BIOS, hot-flashed done

[Lionfish]

Yup got my bios chip hot-flashed from my buddy's fine.

Sys up & running OK.

Thanks for the help guyz

[Phil]

Good to hear you didn't trash a second system

[silent bob]

How did you do it I have only HEARD of this being done, its like an Urban Legend or something .LOL congrats on the Hot Swap man

do you acually have to pull out the bios chip while your computer is running?

[Áedán]

The idea is that once the system is up and running, all the accesses to the BIOS should be done to the shadow RAM not the BIOS flash chip.

That way you can remove it whilst the system is powered up, and insert the corrupt flash chip. It does help to make sure that the power and ground to the corrupt chip are connected first! (;
It is potentially dangerous - It's possible to damage chip and motherboard.

AidanII

[Lionfish]

Originally posted by silent bob
How did you do it I have only HEARD of this being done, its like an Urban Legend or something .LOL congrats on the Hot Swap man

do you acually have to pull out the bios chip while your computer is running?

YUP.
It was easy

I took my chip out"CAREFULLY", then went over to his house with a boot disk & disk with flas prog, shut his sys off took his chip out put it in loose then started his with the DOS boot disk, took his chip out & put mine in then just flashed, peice of cake.

[Superman]

Lucky. Next time I screw up my BIOS I'll have to try that.