Urgent : Crashed ASUS P4G8X with aflash.exe

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olivier

Hello,

I have a big problem with one pc of my company, yesterday i tried to
update the bios of my P4G8X deluxe MotherBoard with Aflash.exe
found on Asus web's site (66 ko) and bios revision 1006 (the latest).

- I saved the old one on a floppy.
- after i flashed the new bios, but i had an error after the system
has
erased the old one.
- I tried to restore the old one without good result (aflash says that
my
bios is not a bios Asus !!!!!!)
Then i tried to reboot my pc to use crash free bios functionnaly to
recover a safe bios but my pc does'nt boot : Video OFF, No access to
floppy to try again !!!!! (i tried to clear cmos with jumpers : no
results
.....)


What can I do?
Is there a method to recover a safe bios ?
Why crash free bios function does'nt work ?

Thanks in advance ...

NB: Please remove _NOSPAM from email to answer by mail ;=)
 
olivier said:
Hello,

I have a big problem with one pc of my company, yesterday i tried to
update the bios of my P4G8X deluxe MotherBoard with Aflash.exe
found on Asus web's site (66 ko) and bios revision 1006 (the latest).

- I saved the old one on a floppy.
- after i flashed the new bios, but i had an error after the system
has
erased the old one.
- I tried to restore the old one without good result (aflash says that
my
bios is not a bios Asus !!!!!!)
Then i tried to reboot my pc to use crash free bios functionnaly to
recover a safe bios but my pc does'nt boot : Video OFF, No access to
floppy to try again !!!!! (i tried to clear cmos with jumpers : no
results
....)


What can I do?
Is there a method to recover a safe bios ?
Why crash free bios function does'nt work ?

Thanks in advance ...

NB: Please remove _NOSPAM from email to answer by mail ;=)
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Some other motherboard companies use two BIOS chips, and this
gives true CrashFree operation. Asus relies on keeping a portion
of the BIOS chip as Read Only and this "Boot Block" is supposed
to have enough intelligence in it to allow reflashing the rest
of the BIOS chip. If, during the erase operation, the portion
containing the "Boot Block" gets erased, and the rest of the
flash fails, then the board will be dead on the next boot.

As well, Asus on occasion releases an update for the BIOS,
where they also flash the boot block as part of the update.
This operation is basically negating the CrashFree feature
for that one update. Normally, the Boot Block code should be
"extra stable" and should never be changed, so the notion of
flashing it as part of a BIOS update kinda sucks.

Normally, I would suggest you visit www.badflash.com and get
a replacement BIOS chip. Since you are in Europe, maybe one
way to do this would be to buy a BIOS Savior and get it
programmed by the Vendor.

http://www.ioss.com.tw/web/English/RD1BIOSSavior.html

This post suggests the EEPROM on the P4G8X is the same as the
Abit Th7II. The IOSS compatibility list for Abit, says this
would be covered by the RD1-PMC4 model.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ev=/groups?q=p4g8x+savior&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en

This is a list of vendors who sell the BIOS Savior:

http://www.ioss.com.tw/web/English/WheretoBuy.html

This vendor offers a programming service, so they will load a
BIOS image into the BIOS chip inside the Savior before sending it
to you.

http://www.eksitdata.com/_uk/index.asp

I don't know how long this will take, but it might be faster than
getting a BIOS chip from someone like www.badflash.com.

HTH,
Paul
 
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