K7D-L BIOS update Problems

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I have just finished building the AMD dual as recommended by cmcquistion. (thanks man that was beyond helpful)

anyway I have been trying to update the bios on and off for a couple of days now and its really annoying that i cant.

Its on 1.6 at the moment and I downloaded 1.82 and made a 98 boot CD with Nero as I dont have a floppy drive. I put the files on and ran the flashing program, typed the new bios name, but it just sits there saying 'please wait' forever.

If I do as MSI reccommended on their website then I type all this:
awfl823d w6501kms.182 /sn/py/cc/cp/f
and it just sits there with the name of the bios (w6501kms.182) and says input file name but the keyboard wont work!

i did notice that the bios im using at the mo has 'ms' on the end not 'kms', but I followed the right links on the MSI site and this is what they gave me....does anyone know what is going on?or have they got any way to fix it?

Thanks

[cmcquistion]

Could be that it won't run unless it can write some little file to the media it is being run from, which it can't do on a CD.

Try putting the BIOS and flash program on a hard drive partition (FAT or FAT32), then boot from your CD, go to that drive, and run it off the hard drive.

For what it's worth, 1.82 doesn't really add much to 1.6, except some CPU names (MP2800 for example.) The CPU's will still run, even at BIOS 1.6, but will be names by their speed (2XXX MHz for example), instead of their proper name.

If it ends up being too much of a hassle, don't bother. 1.6 is just fine.

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OK thanks.

by the way I tried copying the flashing prog. and the bios to the ram drive that it made when i booted off the CD, just incase that was happening. I guess I'll just stick to 1.6 as I dont have a FAT partition and its too much hassle to set one up just for this.

I would have used the Hard Disk, but as you say it didnt know there was one as it is NTFS.

[axlecrusher]

I had the same problem with one of my K7D master boards. I think I traced it to a setting in the BIOS. Try to set the bios to the failsafe defaults. If that dosn't work set the bios to optimized defaults. If that dosn't work reset the bios by setting the reset pin on teh mobo. I don't know exactly what it is in the bios but for me it seemed like it would not let itself be over written. I believe I tried each of what I mentioned above. One of them worked and can now flash my bios.

Axle

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Thanks Axlecrusher, you were right :)

I tried again the only thing I did differently was load fail safe defaults and it worked right first time. its wierd that there was a problem anyway because I searched every setting for one that might not allow me to flash it.

Anyway all sorted now, thanks for the advice...

Oh, just noticed. Posting this gave me a Gold star! yay, errr is that for asking a certain amount of stupid questions or somthing?
:D

[JimmyK]

hey bud

Email MSI with almost any BIOS problem for the K7D and they will invariably send you a new chip int he mail for free jsut make sure to send ur name and address with your complaint worked for me.. twice.