has anyone here ever resurrected a computer with a corrupted bios? my brother tried upgrading his bios in windows and the process froze. he turned it on and off after like 8 hours of it not making any progress and after that it would not boot. it won't even go to the bios menu. its an hp-asus board so the only bios update available was this flash in windows piece of garbage. i googled it and other people had the same problem and said to extract the bios ROM file from that program which i did, and to create a boot disk with it. his computer doesnt have a floppy drive so i made an autoexec.bat with

awdflash.exe 513.rom /blah /blah /blah

then put the autoexec.bat, awdflash.exe, and the ROM file into an ima with this freeware windows image program, and burned that into a boot disk using nero

when i try to start it up with this disk it says "NO SYSTEM DISK" does anyone know where i could have gone wrong? it does give some message about "WinImage by _____", some message injected by one of the image softwares i used.



he has tried messing with the battery and moving the jumper to clear cmos to no avail. sometimes if we hit the bios menu button it brings up a screen of rainbow colored squares

I'll PM you an old System32 folder fix that might just work.

my brother tried upgrading his bios in windows and the process froze. he turned it on and off



1) Say hello to a new motherboard

or

2) If you want to go down a more complex route, google for tutorials on how to hot swap/hot flash a BIOS chip (Assuming it can be removed. Some can't.)

it's an hp board and i think the only way to swap the chip is to send it in to them for 120$ repair. he had already ordered a new MB but it still seemed fixable.


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