[plug] Flash ROMS for Abit Mainbords (BH6)

[Michael]

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hunt <Michael.J.Hunt at usa.net>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, 4 January 2000 23:51
Subject: [plug] Flash ROMS for Abit Mainbords (BH6)


>Hi ya all,
>
>Wanting to get some long overdues work done on my Home PC i decided to
>do a flash upgrade of my BIOS in order to sort out some ATA66 issues I
>was having (Hot Rod add in card). The long and the short of it is that
>after doing the bios upgrade I rebooted my machine and discoverd that it
>was nbo longer working. It appears that in my haste I had downloaded the
>wrond BIOS updates (BX6) and flashed that on to my chip (stuppid I
>know).
>
>From what I have read I believe I can get around the problem by
>replacing the flash ROM with one that does have the correct BIOS. Does
>anyone know where I could possibly get a replacement ROM from ? I know
>this is not totally Linux related but we usually do this sort of theiong
>becuase we are linux bods (and I suppose human as well). Or any other
>alternatives ????
>
>Michael Hunt

If you have access to an old un-accelerated ISA video card, you might 
be able to recover your BIOS. Remove all cards and drives from your 
system, except for the ISA video card and the floppy drive. Then try 
to boot from a system disk (a bootable floppy with only the flash 
programs and corresponding BIOS binary). If you are able to boot to 
the floppy, you should be able to recover it.

Mike