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arthur dent
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bios no show

Post by arthur dent »

hi all,

i followed the instructions to update my bios with ru edition before loading w2k and something must have gone fatally wrong.

the power will come on but the system is dead. everything seem to go perfect while flashing the bios, i hit f1 and nothing.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanx.
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Post by Derek »

Did you reset the CMOS?

Hold down "INSERT" on your keyboard while booting.

And welcome to the message board! :)
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Post by InactiveX »

Hey Arthur Dent! I'm a H2G2 fan too. :)

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin, stop it!"

If your BIOS is badly flashed, you can get a display up by using an ISA video card, and the BIOS can be flashed again.
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Post by arthur dent »

thans for the reply guys.

i tried holding down the insert and that didnt help. i placed and isa card in that now allows me to boot. however; i cant not get back into the bios.

after some thought, i beleive i forgot to disable the video cache during the initial flash, so i dont know what the severity of this screw will be.

i can boot with a boot disk to the a:\, but i cannot seem to get back into the bios to confirm or deny that i properly disabled the video cache.

any suggestion would be great.
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Post by kuun »

hmm

have you tried to flash with an older version? or different version ?
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Post by arthur dent »

no i had not tried to flash it again with an older version. im just not sure if i should attempt a re-flash of the bios without being able to get back in and confirm the video & cpu cache are still disabled.

i guess it wont make it any worse than it is?
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Post by arthur dent »

SUCCESS!

i re-flashed the bios without being able to get back in and check the bios settings and viola, it worked.

lucky me.

so along and thanks for all the fish!
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Post by hyperspace »

arthur dent wrote:SUCCESS!

i re-flashed the bios without being able to get back in and check the bios settings and viola, it worked.

lucky me.

so along and thanks for all the fish!
Xcellent!
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arthur dent wrote:so along and thanks for all the fish!
"For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across---which happened to be Earth---where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog."
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Post by 24seven »

hehe, I remember watching that as a child... I loved it!!

Should really try and find it and watch it again.
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Post by kuun »

lol

thats funny
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Post by hyperspace »

24seven wrote:hehe, I remember watching that as a child... I loved it!!

Should really try and find it and watch it again.
What show? (very curious)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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