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by tomw
Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:59 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: emachine T 2542 Imperial GV motherboard bios help
Replies: 6
Views: 20611

If it will 'let you format the HD', then it has recognized all the parts... or a bunch of them. I would suggest going into the BIOS settings when the machine starts to boot, and loading the optimized(not) settings. This is a base set of settings that should work enough to get your machine up. It is ...
by tomw
Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:51 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Bad flash on someone elses BIOS....
Replies: 14
Views: 10219

No OP is computerese for 'do nothing'. There are actual machine instructions that tell the machine to just twiddle its thumbs. They are used when you need a short delay, or when you want to pad out hand written code to get particular spacing for branches, etc, in the code. You might want to jump 20 ...
by tomw
Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:41 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: shuttle sv25 hanging
Replies: 5
Views: 4628

What is being suggested is to boot from the floppy disk. You should set the BIOS boot order to use the floppy drive first, then the HDD & CDROM. That way you are keeping the number of problem spots to a minimum. If the BIOS is corrupted, you would get an error stating so, or the machine would be bee...
by tomw
Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:28 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Bad flash on someone elses BIOS....
Replies: 14
Views: 10219

When I posted, I hadn't read and digested.... I'd add a 1/4M of binary zeroes to the known good bios file. If not that, then the NO-OP instruction hex equivalent. Couldn't hurt to spin wheels for a while, eh? Given that the BIOS is supposed to occupy the lower half of the eeprom/flash memory. Will u...
by tomw
Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:17 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Boot Block BIOS flash doesn't work
Replies: 48
Views: 95256

ami boot block ...

Hello all, I have an Elitegroup L7VMM3 that didn't like the 160G Seagate ATA I installed. So, dummy that I am, I tried to update the BIOS, thinking that something may have been changed to recognize larger disks. Poking around in a DOS window, I ran aminf342.exe /H and was able to figure out that I c...
by tomw
Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:56 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Bad flash on someone elses BIOS....
Replies: 14
Views: 10219

Somewhere on the web

Loady, I think I saw a similar problem posted on the FAQs at the ECS site: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ when I was searching there. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's worth a shot. tom I just checked. the "General FAQ" question #4 has a possible solution, though I don't know where you get the .exe they specify... ...