecessary devices/expansion cards. Remove extra RAM, run smallest module you have.
 
Hmm I think I tried that...

Thank you for your reply;

I tried the ole' start up disk, but as is was farmiliarizing itself and loading info my computer interupts it, stops it, and goes to the same error screen:eek:

I went through a step-by-step boot up, starting with just my CPU and Memory cards in, then tried with the H/D added, and still the same thing.

What is the POST, just the processor image, and setup jibber-jabber prior to the O.S loading? I am using the HD with the O.S fine on my H.P mother board. Is there maybe some funky files in my temp that is throwing the mobo off?

Do you think I should re install XP on my working comp, and then put the hard drive in my home-build and see if that works?

When you update your bios... does it save somewhere on the mother board? Or is it in the hard drive?
As miserable as this is, I love it, I am a recently converted computer nut, I just eat this stuff up... expensive mistake, but fun trying to fix it.
 
Try This... You said your a drive wont work. So take the HD of the pc that wont work, plug it in as a slave to the working pc.. Throw the fix tool on the hd andthen reload the same hd back into the pc. change the dir to the C: and run the program from the HD.
 
Trizoy said:
Try This... You said your a drive wont work. So take the HD of the pc that wont work, plug it in as a slave to the working pc.. Throw the fix tool on the hd andthen reload the same hd back into the pc. change the dir to the C: and run the program from the HD.
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That is a good idea, that way you know all other hardware on that PC is functioning.

BIOS info is saved on a BIOS chip, it can be replaced but you will have to order a new one, and the tool to remove it. Try Trizoy's method first though...
 
4W4K3 said:
That is a good idea, that way you know all other hardware on that PC is functioning.

BIOS info is saved on a BIOS chip, it can be replaced but you will have to order a new one, and the tool to remove it. Try Trizoy's method first though...
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I only have one hard drive, for the two computers, can it still work? Where is the bios chip located? The fold-out that came with my mobo does not indicate it. ... DIR?
 
im guessing that the two systems have different specs such as mainboard and cpu?
If so the hard drive cant simply be switched between the two units. If i missed out some detail here thats probably what i missed.
If they are different and you haven't reinstalled windows thats more than likely the cause of your crash as you get into windows.

I would take a look at the bios options and see what settings you have in there. Also its worth clearing the cmos memory by using the jumper on the mainboard or loading default settings in the bios. Its possible that the flash utility you used has added some settings that the old bios didn't support but the settings were not cleared by the flash utility.
As a last step you could always get into contact with the vendor of the mainboard and see if they can supply you with a new bios chip to replace your old one
 
Hairy_Lee said:
im guessing that the two systems have different specs such as mainboard and cpu?
If so the hard drive cant simply be switched between the two units. If i missed out some detail here thats probably what i missed.
If they are different and you haven't reinstalled windows thats more than likely the cause of your crash as you get into windows.

I would take a look at the bios options and see what settings you have in there. Also its worth clearing the cmos memory by using the jumper on the mainboard or loading default settings in the bios. Its possible that the flash utility you used has added some settings that the old bios didn't support but the settings were not cleared by the flash utility.
As a last step you could always get into contact with the vendor of the mainboard and see if they can supply you with a new bios chip to replace your old one
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Thank you for your suggestion. The home-built wont allow me to reinstall windows, but what I will do is reinstall in the the HP, then try it on the home-built, It's probably like you said, just too much going on at once. I'll try some things out. The jumper is on normal, I will put it on config and set defaunts again.
 
Well I was taking a look at the mobo, and it looks like the bios chip is soldered on, and is non-replaceable, so I will just contact Intel and see about getting a new board.

Oh well, live and learn.
 
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