BIOS autoflash?

[Calum McFarlane]

Hi guys,

http://www.anomaly.org.au/bh6faq/Bios_Info/bios_info.html#2

This URL describes a process to make a disk to recover your BIOS, should a
flash update go wrong. Apparently this works as there is a little part of
the BIOS which boots from a floppy, and can run the flash program to recover
the rest. Does anyone know if this would work on an A7V? If so, it'd be
pretty damn useful to make up a few of those disks, just in case :O)

Any opinions/ideas?

Calum

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[Henno Schooljan]

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Yes, this little part is called the "Boot Block", but on default, the A7V
flash writer also flashes this area! So when it goes wrong, also this block
is corrupt and you can't do anything.....

Henno

[Peter Schneider]

>Henno Schooljan wrote:
> Yes, this little part is called the "Boot Block", but on default, the A7V
> flash writer also flashes this area! So when it goes wrong, also this
block
> is corrupt and you can't do anything.....
>
> Henno
>
>

But you should have such a disk prepared in anyway. It saved me much time
and nerves.
One time as I was flashing a new bios file I had a power failure in my
appartment. It happend after the EEPROM got erased and the flash utility
just started to write the new bios. But I had luck, the Boot Block of the
new bios was already written so I could save my mobo with such a disk which
I have always prepared. Has the power failure happend one or two seconds
earlier my mobo would have been dead.

You can modify a bat file to flash your graphics card too. There it works
100 % because a GeForce or whatever needs no boot block to be initiated. So
when the next time something goes wrong while flashing your vid-card, all
you need is a prepared floppy disk to save you money, time and much nerves.

Peter