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| Thread ID: 113109 | 2010-10-05 18:04:00 | Flashing the BIOS? | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1141988 | 2010-10-05 18:04:00 | I have a abit VA-20 motherboard and I think I got the right file and when I put it into a bootable floppy and double click on it, it says it's not a true 32 bit. I have the message "BIOS ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive A media. I did everything I can think of which is about 4 hours worth of troubleshooting and it still won't boot. So I'm trying to flash the BIOS with no luck. I'm not experience in this so any help would be appreciated. | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1141989 | 2010-10-05 19:24:00 | Is this the BIOS update you downloaded ? www.abit.com.tw va2013.exe? Follow this www.abit.com.tw |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1141990 | 2010-10-05 19:32:00 | Welcome to PF1 :) According to Abits site (www.abit.com.tw) the latest BIOS for the VA-20 was back in 2005. This page (www.abit.com.tw) has the guides on "how to do it". 4 hours worth of troubleshooting and it still won't boot. With the age of the Board, I wouldn't at all be surprised if its developed a fault. Can you even get into the BIOS to check whats currently installed (BIOS Version) ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1141991 | 2010-10-05 19:38:00 | I put the VA2010.exe but it won't boot and I can't get into the BOIS so I'm wondering if I should buy another cmos battery or just throw this thing in the garbage can but I would like to know if it can be fix just for knowlege if nothing else. I'm using a DOS boot disk with the Flash files on it. | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1141992 | 2010-10-05 19:40:00 | Follow the 2nd link, Waninui and I posted. Is that what you did? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1141993 | 2010-10-05 20:40:00 | BAD caps (almost certainly) sorry mate www.badcaps.net |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1141994 | 2010-10-05 20:59:00 | Follow the 2nd link, Waninui and I posted. Is that what you did? I did that and I can't get by "Insert system disk and enter" So it can't get a BOIS flash I think my last chance is to replace the cmos battery but I think this motherboard is toast. After 8 hours of working on it should be good enough and to think this is what I use to do for a living before I retired a decade ago. |
lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1141995 | 2010-10-05 21:01:00 | Not always bad caps -- I've had 2 customers boards fail over the last couple of weeks, and the caps look fine, no signs of bulging or leakage. One was due to a power surge we suspect, as they had one a day before it blew, and the other said they could smell a burning/hot smell just before it shutdown - the PSU is OK (tested) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1141996 | 2010-10-05 22:57:00 | I meant that board is known to have the bad caps issue . It may not be worth the hassles . . . Sometime the wrong bios can be on the website -been caught myself with that (HP 3000), pretty rare thou . You end up with a board that wont POST or wont function correctly . A heads up with some newer HP DOS based bios updates . The downloaded exe file is a self extractor except after extracting it actually runs the bios update without warning, bad if you are trying to make a bios update floppy on another PC Another quality untested product . :badpc: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1141997 | 2010-10-05 23:31:00 | BAD caps (almost certainly) sorry mate www.badcaps.net Rather a large jump to the conclusion.:groan: He is only try to flash the bios and he is not very experienced. |
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