[geeks] FW: Argh, my Cool rescue dies horible death

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Wed Nov 6 20:10:13 CST 2002


On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 chris at chrisbyrne.com wrote:
> I've looked at the manual and the board itself and I don't think theres a
> flash reset or double BIOS on this rev of the board (though later revs did
> have it apparently) so I'm going to try and track down a PCI vid card and
> see if it will init up enough for me to reflash.
>
> If not... Somehow I seriously doubt I'll be able to find the right BIOS chip
> for this system considering it's seven years old.

Find a copy of the BIOS and have it flashed directly into the chip with a
hardware programmer.

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