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| 175193 | 2003-09-14 09:10:00 | Hi I have recently fried my BIOS trying to put a boot splash image onto it using one of the manufacturers windows98 wizard interfaces. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7VKML and the bios is non-removable as it is soldered onto the board. When trying to boot it reboots about 2 times then repeatedly lets out an 8-tone sound code until turned off. Monitor never turns on so no VGA activity. Any help would be much appreciated |
M@TT (149) | ||
| 175194 | 2003-09-14 09:20:00 | Your only hope is to read up about boot block and see if you can re-flash the bios with its original file (I suppose you did save the bios bin file??) A Google search will tell you about boot block, this is one site (www.pcguide.com) It only makes sense to playwith bios codes if you have a switchable dual bios, either as built onto the board or using a piggy-back plug in bios like Bios-Savior, an excellent device for experimenting with customising the bios. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 175195 | 2003-09-14 21:03:00 | Have a check through the motherboard manual... you may have the Dual BIOS feature on your motherboard. You may be able to swithch to the backup BIOS chip. Sometimes clearing the CMOS will erase anything extra added and let you POST... | wintertide (1306) | ||
| 175196 | 2003-09-15 04:52:00 | sadly i dont have duel BIOS. However, the beep code thing on the net says the error is accuring at the Display memory read/write test. Anyone have any idea how to fix this or even shed some light on what this process is? thanks |
M@TT (149) | ||
| 175197 | 2003-09-15 05:03:00 | Is it an integrated video system? If so, you could try disabling it (often a jumper) and putting in a PCI VGA card. I'd definitely try clearing all the BIOS settings (again a jumper?), and letting it try to configure itself. | Graham L (2) | ||
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