Failed BIOS Flash Recovery -Worked For Me.

On 26 Jun 2003 10:57:20 -0700, (Jeff Jourard) wrote:
-here's the trick -
(Carefully) I yanked the Good BIOS chip right out of there, straight
and clean, no wiggles or rocking back and forth
(Carefully) I put the dead BIOS chip in its place

No offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floating
around the internet for at least a few years :P

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:29:03 GMT, (The
little lost angel) wrote:

On 26 Jun 2003 10:57:20 -0700, (Jeff Jourard) wrote:
-here's the trick -
(Carefully) I yanked the Good BIOS chip right out of there, straight
and clean, no wiggles or rocking back and forth
(Carefully) I put the dead BIOS chip in its place

No offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floating
around the internet for at least a few years :P

A *lot* longer than that, even...

On 26 Jun 2003, Jeff Jourard wrote:


No offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floating
around the internet for at least a few years :P

No offense taken, but I did discover this myself.
I couldn't find the help I needed to get out of my fix, so this is
what I came up with.
"Great Minds Think Alike" I guess you could say.
J


Another trick is to plug in an old ISA based video card in case the BIOS
is screwed.
I have heard people in this group say that the BIOS contains a boot
block that doesn't get overwritten during a flash so that you could try to
recover.

Whether it's true or not, I don't know. I have recovered an old Trident
from the trash just in case. It's in a 486DX right now waiting to spring
into action

Congrats on your hot swapping success.