Boy, what a day.
I just got through with flashing the bios in my zenith and man it was so screwed.
I was running the rev 2.0 bios and ever since I had started using it my system really was unstable but the stupid award ez-flash never let me back up the old bios which made it hard to go back especially considering the old one wasn't on the site.
Last month I happened to spy a new bios rev. version 3.0 on the site so I got it.
Well I'm such a big fan of flashing bios's that after my A7V333 got it's bios scrambled by a flash that I just quit doing it unless I have to (and yes the old bios in the zenith showed the vcore changing but it never did so I had to flash it) so after having several bad failures during loads and it not wanting to boot after these failures I decided to bite the bullet and flash the stupid thing.
Well first I was having no luck with getting the awdflash to work off my boot floppy until I realized that it had a different name than awdflash
so I booted into windows renamed it and headed back to the land of dos (dos bad) and typed in the string that showed on the chaintech site for flashing the bios (which was strange, I never had to type a string with awdflash before, just run the exe) and gritted my teeth and hit enter.
Everything seemed to go fine and it rebooted but then it wouldn't find my array...not good at all.
Well after resetting my cmos and setting up my bios for like the 5th time today I rebooted and it found my array, after that it was a case of just tweaking it a little and now it's fine.
All I have left to do is load the crap out of it and check the stability.
I was running the rev 2.0 bios and ever since I had started using it my system really was unstable but the stupid award ez-flash never let me back up the old bios which made it hard to go back especially considering the old one wasn't on the site.
Last month I happened to spy a new bios rev. version 3.0 on the site so I got it.
Well I'm such a big fan of flashing bios's that after my A7V333 got it's bios scrambled by a flash that I just quit doing it unless I have to (and yes the old bios in the zenith showed the vcore changing but it never did so I had to flash it) so after having several bad failures during loads and it not wanting to boot after these failures I decided to bite the bullet and flash the stupid thing.
Well first I was having no luck with getting the awdflash to work off my boot floppy until I realized that it had a different name than awdflash
so I booted into windows renamed it and headed back to the land of dos (dos bad) and typed in the string that showed on the chaintech site for flashing the bios (which was strange, I never had to type a string with awdflash before, just run the exe) and gritted my teeth and hit enter. Everything seemed to go fine and it rebooted but then it wouldn't find my array...not good at all.Well after resetting my cmos and setting up my bios for like the 5th time today I rebooted and it found my array, after that it was a case of just tweaking it a little and now it's fine.
All I have left to do is load the crap out of it and check the stability.
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Anyway, whenever I flash the BIOS on my motherboard, my palms get sweaty and I get really scared. One time it took a bit longer to reboot after a flash. My stomach dropped. It was fine though. Bah! Flashing = scary. :O
edit// Before any irate Catholics start posting, I just wanted to say.... j/k
I did try the raincoat thing first but the computer started giggling at me...