"beach bum" <sunshine&(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Gerard Bok" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:54:23 -0600, "beach bum"
>> <sunshine&(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>"Gerard Bok" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:09:37 -0600, "beach bum"
>>>> <sunshine&(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>>>>Hopefully this is a good forum to post this and someone can help.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tried to flash the bios on this Award 6.00PG and now get one long beep
>>>>>and
>>>>>what appears to be two short beeps. Nothing on the screen. Reset bios
>>>>>jumper
>>>>>was tried but that didn't work either. The board is a M81DC-X, PII
>>>>>Celron
>>>>>500. 256 Megs of ram.
>>>>>The oLD bios string was 02-14-2000, i810-W83627HF-6A69MDL9C-00
>>>>
>>>> Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP
>>>> card was not seated properly.
>>
>>>This has on-board video. There is an AGP slot but never ever used it. I
>>>don't have a ISA or PCI video card to test with.
>>
>> You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess
>> ? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the
>> PC.
>>
>
> That's how I accessed the bios setup before the flash. Now it won't do
> anything other than try to read the A: drive for a bit. With a dos boot
> disk it would ask for date and time input and hoping that's where it was
> stopping now I tried the enter key, but obviously that's not where it's
> hanging.
>
>> Next thing I would suggest is to borrow an AGP card and see if
>> this shows anything.
>>
>> Or read http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm and
>> maybe pick up some hints.
>>
>
> Found that link.
>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Gerard Bok
>
Do not give up hope yet,
The fact that the computer is still trying to read a floppy diskette may be
the motherboard still trying to locate a valid flash loading boot floppy and
flash.
On a different board my flash update went wrong similar to yours.
Mine proved to be a defective boot flash (or wrong file, I never did
determine which) download on my boot floppy.
I downloaded a new copy of the flash and flash loading program. After
creating a new boot disk with everything I was able to flash the board
successfully the second try from the floppy drive.
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