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Posted by Wald on October 14, 2005, 6:54 am
Please log in for more thread options I'm planning to flash the BIOS on an older system to overcome the 2Gb limit it has for hard drives. I'm not too familiar with this, so a making a BIOS backup first seems like a pretty good idea. It's an Award bios on a Soltek SL-54P5 motherboard, I have a boot disk with awdflash and an appropriate .bin on it. However, making a backup with "awdflash a:\biosbak.bin /sy /pn" seems to take quite some time. After ten minutes, it still doesn't seem to have done anything. After a reset, I find a "biosbak.bin" file on the diskette, but it's empty. Is this normal? Thanks, Wald | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jan Alter on October 14, 2005, 11:04 am
Please log in for more thread options I've done it) doesn't usually take more than a minute or two. The whole process takes less than 3 - 4 minutes. Let me suggest making a new startup disk and recopying the awardflash file (or even downloading it from the mb maker's website ) and adding the new bin file to the disk. Read the directions for flashing and follow them verbatim. And no, there really should be a backup file sitting on the disk when all is done. Good luck -- Jan Alter bearpuf@verizon.net or jalter@phila.k12.pa.us | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by WebWalker on October 14, 2005, 7:23 pm
Please log in for more thread options Bad floppy disk, maybe.
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Posted by BruceM on October 15, 2005, 9:10 am
Please log in for more thread options I've done several secessful flashes & only once has the option popped up to
give me the option to back the old one up. I don't worry about it at all. Be confident that it'll work & if it doesn't they usually have details how to recover from "bad flash". > Bad floppy disk, maybe.
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Posted by wald on October 17, 2005, 7:39 am
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Thanks for the suggestions, guys. The basic problem boiled down to an "Unknown flash type" error. I was using v8.18 of awdflash.exe, I switched to v7.90 and this one *was* able to flash the BIOS correctly with the same .bin file. Thanks for the help. Wald | |||||||||||||||||||
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>
> I'm planning to flash the BIOS on an older system to overcome the 2Gb
> limit
> it has for hard drives. I'm not too familiar with this, so a making a BIOS
> backup first seems like a pretty good idea.
>
> It's an Award bios on a Soltek SL-54P5 motherboard, I have a boot disk
> with
> awdflash and an appropriate .bin on it. However, making a backup with
> "awdflash a:\biosbak.bin /sy /pn" seems to take quite some time. After ten
> minutes, it still doesn't seem to have done anything. After a reset, I
> find
> a "biosbak.bin" file on the diskette, but it's empty. Is this normal?
>
> Thanks,
> Wald