Failed BIOS Flash Recovery -Worked For Me.

[The little lost angel]

On 26 Jun 2003 10:57:20 -0700, jjourard@jps.net (Jeff Jourard) wrote:-here's the trick -(Carefully) I yanked the Good BIOS chip right out of there, straightand clean, no wiggles or rocking back and forth(Carefully) I put the dead BIOS chip in its place

No offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floating
around the internet for at least a few years :P

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[daytripper]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:29:03 GMT, a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com (The
little lost angel) wrote:
On 26 Jun 2003 10:57:20 -0700, jjourard@jps.net (Jeff Jourard) wrote:-here's the trick -(Carefully) I yanked the Good BIOS chip right out of there, straightand clean, no wiggles or rocking back and forth(Carefully) I put the dead BIOS chip in its placeNo offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floatingaround the internet for at least a few years :P

A *lot* longer than that, even...

[V-man]

On 26 Jun 2003, Jeff Jourard wrote:
No offense but I think this erm "trick" has been known and floating around the internet for at least a few years :P No offense taken, but I did discover this myself. I couldn't find the help I needed to get out of my fix, so this is what I came up with. "Great Minds Think Alike" I guess you could say. J

Another trick is to plug in an old ISA based video card in case the BIOS
is screwed.
I have heard people in this group say that the BIOS contains a boot
block that doesn't get overwritten during a flash so that you could try to
recover.

Whether it's true or not, I don't know. I have recovered an old Trident
from the trash just in case. It's in a 486DX right now waiting to spring
into action :)

Congrats on your hot swapping success.