[ubuntu] Re: [OT] flashing mobo bios failed...

[Steve!]

I really should have read the line that told me what board it was!

http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html

Hopefully some info there that will help you. Your BIOS will look for a 
.bin/.img file on it's own though, so if the above link doesn't help, you 
need to know what the name of the file is that it looks for and rename the 
file on floppy to that.

Steve!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Watkins" <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:27 AM
Subject: [ubuntu] Re: [OT] flashing mobo bios failed...


> James Takac wrote:
>> Hi Michael
>>
>> On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:08:50 Mikael Backman wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I flashed the bios of one of my cumputers.. It failed..  Now it wont
>>> boot....  Is there some way to save the mobo  or is it just junk now?
>>> Its a msi k9vgm-v
>>>
>>> /Mikael
>>>
>>
>> You might be able to contact to manufacturer of the mobo and get a new 
>> bios
>> chip or if know someone with the same mobo could conceivably use their 
>> chip
>> to boot then put yours back and reflash. If none of that is available 
>> then
>> you may well need a new mobo. or if someone else's same mobo has died and 
>> you
>> can get a hold of it you may have a working bios chip in it?
>>
>> James
>>
>>
> The following info may be useful. I once messed up my bios when trying
> to install a graphics card.  I was advised to locate a jumper on the
> board, remove it for a few seconds and then replace it.  This had the
> effect of restoring my bios to factory settings and permitted me to
> recover the system.  Check out your motherboard's manual to find out if
> and where such a jumper exists. I don't know if it will work for a
> failed flash upgrade but it must be worth a try.
>
> -- 
> Graham Watkins
>
> "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows
> box, you just need to work on it."
> SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.
>
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