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tinpis

24th March 2011 21:42

ARrrrrrgh ....death by BIOS

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Answer this....

GA-965P-S3
Unsolved Gigabyte riddle message (Non dual bios)

"Award BootLock Bios v1.0. Copyright 2000, Award Software Inc.
Scanning BIOS Image in Hard Drive..."

Googoolyed to death and NOBODY has come up with a fix :hmm:

mixture

24th March 2011 23:41

Did your Google's reveal this sort of thing ?

tinpis

25th March 2011 01:24

Yes ta...have spent a week on googly

http://www.katzy.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/a037.gif

Why would a manufacturer remove the ability to flash a BIOS?

Quote:

- Gigabyte removed the usual Award BIOS “boot from floppy” recovery routine – so the “easy” recovery of creating a boot floppy is out

- Every single thread I could find on this issue ended with “and I had to RMA the board” or “and we never fixed it”

Booglebox

25th March 2011 22:01

Isn't there a jumper you can set that flashes the BIOS back to default that is stored on ROM? Just a thought :)

tinpis

7th April 2011 20:25

I got a nice new programmed bios chip soldered the bugger on(SOIC SPI pretty simple job ) and away it doth run.

green granite

7th April 2011 22:10

Well done that man. :ok:

Mr Optimistic

9th April 2011 22:10

are all gigabyte boards like that ?

if so excellent reason to look elsewhere

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