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Bios Again

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Blufx, 2003/01/27.

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    Blufx

    Blufx Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    When I finished my last post. windows started going nuts. Display was acting up and it froze. I rebooted it started in safe mode. windows said I had a missing od damaged vxd file. I booted again and it stopped at verifying dmi pool data!! It did this several times and I was thinking the bios I just put in was lost...... my worst fears were coming true. I thought I was going to have to find a pre-flashed chip or just buy a new m/b. Then I had a brainstorm.....I disconnected the power to the m/b and cleared the cmos. Guess what? It booted. Don't think I know what I'm doing or anything, I only read of this stuff this morning. I'm reinstalling windows even as I type this, and when it finishes, I'm planing to re-flash the bios again. Anybody think that's a bad idea?

    Blu
     
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    mflynn

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    Yeah!

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    Rockster2U

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    Ditto on Mike's Comment!



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    Me too! Don't kick it! :)
     
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    Lol!!!

    Blufx as I told you in your other thread you should not have had to flash it anyway.

    You only needed BIOS support that the HD mfg install disks could give.

    But you did it and you are still standing!

    If you were really sucessfull it would have said sucessfull at the end of the flash. If so look at the revision when you next boot or go into the BIOS to see.

    Because clearing CMOS only clears settings not the actual PROM.

    If everything works good leave it alone but at most you would now want to select "Optimial Performance settings" or "High Performance settings" etc. depending on the brand of the BIOS.

    Mike
     
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    Blufx

    Blufx Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Whew!

    Thanks for the help guys. I didn't re-flash, but I had to re-install a lot of drivers after the windows re-install (windows told me I had to re-install after the vxd error).
    I didn't get any software with the new h/d, I got on the net cheap and all it came with was bubble wrap and plastic peanuts. Not knowing how to do this, I looked for answers on the web,and bios updates seemed to be solution when the puter didn't find the new h/d during bootup. If Maxtor has the updates on their software, I never knew it, I had problems using the download I found, so I used fdisk to partition and format Which is something else I'v never done before). The past few days have been a lot of brain-drain for me.

    I think it's over, Blu
    maybe not

    Now I got to put the 20g in hers, I wondering if I'm going to run into the same thing with her NEC. It's about four years old now.
     
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