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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:38:51 GMT,
mmiserus@VERWIJDER_DITxs4all.nl.invalid wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:31:28 +0100, Julian Richards <see@sig.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:41:19 GMT,
>>mmiserus@VERWIJDER_DITxs4all.nl.invalid wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:15:07 GMT, "Mike K." <home@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I recently flashed my l7s7a2 bios with a different version than what it was
>>>>supposed to have, which was the 2/27/03 release version.
>>>
>>>I am sorry, but: what a stupid thing to do!
>>>
>>>>Not sure what
>>>>version I flashed it with to mess it up.
>>>
>>>Were you drunk?
>>>
>>>>Now my computer wont boot at all.
>>>
>>>No wonder.
>>>
>>>You cannot flash it back.
>>>You could try to find someone who has the knowledge and the material
>>>to reprogram the bios chip...
>>>That will cost you.
>>>
>>>>Is there any way i can re-flash it to the correct version, or will I have to
>>>>hot swap bios chips to get it to work?
>>>...............
>>>>
>>>>cpu: Athlon 3000+
>>>>ram: 512 mb DDR 2400
>>>>GeForce4 440
>>>>80 gb HDD
>>>>52x CDROM drive
>>>>on board sound, LAN
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Mike
>>>>
>>>Success...
>>>
>>>Max M.
>>
>>I was having problems with my L7S7A2 and tried different (but
>>sopposedly correct) bios incl Cheepoman. Having not cured the problems
>>I tried another bios (supposedly correct still) and the mb died. A
>>local dealer had a whole load in stock cheap so I bought another one
>>which worked straight out of the box, the old one I have put down to
>>being a dud.
>>
>After reading this - your latest - posting I am sorry to have given
>you a little bit of a hard time. However you stated:
>
>>I recently flashed my l7s7a2 bios with a different version than what it was
>>supposed to have, which was the 2/27/03 release version.
>
>so I thought you flashed with the wrong version. But now this seems
>not to have been the case so - encore - my apologies
>
>i am happy you found a solution for the problem!
>
>>
>>Julian Richards
>
>Max M.
This is even more confusing. You weren't giving me a hard time but
Mike.
It can be difficult with L7S7A2 mbs. Sandra shows the bios as being a
1.0 which I believe never existed "in the wild" and that all of them
are 1.1s. The one that seems to have killed my old board was off the
same Web page as the Cheepoman. It may not be the fault of that bios I
suppose. The old board could never make the card reader work yet the
new one did. The performance of the new board is superior to the old
one. Having said that, I'll give that particular bios a wide berth,
especially as the exceptional Cheepoman one is available. He also has
a memory hack for that bios which is supposed to up performance
greatly. Has anyone here tried it?
--
Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk
XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives
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