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ASUS K7V Bricked the Bios

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First post, by magicdave

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Well Vogons... It's been a good 25 years since I've done this one.

Tried to update the bios...

Pulled from here. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-k7v#bios
Latest 1007.b002

Copied aflash and bios update to a floppy... even backed up the current bios like a reasonable person.

Flashed and rebooted.

Nothing.

No beep, no display, no keyboard life (Numlock)

Took CMOS battery out. Shorted the CLRTC to clear it.

Still nothing.

CMOS is battery is pretty much dead... but I don't think situation would care.

Help Vogons... You're my only hope for the ancient knowledge of the AMD Thunderbirds!

Thanks in advance.

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Reply 1 of 7, by Imperious

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I think Your only hope is to buy an eprom burner and then You can reflash the Bios chip removed from the motherboard.

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Reply 2 of 7, by kheper

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If you ever hear a beep or see a light, do the following:

"1. Turn on the system and wait until you hear a beep and/or see the floppy light coming on (try hitting ENTER-key if there isn?t any activity, in some cases this will help). In SOME cases you may see something on the screen but generally AGP VGA is disabled by the Award Boot Block BIOS.
2. Make a bootable DOS floppy (so with IO.SYS, Command.com, etc.) with Awardflash, a known working BIOS image, and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file with flashinstructions (example: ?AWDFLASH BIOS.BIN /py /sb? - AWDFLASH is the name of the flasher, BIOS.BIN is the name of the BIOS file, /py /sb are optional commands; /py is the command for auto-flashing; /sb is the command for skipping Boot Block BIOS updation - Highly Recommended to skip it!).
3. Insert the floppy in the floppydrive and wait. If the BIOS is succesfully reprogrammed the system will reboot automatically."

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/bi … ry-guide.65951/

Reply 3 of 7, by wierd_w

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I concur with the "Flash the eeprom with an external writer" recommendation.

Reply 5 of 7, by PD2JK

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The T48 with a load of IC adapters is a good investment if you stay in the hobby.

I have the older TL866II+, saved a lot of hardware with it. Also good for quick SRAM testing (L2 cache ICs)

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Reply 6 of 7, by wbahnassi

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I think Necroware once mentioned that certain mobos don't even POST if the battery isn't functional. Worth a try.

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Reply 7 of 7, by magicdave

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Hey Gang, Thanks so much for the help on this...

I did end up getting a new bios chip... This guy linked below was incredible to work with and was super patient with all my questions. He sent me a brand new chip with the correct bios. Worked great. I'd imagine this person is on Vogons somewhere.

Thanks all! Hope this thread helps someone in the future.

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