Comments on: Undo Award BIOS Flash and Recovery

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:53:57 +0000

Well… I managed to solve my problem by purchasing another bios chip and copying it to the original one, by hot-swapping.

By: Aeomer

Aeomer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:46:25 +0000

1. You create the boot disk on another PC (Doh!)
2. The Award / Pheonix Award bios has a small part that is NOT flashed when a bios upgrade takes place. This bit of code is what starts the boot floppy.
3. If the protected bit of the boot code is also corrupt then you will need to contact a service centre or do a ‘hot-swap’ of the BIOS chip - if you don’t know what ‘hot-swap’ means then you are not in a position to do it.

By: cmapocma

cmapocma — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:03:30 +0000

Unfortunately, my problem was solved only via service center…

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:36:01 +0000

Yeah! What about not being able to boot?
The recovery mode doesn’t allow anything but load a file from a floppy disk.

By: cmapocma

cmapocma — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:38:47 +0000

I am interested in question asked by Adrian Staicu. I created 2 bootable floppy disks (one had autoexec.bat with 1st variant and another one - 2nd, deleted unused files except io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com) but nothing happened when I inserted disk and switched on computer…

By: Adrian Staicu

Adrian Staicu — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:14:30 +0000

Hi.

You say “restore or recover the BIOS that no longer works or boot up the system” and then “Make a bootable floopy disk.”

Can somebody explain to me how you can use a bootable floopy if the system no longer boots up ??? Is there a way to force this ???