Well I did it...misflashed my BIOS on my A7S333. I accidently wiped out the BIOS section on Asus EzBios update (yeah easy my ass) instead of the boot block area, which was what the update was for. Anyone deal with ASUS with getting RMAs from them or am I'm better off getting an MSI 745 Ultra? If its going to take weeks for me to get an RMA I'll just get MSI board (if I can find one) and then sell the Asus board when I get it back....suggestions?
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I did get my Asus mobo fixed by Asus cause of a bad bios flash, but it was the store from which I bought it from that did the RMA. And it took a total of 2 weeks. I just told them that I couldn't boot cause I thought the bios was corrupt and they fixed it for free.Titanium is the new bling!
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...my Gigabyte has dual bios. Guess that's why.
You could check out the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP, it has dual AMI bios.
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Asus takes about 2weeks for RMA. If you ordered from Newegg, you can RMA much quicker...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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If you have a friend with the SAME board, ask him to do this:
Boot his PC, dump his bios into a file (or use a flash utility to save it), carefuly remove the bios chip from the mb - while the system is running, insert your chip, flash it, and then swap back the original chip and power off.
Put it back on your mb, and boot...
I almost forgot: put the flash utility on a floppy and boot from it, don't load up windoze.Last edited by Gear; 21 September 2002, 11:45.Loose bits sink chips.Comment
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....most of us wouldn't feel confortable doing that...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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It's very risky too.
Edit: I thought about doing that with my mobo when I screwed up my bios but I would rather wait than maybe ending up screw up 2 mobo's!Last edited by ZokesPro; 21 September 2002, 13:26.Titanium is the new bling!
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No riskier than having a dead MB... which could still be returned/RMA'd
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Aye, but if you mess up your friend's PC, you have 2 dead boxes. And you have to be careful, lest the tampering if obvious. This is also assuming the flash rom is socketed.
That said, I'd still do it.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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IIRC I saw www.badflash.com link being suggested to someone with similar problems.
A colleague successfully did this when one of the BIOSes in computer training room crapped out (Identical computers: ABIT KT7, Durons)
- booted a healthy computer using floppy with biosflash
- hotswapped bad BIOS chip into good computer
- flashed it
I heard Asus tech support is not teh win but I newer dealt with it myself.Comment
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I've hotswapped the BIOS on cards to fizx faulty BIOS'es several times... Though I do work in a computershop and I've had easy access to more than 2 equal MBs :-) But the important point is that you need a decent chip removal tool or else you'll easily slip and kill your mb. And of course disonnect everything except 1 ram chip, CPU and VGA, if you're unlucky you really don't want to mess up more than necissary.
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Err... many mobos will in fact boot from a floppy even with a bad BIOS. The floppy should contain DOS, the flasher, and an autoexec.bat that has the unattended flash command line - which is probably available from ASUS.COM - give it a try, worked like a champ for my MSI when I hosed it once.
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Gurm,Originally posted by Gurm
Err... many mobos will in fact boot from a floppy even with a bad BIOS. The floppy should contain DOS, the flasher, and an autoexec.bat that has the unattended flash command line - which is probably available from ASUS.COM - give it a try, worked like a champ for my MSI when I hosed it once.
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Mines dead...doesnt boot to anything...
Anyway I went out and ordered a MSI 745 Ultra through Googlegear for $73 bucks with free 2 day shipping from FedEx. I'll get the Asus Board RMA'ed and Sell it when I get it back. Anyone interested? 
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Originally posted by GT98
Gurm,
Mines dead...doesnt boot to anything... Anyway I went out and ordered a MSI 745 Ultra through Googlegear for $73 bucks with free 2 day shipping from FedEx. I'll get the Asus Board RMA'ed and Sell it when I get it back. Anyone interested?
How much?Titanium is the new bling!
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Nah, you couldn't pay me to use a VIA board at this point.
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