Please help me...total newbie bios updating question...

[Duxie]

Hi everyone. I've read everything I can find about updating my BE6 mobo. I've triple checked the bios I need, have my manual in hand, done everything right according to what I've read, but the update never happens. I'm certain there's something really easy and stupid I'm missing that's causing my problem but I don't know what.

Here's what I do (and I've done this about 12 times so far with using caps, no caps, saving the old one, not saving the old one)

a prompt
then typing awdflash
the program comes up, I type new program name (as it appears on the disk and every other possible way)
choose to save (I've done yes and no)
then it says are you sure you wish to program I hit yes
then it goes through the updating process (I watch it cycle through the bars)
then it's done with the option to reset or quit
Everytime it "looks" successful but when I reset or restart the same old bios code appears (MU not TH) and I can't see any changes in the bios itself.

What am I doing wrong? Please help me this is driving me nuts.

 

[Allan Nielsen]

Do you have the flash bios update feature enabled in your BIOS?

 

[Duxie]

Thank you for your reply. However, in answer to your question, I don't know. I've never seen any reference to that anywhere. I looked through each of my bios options and didn't see anything that looked like an option to update. Could you tell me where I might find it?

 

[DaveB]

Try clearing the CMOS.

 

[Duxie]

DaveB (Feb 24, 2001 04:43 p.m.):
Try clearing the CMOS.

I tried this and it didn't make any difference. I also discovered that kicking my box doesn't help much either. So now I'm beyond perplexed. This is supposed to be easy hehe. I think maybe I'm just cursed. I'm up to about 15 tries now, and still desperate for any other ideas.

 

[sneakyfart]

sometimes theres a jumper on the board you have to short to enable bios flashing

 

[marty]

You may try the Abit method. If you go to their site there are a few step by step methods listed for flashing the BIOS. These are similar to those in the motherboard manual. You can do it with one command at the DOS prompt. The switches that you should use are all listed too.

 

[Duxie]

Thanks for your ideas Marty and Sneaky. I've followed the abit instructions very carefully, and reviewed several time those listed in the manual and on the web site. By all accounts it should work, but it doesn't. I've checked the manual for mention of a jumper that might be causing the problem, but I haven't seen anything that relates to bios flashing at all. It must be something like that though, since it appears to be successful, but the id code remains the same.

 

[Duxie]

Well, I finally figured it out. When I first tried to flash I somehow overwrote the bin file with the old bios information (smart huh) so it kept flashing the old bios. Thanks to everyone who tried to help.