Serious BIOS problem!--SOLVED

[Tanvir Hassan]

Well, I stuck the card in another machine (as Adaptec suggested) and that machine
beeped a bunch of times but it did eventually boot and I reflashed the card to the
old 2.01.0 bios (using restore.bat) and then I took the card back to my machine
and everything is A-OK.  Wheee!

The moral:  if your bios ain't broke...don't fix it!

Tim Fletcher wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Sorry can't really help on that one, just a suggestion I came up with.
>
> One thing to try is in main bios see if there is anything about booting
> other bios / setting aside memory for them and turn this off.
>
> Also if you can get your hands on a second card for a few hours I think
> that the first bios booted cotrols both cards. So if you arange the cards
> right then you can get the good one to boot the bad one and then reflash
> the bad one.
>
> --
>
>       Tim Fletcher                  .~.
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>
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
>                 -- Isaac Asimov



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