I thought the Flash Utilities told you whether it is a compatible version or not?Originally posted by Mr Flibble
He flashed his system with the BIOS for a newer motherboard and rebooted. It didn't quite work as well as he planned (how odd).
Whoops! stories
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Ned Flanders
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Sleep,
the process of flashing the bios involves erasing the programmable ROM chips on the motherboard and rewriting newer updated information to them.
This is a delicate procedure and one should be certain what they are doing before stripping and rewriting the firmware present on the motherboard.
Who knows what this guy did flibble is talking about but I'm certain he rendered his system board useless possibly beyond a point of repair. It's too bad he didn't realize an older motherboard like his would never support newer memory chips anyway.
the process of flashing the bios involves erasing the programmable ROM chips on the motherboard and rewriting newer updated information to them.
This is a delicate procedure and one should be certain what they are doing before stripping and rewriting the firmware present on the motherboard.
Who knows what this guy did flibble is talking about but I'm certain he rendered his system board useless possibly beyond a point of repair. It's too bad he didn't realize an older motherboard like his would never support newer memory chips anyway.
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Ahh man ... flashing ... ugh.
There's the biggest almost whoops story I have...
I had just gotten a brand new Jazz Adrenaline Rush (Read: Voodoo Rush, first 3dfx 2d/3d chip) and I was anxious to get it installed, new BIOS, drivers and all.
I find a new Flash BIOS, so I download it and go through the procedure. I go through all the steps as it tells me to and am met with the message 'Flash Failed' or something like this.
I reboot to try again ... no graphics. I hear the computer boot up, so I figure I can run the flash program again, but I can't see anything! I had to reinstall my old video card, run the flash program (all the way till where you finally said yes/no), then copy all the commands down. Reinstall the new card, reboot, and very carefully enter in the right commands.
Computer reboots with graphics *phew*.
There's the biggest almost whoops story I have...
I had just gotten a brand new Jazz Adrenaline Rush (Read: Voodoo Rush, first 3dfx 2d/3d chip) and I was anxious to get it installed, new BIOS, drivers and all.
I find a new Flash BIOS, so I download it and go through the procedure. I go through all the steps as it tells me to and am met with the message 'Flash Failed' or something like this.
I reboot to try again ... no graphics. I hear the computer boot up, so I figure I can run the flash program again, but I can't see anything! I had to reinstall my old video card, run the flash program (all the way till where you finally said yes/no), then copy all the commands down. Reinstall the new card, reboot, and very carefully enter in the right commands.
Computer reboots with graphics *phew*.
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Mr Flibble
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It usually does, but also gives the option to do it anyway.. And Ned is right, it rendered the motherboard completely inoperable.Originally posted by Mr Sleep
I thought the Flash Utilities told you whether it is a compatible version or not?
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Well, I don't know if I'd call this a Whoops story or not... My old pc was extremely slow...it would take 10 minutes after pressing the start button for the menu to come up. I've no idea to this day whether it was an OS problem or the hard drive itself, but I'll never know because out of frustration one day, I kicked the computer. Of course, the hard drive completely fried after that.
Note to self: do not kick computers EVER
Note to self: do not kick computers EVER
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Whops - well it could be a whops story.
I have a system cooler fan in my computer, mounted in a PCI slot under min GeForce 2MX card to lead heat out.
But lately it has started to make much noise when active - so one night when playing a game, I got extreemly annoyed at the sound, so I decided to pull the plug on the fan.
I removed the casing and started pulling out the plug - of course I was still in the game - didn't bother turning of the computer just for pulling out a plug (yeah - I know you are thinking I fried my computer -but no - I'm not that n00b-like
).
But I pulled the plug and was satisfied with the silence - going back to my game, suddenly the Blue Screen of Death came up saying that the computer couldn't write to the harddrive.
*dough* - I had completely forgotten that the plug for the fan was inbetween the powersurply and the harddrive.
Embarrased I reconected the fan, and thus the harddrive and didn't tell nobody (untill now)
On the same note - I've once "accidently" remove a PCI-card (think it was a soundcard) when the computer was running - it didn't like that at all
I have a system cooler fan in my computer, mounted in a PCI slot under min GeForce 2MX card to lead heat out.
But lately it has started to make much noise when active - so one night when playing a game, I got extreemly annoyed at the sound, so I decided to pull the plug on the fan.
I removed the casing and started pulling out the plug - of course I was still in the game - didn't bother turning of the computer just for pulling out a plug (yeah - I know you are thinking I fried my computer -but no - I'm not that n00b-like
).But I pulled the plug and was satisfied with the silence - going back to my game, suddenly the Blue Screen of Death came up saying that the computer couldn't write to the harddrive.
*dough* - I had completely forgotten that the plug for the fan was inbetween the powersurply and the harddrive.
Embarrased I reconected the fan, and thus the harddrive and didn't tell nobody
(untill now)On the same note - I've once "accidently" remove a PCI-card (think it was a soundcard) when the computer was running - it didn't like that at all
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This is quite old case but if you don't follow news on drivers column you'll probably get stuck on this too
A friend of mine asked me to help him installing the new bought nVidia Riva TNT2 Card which was considered top of the line that time. After "easily" slip the nVidid into AGP slot, I install the driver and sit back to enjoy my supposely "Fruit of Work".
FYI the OS on the PC is Win 98, after a restart procedure we try some "weighted" 3D games. It's all went smooth, but after approx 15 mins the PC hangs. "DAMN" I thought; what wnet wrong ??? I checked all connection and the version of display drivers.....it's all correct. I even try reinstalling the stupid OS, and the result was still the same (PC hangs after a while, no matter what prog you launched )
I was about to give up when my lil bro called me asking something. in desperation I asked him about the porb I encounter. He simply asked "does the MB got ALI chipset ?? If it does you gotta get the newest version of both ALI & VGA drivers" The worst thing is this line "C'mon bro, I thought you remember that article was on the magazine you showed me last week" Yes, my friend MB got ALI chipset which is got compability prob with nVidia driver that time
So we rushed back to my house DL the new drivers and reinstall them. VOILA ! After that bloodiest "bloodbath" I finally get thru it
A friend of mine asked me to help him installing the new bought nVidia Riva TNT2 Card which was considered top of the line that time. After "easily" slip the nVidid into AGP slot, I install the driver and sit back to enjoy my supposely "Fruit of Work".
FYI the OS on the PC is Win 98, after a restart procedure we try some "weighted" 3D games. It's all went smooth, but after approx 15 mins the PC hangs. "DAMN" I thought; what wnet wrong ??? I checked all connection and the version of display drivers.....it's all correct. I even try reinstalling the stupid OS, and the result was still the same (PC hangs after a while, no matter what prog you launched
)I was about to give up when my lil bro called me asking something. in desperation I asked him about the porb I encounter. He simply asked "does the MB got ALI chipset ?? If it does you gotta get the newest version of both ALI & VGA drivers" The worst thing is this line "C'mon bro, I thought you remember that article was on the magazine you showed me last week"
Yes, my friend MB got ALI chipset which is got compability prob with nVidia driver that time So we rushed back to my house DL the new drivers and reinstall them. VOILA ! After that bloodiest "bloodbath" I finally get thru it
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