Serious BIOS problem!

[Tanvir Hassan]

Hi Tim,

How does one turn off the bios?  I cannot get to the Ctrl-A part of the boot
because the bios crashes by that time.  I do not see any jumpers that turn
off the bios either.

Tim Fletcher wrote:

> > I have an adaptec 2940u2w and I was going to install RH6.0 (I have 5.2)
> > and thought it might make sense to upgrade to the new 2.110 BIOS.  Well
> > now I cannot boot my machine, it stops at the BIOS banner and hangs.
> > Since I cannot boot I cannot reflash the old BIOS into my adaptec (I
> > have the old BIOS from the flashing the BIOS).
> >
> > So how do I fix this?  Adaptec tells me that I have to buy a new card!
>
> Turn off bios, boot off ide, reflash?
>
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