A7V133-VM mainbord wont start after BIOS upgrade (1004 ----> 1009)

[LG]

Hi all,

After flashing the Award BIOS (1004 ->1009) using AFlash.exe I rebooted an
everything just hangs.
HDD and POWER led lites. Pressing reset seems to restet as the LED's on the
CD-ROM flashes...


Anyway, now when I boot up I get nothing but disk activity and a blank
screen. I've tried changing the jumper settings on the motherboard from
"JumperFree" to "Jumper Mode" as well as temporarily removing the CMOS
battery, but neither have helped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Leif Gunnar

 

[LG]

I'm realy ****ed !!!!!! owerlooked the -VM ending when i dowloaded the BIOS
as the newest ver for this Mb is the 1008 version........ jiiiiiiises!!!

I need to backward downgrade the bios then, but HOW ????

Thanks again

Leif Gunnar

 

[dgk]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:00:39 +0200, "LG"

You can either do a hot flash, if you have a working A7V133 somewhere
nearby, or you can use one of the replacement services like
BadFlash.com.

The hotflash involves installing a bios from another computer, booting
yours using that one, and then replacing yours while it is running
with the bad one and flashing it now that it booted.

 

[LG]

Tnx Mr.

I look at the 1008.awd file and see it's 256 Kb myebe i could use the E-PROM
burner and flash it there ???

 

[Karl]

Hi all,

After flashing the Award BIOS (1004 ->1009) using AFlash.exe I rebooted an
everything just hangs.
HDD and POWER led lites. Pressing reset seems to restet as the LED's on
the CD-ROM flashes...


Anyway, now when I boot up I get nothing but disk activity and a blank
screen. I've tried changing the jumper settings on the motherboard from
"JumperFree" to "Jumper Mode" as well as temporarily removing the CMOS
battery, but neither have helped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Leif Gunnar

As suggested you can try the hot flash method if you've got a trusting
friend who doesn't mind the risk. There are a few BIOS flashing services
around, however if there is an Asus office in your country it may be just
as cheap to contact them direct for a replacement. Here in the UK, they
charged me £5 for a replacement chip for my A7V8X, which didn't seem too
bad.

Karl

 

[MalcolmSKLS]

As suggested you can try the hot flash method if you've got a trusting
friend who doesn't mind the risk. There are a few BIOS flashing services
around, however if there is an Asus office in your country it may be just
as cheap to contact them direct for a replacement. Here in the UK, they
charged me £5 for a replacement chip for my A7V8X, which didn't seem too
bad.

Karl

When I upgraded from Bios 1004 to 1008 the same thing happened, the
motherboard wouldn't restart. I took the bios backup battery out,
waited a few minutes, shorted the solder pins to clear Cmos (next to
battery) and the motherboard restarted OK. By the way where did you
get Bios 1009 from, Asus website has 1008 as the latest.
Malcolm

 

[Eric P.]

Hi Malcolm,
We are discussing a different type of A7V133 motherboard here with a
different Bios.

 

[LG]

Hi Malcolm,
We are discussing a different type of A7V133 motherboard here with a
different Bios.

I have now tried to flash the BIOS chip in the Labtool-48. Programing vent
ok but the MB does't start anyway.
I'm thinking now that th MB is dead, as the system only got like 12 colurs
or so :s

The 1009 ver. i got from the plain A7V133 BM site not the -VM

Tnx for every replies regarding MB

Leif Gunnar

 

[Eric P.]

The latest A7V133-VM Bios is 1008.
Looks you programmed a wrong Bios.
Don't know the A7V133-VM myself and don't know you can reprogram it's
Bios using a Labtool-48 or not.

Anyway the right Bios you can find:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A7V133-VM&Type=BIOS&SLanguage=en-us

Maybe you need some assistance:
http://www.bios-flash.dk/index.html