I need a BIOS reprogrammed

Beelzebub

I need a BIOS or EEPROM reprogrammed.

Any recommendations? Anyone here do it?

Thanks in advance.

Anti

No one here that i know of, www.diystreet.com has a efw people that are able to do it. I have a custom one form my nf4 board, not very stable though.

Beelzebub

Anti wrote:

No one here that i know of, www.diystreet.com has a efw people that are able to do it. I have a custom one form my nf4 board, not very stable though.

You mean: http://www.diy-street.com/

It's the infamous 4 LEDs of death that's afflicting my machine.

It could be the battery but I think it's the CMOS.
I've cleared the CMOS again and removed the battery and will try it again in the morning, maybe it'll be ok.
Otherwise I might give these guys a try, they seem reasonable.

http://bios-repair.co.uk/bios/eeprom.htm

Thanks.

Anti

Yep, thats what i meant.

Cuddlesworth

What type of board is it? I think I have a dfi nf4 bios chip lying around.

po0k

Aye, swap with a working chip, power on.
Then a) boot up the bios flash and b)hot-swap the 'bad' chip (or vice versa - confirmation anyone?) should do it.

That is if it's a socketed chip.

Anti

Depends on the board, i know it works with asus and gigabyte boards, wont work with my dfi one though

Beelzebub

krazy_8s wrote:

What type of board is it? I think I have a dfi nf4 bios chip lying around.

Got a NFII UltraB, Not sur if it would work, might be able to boot flash it though if its the same.

The chip is a Winbond W39V040AP

Anti

I dont think the bios on the nf2 will be compatible with a nf4. like i said try dit-street.com you will get a much better answer there.

Beelzebub

http://www.flashbios.org/ is another one and
I've dealt with these guys before, specifically Arthur Keerkmeester.
They only use Paypal now so I won't be dealing with them unfortunately.

I have ordered one from this crowd though and I hope they're ok:

http://www.eksitdata.com/

A bit expensive but when you're stuck...

Beelzebub

And DFI are sending me one FOC.

So I will have a couple of spares to play with.

Beelzebub

Got the BIOS from DFI in NL but now all I'm getting is the Video Bios information at top of the screen, with blinking cursor beneath.
No keyboard response or speaker response.
1 LED the first one I believe stays lit. After cycling through the others.
There are only 2 things I haven't done:
1: is to remove the CPU and reseat it again.
2: is to remove the CPU and try another one - obviously this is the last resort.



I've been in contact with DFI again and they say that if nothing else works then the board must be gone...I know that these boards do die, but I hope not this one...yet.

Does anyone have any experience of that problem here?

TonyM.

http://bios-repair.co.uk/index.htm

Just saw your post so this might be too late.

Beelzebub

Got the BIOS from Eksitdata(Sweden) and it POSTed and booted up first time.
Used the BIOS Savior to make a back up copy, actually using this as the main BIOS now. I'll program the DFI one at the weekend and see if it takes. Then I'll have 2 spares.

Thanks anyway TonyM.