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Old 18th Jul 2002, 22:45
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ORAC
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fobotcso,

The following is the Microstar recovery procedure for the Award BIOS on the 6382 ( I am presuming it is the award BIOS):

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BIOS Recovery Feature

For AMI BIOS

Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a floppy disk. e.g. Rename A569MS23.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM

Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system and press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. It will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive.

When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk and restart the computer.

For Award BIOS


Make a bootable floopy disk
Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin

Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes out)

Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.

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But from his comments ("I have the original BIOS on a floppy, but trying to rename it as the new file and hope that the Autoexec.bat might install the old one has proved fruitless."), it looks like he has already tried that and the board won't load/boot the floppy drive. in which case, there is no way into it.


The two beeps do not match either company's normal BIOS check codes:


Beep Codes

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