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On Sunday 04 January 2004 05:25 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> matty91 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>I've always heard that if your bios update goes south, you're screwed.
> >>Well, there's a first time for everything.
> >>
> >>Updating the bios on my primary box, all was going well, then the screen
> >>goes blank and the machine begins to cycle through my cd drives.  First
> >>one appears like it's being accessed, then the 2nd.  It just keeps doing
> >>this.  I know you're not supposed to shut the box down during a bios
> >>update, but after 30 minutes, I figured it's toast anyway.
> >
> > I would contact the manufacturer and explain to them that you followed
> > their instructions, and their updgrade procedure destroyed a working
> > motherboard. That should hopefully get you a free PROM (maybe a new
> > motherboard).
>
> I went by the shop I picked the board up from and they sold me another
> k7s5a board that had defective ide for $10.  I swapped the bios chips
> and I'm good.  This chip has a later version of the bios, so no need to
> flash to get it to recognize the faster cpu. :)


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