Can't flash VNF3

[Guest]

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Okay,I got version 2.0 bios from Chaintech.Unzipped it and it has no extension.
Every BIOS I've seen has the .bin extension.This one doesn't. Anyway, I put it
on a floppy by itself,rebooted and hit ALT+F2 and nothing happened. It said
decompress awdflash from bios and that's it.What am I doing wrong.Thanks

 

[Lazarus]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.chaintech (More info?)

You need the awdflash program on the floppy!

Boot to the a prompt and type the name of the program and it will load and
run

then give the program the name of the bios file


"YanquiDawg" <yanquidawg@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Okay,I got version 2.0 bios from Chaintech.Unzipped it and it has no
extension.
> Every BIOS I've seen has the .bin extension.This one doesn't. Anyway, I
put it
> on a floppy by itself,rebooted and hit ALT+F2 and nothing happened. It
said
> decompress awdflash from bios and that's it.What am I doing wrong.Thanks

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.chaintech (More info?)

Kinda thought that was it,but some new boards have awdflash in the bios.
BTW,what about the file name with no .bin extension.

>You need the awdflash program on the floppy!
>
>Boot to the a prompt and type the name of the program and it will load and
>run
>
>then give the program the name of the bios file

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.chaintech (More info?)

YanquiDawg wrote:
> Kinda thought that was it,but some new boards have awdflash in the bios.
> BTW,what about the file name with no .bin extension.
>
>
>>You need the awdflash program on the floppy!
>>
>>Boot to the a prompt and type the name of the program and it will load and
>>run
>>
>>then give the program the name of the bios file
>
>
>
just type the file name with no .xxx extension - BTW I can never get the
alt f2 to work either - had to do it by floppy too.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.chaintech (More info?)

Thanks.Did that.Now my mem speed isn't showing correctly. 333 instead of 400.
Got an e-mail from Chaintech.They said they'd fix it in the next BIOS.

>just type the file name with no .xxx extension - BTW I can never get the
>alt f2 to work either - had to do it by floppy too.