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advice please:bios flash failure on msi 875p neo board

Author
22 Mar 2005 5:37 PM
terry larman
hi all!
i recently attempted to flash the bios to the latest version on the above
board,unfortunately even though i thought id disabled antivirus &
firewall,the process was halted halfway through & i got a norton antivirus
warning screen  appear.
the system froze & that was that,couldnt clear the bios or force an update
using floppy.
followed advice from msi website,but no luck,got 4 beeps after forcing
update,which is supposed to signal successful update but system still just
sat there,no display & trying to read from floppy drive every 30 seconds or
so.
i understand that i can send the bios chip away & get it reprogrammed,in
fact i think there is a link on msi website.
the problem is the bios chip is soldered on to the mobo which,considering
its fairly new & was quite expensive is to say the least annoying!
does anybody have any suggestions please?
many thanks,
terry.

Author
22 Mar 2005 8:53 PM
S.Heenan
terry larman wrote:
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> hi all!
> i recently attempted to flash the bios to the latest version on the
> above board,unfortunately even though i thought id disabled antivirus
> & firewall,the process was halted halfway through & i got a norton
> antivirus warning screen  appear.
> the system froze & that was that,couldnt clear the bios or force an
> update using floppy.
> followed advice from msi website,but no luck,got 4 beeps after forcing
> update,which is supposed to signal successful update but system still
> just sat there,no display & trying to read from floppy drive every 30
> seconds or so.
> i understand that i can send the bios chip away & get it
> reprogrammed,in fact i think there is a link on msi website.
> the problem is the bios chip is soldered on to the mobo
> which,considering its fairly new & was quite expensive is to say the
> least annoying! does anybody have any suggestions please?
> many thanks,
> terry.
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm
Author
23 Mar 2005 1:15 AM
Spajky
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:37:22 GMT, "terry larman"
<terry.lar***@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>i recently attempted to flash the bios ...
>the system froze & that was that,couldnt clear the bios or force an update
>using floppy....
>,no display & trying to read from floppy drive every 30 seconds or
>so..........

>does anybody have any suggestions please?

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