From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 28 17:36:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00140 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00135 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20625; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708290035.RAA20625@mail.san.rr.com> Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com(204.210.31.97) by mail via smap (V2.0) id xma020540; Thu, 28 Aug 97 17:35:41 -0700 From: "Studded" To: "Howard Lew" Cc: "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 28 Aug 97 17:35:39 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Flashing BIOS (Was Q: K5 clock speeds) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:37:15 -0700 (PDT), Howard Lew wrote: >Flash upgrades usually don't fail unless people flash it with the wrong >version. Then the motherboard is hosed and they need a replacement chip. >Even though Award BIOS supposedly still let's use reflash it with their >flash bios boot block and an ISA video card, I have never seen that work >before. Even the wrong version is usually not fatal. I had this exact scenario happen (clueless techie on the phone told me to d/l the wrong thing, "Oh, I'm so glad you called back!" *grumble*) and there is a jumper on my mb (dell-tweaked intel of long ago) that clears everything out and gets you back to the factory defaults. I just built a new box for a good friend and the basically generic socket 7 mb had the same kind of jumper, so I can't help thinking this is a pretty standard feature? Doug Do thou amend they face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"