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Originally Posted by MarkBooth
Ok, I've now seen my mates machine. No joy 
The system seems to be bypassing the bios (which is Award BTW). As soon as I start the machine, with a system disk in it comes up with "Detecting floppy drive A media" and runs off what's on the A drive until the C prompt. I can#t get any CD-Rom drivers to work on it. I tried taking out the CMOS jumper and putting it back on the board to no avail.
I've never ever tried a BIOS Flash before, so would not try it. (Saying that, where do I get the motherboard settings friom to make the file in the first place?) With the 2 sounds coming up and all the literature/websites I've read saying nothing about that error, I'm thinking of giving the motherboard up for dead.
Any more suggestions? (Many were useful, so thank's for your help so far.) |
If your BIOS is corrupted and you're unable to retrieve it (and I don't think resetting a jumper will do that, that will only clear the BIOS settings) then you're left with only 2 choices, reflash the bios or buy a new motherboard, you can get a BIOS bin file from the motherboard manufacturers web site along with the relevant DOS flashing tool, it'll give you full instructions on how to flash the BIOS so it's almost impossible to mess it up (unless you have a power cut or turn the machine off while it's doing the business)