help me bring my infinity back to life!

FLyingHamster · Apr 15, 2004

flashed it with the 2/17 bios and soon after got no post. have tried removing the battery, clearing cmos, pulling the power cable, reset switch, etc.. and none of it works. so the only thing I can think of now is that my bios is corrupt. my question is, how exactly do I do the "hot swap" or whatever to try to bring my infinity back? I have a bios chip from an NF7, so can I use that or do I need to buy something else?

btw, Do all Inifinity boards have the Winbond bios chip? and can I use an A7N8X bios chip as well?

any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

Sentential · Apr 15, 2004

Weeeeeeeee!

Welcome to the club brother!....(see sig)

Atleast you have access to another Nforce board... AFAIK you can hotflash any Nforce 2 to Nforce 2

Staphylococcus · Apr 16, 2004

As long as you have the right BIOS chip - Abit's are 2MB, DFI's 4MB.

FLyingHamster · Apr 16, 2004

ok fixed the problem. thnx ppls.

Sentential · Apr 16, 2004

ok fixed the problem. thnx ppls.

....Hotflash?

Im glad your back up and running....I cant say the same for myself

FLyingHamster · Apr 16, 2004

yep.. u got it.

sorry to hear that man. wuts the problem?

Sentential · Apr 16, 2004

wuts the problem?

....Take a wild guess

..... This is the third time that meh BIOS have crapped out... Im gonna by a BIOS kit once my RMA arrives

FLyingHamster · Apr 16, 2004

3RD? geeze lol. yea I would get a bios savior kit right about now. wish u the best.

Hydr0 Styles · Apr 17, 2004

luckily I had a BIOS chip from a dead Asus A7N8X deluxe, so I could hotflash my DFI chip myself with just my LP.

1/21 BIOS and no problems for months with 250Mhz FSB, CPC ON.

FLyingHamster · Apr 17, 2004

250fsb.. nice!

what vdimm, vdd, and vcore do u run with those settings? and do u have APIC enabled?

Jklipper · Apr 18, 2004

I sent in my ultra infinity on an RMA. After reading this i am thinking that mabee i had a corrupted bios aswell, dont know for sure but where would i be able to find a BIOS kit?

snvpa · Apr 19, 2004

SOB I just borked the freaking bios. Just another reason not to fix it if it ain't broken. Any info about a bios saviour kit would be greatly appreciated. No 4mb bios chips only 2 nf7s ones. argghhh. no far cry for me now.

Sentential · Apr 19, 2004

www.badflash.com

^^ Has replacement chips for sale. If you get a spare you can hotflash the dud

snvpa · Apr 21, 2004

thanks for the link, luckily for me, Crimedog is up at UConn too so I used his chip to hot flash my bios back to life, so all set. It was alot easier then I had anticipated.

FLyingHamster · Apr 21, 2004

haha thats cool. yall just met somehwere up at the college?

snvpa · Apr 22, 2004

Yeah just went to his dorm had a couple beers and got it working. Lucky for me, saved me 25 bucks and a couple extra days with no rig.

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