Award Bios Problem

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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

Where to from here?

Thanks
 
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
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Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP
card was not seated properly.

Power off, open the case, and see that the card is seated
properly, including any tywraps or handles it may have.

Then, cross your fingers and hope that this was the problem.
As a faulty bios-flash may be a big problem :-)
 
Gerard Bok said:
Could well be, that after replacing the jumper, your VGA or AGP
card was not seated properly.

Power off, open the case, and see that the card is seated
properly, including any tywraps or handles it may have.

Then, cross your fingers and hope that this was the problem.
As a faulty bios-flash may be a big problem :-)
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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.
 
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.
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You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess
? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the
PC.

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.
 
Gerard Bok said:
You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess
? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the
PC.
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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.
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Found that link.
 
beach bum said:
Gerard Bok said:
You also tried to reset Bios with the keyboard sequence, I guess
? Award, usually holding the DEL key down while powering on the
PC.
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

Found that link.
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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GlowingBlueMist said:
Found that link.
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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Shall try that. I've been using the dos boot disc.

Thanks
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