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Keystrokes for A7A266 Bios needed
My housemate's A7A266 (which I built 2 years ago) is having trouble
booting into Windows XP Pro. I seems to cold boot to the bios with some sort of "corrupted file" message. All I see on the screen is a bunch of random letters and color blobs, but it seems to resemble the bios screen that we all know and love. Using contol-alt-delete, it will eventually boot into windows and work fine for days until reboot So...I need to reflash: at the minimum, the original 1004 bios, or upgrade to 1009 or 1012, which is the latest bios for the A7A266. BUT I cannot get the machine to boot to a dos disk for flashing because the bios is not set to boot to a floppy. It completely skips over the floppy drive. Since I cannot read the bios setup screen, and assuming the bios is set to the defaults for booting (hdd0) I need someone to send me the EXACT keystrokes to reset the boot sequence for booting to floppy or even CD. Can anyone help? Thanks Randy ranny9 at cox dot net |
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Randy wrote:
My housemate's A7A266 (which I built 2 years ago) is having trouble booting into Windows XP Pro. I seems to cold boot to the bios with some sort of "corrupted file" message. All I see on the screen is a bunch of random letters and color blobs, but it seems to resemble the bios screen that we all know and love. Using contol-alt-delete, it will eventually boot into windows and work fine for days until reboot So...I need to reflash: at the minimum, the original 1004 bios, or upgrade to 1009 or 1012, which is the latest bios for the A7A266. BUT I cannot get the machine to boot to a dos disk for flashing because the bios is not set to boot to a floppy. It completely skips over the floppy drive. Since I cannot read the bios setup screen, and assuming the bios is set to the defaults for booting (hdd0) I need someone to send me the EXACT keystrokes to reset the boot sequence for booting to floppy or even CD. press esc button when booting to select boot device. |
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Hulttio wrote:
Randy wrote: My housemate's A7A266 (which I built 2 years ago) is having trouble booting into Windows XP Pro. I seems to cold boot to the bios with some sort of "corrupted file" message. All I see on the screen is a bunch of random letters and color blobs, but it seems to resemble the bios screen that we all know and love. Using contol-alt-delete, it will eventually boot into windows and work fine for days until reboot So...I need to reflash: at the minimum, the original 1004 bios, or upgrade to 1009 or 1012, which is the latest bios for the A7A266. BUT I cannot get the machine to boot to a dos disk for flashing because the bios is not set to boot to a floppy. It completely skips over the floppy drive. Since I cannot read the bios setup screen, and assuming the bios is set to the defaults for booting (hdd0) I need someone to send me the EXACT keystrokes to reset the boot sequence for booting to floppy or even CD. press esc button when booting to select boot device. Tried it...didn't work...just booted into Windows XP as usual after the garbled screen. And yes, I have made sure I have the latest video drivers. Randy |
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Randy wrote:
Tried it...didn't work...just booted into Windows XP as usual after the garbled screen. And yes, I have made sure I have the latest video drivers. use then liveupdate utility and flash in windows http://www.asuscom.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm |
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Hulttio wrote:
use then liveupdate utility and flash in windows http://www.asuscom.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm I don't read German... Randy |
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Hulttio wrote:
Randy wrote: Tried it...didn't work...just booted into Windows XP as usual after the garbled screen. And yes, I have made sure I have the latest video drivers. use then liveupdate utility and flash in windows http://www.asuscom.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm I don't read German. Would EZ flash do the same thing? http://www.asus.com/support/english/...s/ezflash.aspx Randy |
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Randy wrote:
Hulttio wrote: Randy wrote: Tried it...didn't work...just booted into Windows XP as usual after the garbled screen. And yes, I have made sure I have the latest video drivers. use then liveupdate utility and flash in windows http://www.asuscom.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm I don't read German. Would EZ flash do the same thing? http://www.asus.com/support/english/...s/ezflash.aspx I guess not (answering my own question). EZ flash is for boards with 533 FSB which is beyond the A7A266. Randy |
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Randy wrote:
Randy wrote: Hulttio wrote: Randy wrote: Tried it...didn't work...just booted into Windows XP as usual after the garbled screen. And yes, I have made sure I have the latest video drivers. use then liveupdate utility and flash in windows http://www.asuscom.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm I don't read German. Would EZ flash do the same thing? http://www.asus.com/support/english/...s/ezflash.aspx I guess not (answering my own question). EZ flash is for boards with 533 FSB which is beyond the A7A266. Randy just download asus update you found it from www.asus.com too direct link ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIO...usupd52801.zip the program is to english. ez flash is totally different thing |
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In article , Randy wrote:
My housemate's A7A266 (which I built 2 years ago) is having trouble booting into Windows XP Pro. I seems to cold boot to the bios with some sort of "corrupted file" message. All I see on the screen is a bunch of random letters and color blobs, but it seems to resemble the bios screen that we all know and love. Using contol-alt-delete, it will eventually boot into windows and work fine for days until reboot So...I need to reflash: at the minimum, the original 1004 bios, or upgrade to 1009 or 1012, which is the latest bios for the A7A266. BUT I cannot get the machine to boot to a dos disk for flashing because the bios is not set to boot to a floppy. It completely skips over the floppy drive. Since I cannot read the bios setup screen, and assuming the bios is set to the defaults for booting (hdd0) I need someone to send me the EXACT keystrokes to reset the boot sequence for booting to floppy or even CD. Can anyone help? Thanks Randy ranny9 at cox dot net Looking in the manual, section 4.6 Boot Menu, shows the default settings for booting. The first device is "Removable Device" and it is set to [Legacy Floppy] by default. So, perhaps doing the "clear the CMOS" procedure, will set the Boot Menu the way it is shown in the manual. (See the "Forget your Password?" section of the manual, for the correct sequence for shorting the two CLRTC contacts with a screwdriver tip. The computer should be unplugged while doing the procedure, to prevent +5VSB from damaging the hardware.) Then, you can use Aflash on a DOS boot disk, to do the update. Another possibility, is the problem is actually with the video card and not the motherboard. Have you tried another video card, on the off chance there won't be any blocks on the screen ? Perhaps flashing the BIOS is an unnecessary risk. The least risky way to update the flash, is to find a service like badflash.com and buy another flash chip. Asus will apparently also sell you a flash chip (phone tech support to get a phone number of who to talk to). Finding someone with an EEPROM programmer is another, more obscure option. Not too many computer repair places will have one of those. Flashing from Windows is more risky. If you line up a replacement flash chip in advance, that might reduce downtime, no matter what flashing method you think you can get working. Paul |
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