[Wizard] useful reference; bios recovery

[Harry McNally]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:40:59 +0800 Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

> First, I've found a rather handy reference on the NSC Geode-based boards 
> for use with Linux:
> 
> http://www.larwe.com/technical/geode_linux.html
> 
> in case that's handy. It finially explains the weird issues I was having 
> with accel video.
> 
> Also... does anybody know how to reflash a zeroed BIOS on one of these? 
> The normal procedure for an award BIOS is a bootable MSDOS disk with an 
> autoexec.bat than runs awdflash to program the bios, but this system 
> doesn't even seem to be looking for the floppy drive. It's like the 
> bootblock BIOS is gone too :-( or they're weird/custom somehow. If 
> nobody knows, then since this recovery trick has failed it's off to get 
> a PLCC flash chip reprogrammed - *sigh*.

Hi Craig

As you may be aware (and for anyone else with dead m/bs), Mike Langan at
Worldwide Electronic Components, George Street, Kensington has the gear
to reflash BIOSes. Beware that his hours are non-geek. He is usually
there before 7am and knocks off at 3. Whoa betide if you come in
after 2.45! Anyone who knows Mike will know what I mean :-)

He tells me he gets quite a few people plodding in with the "my BIOS
didn't reflash properly" stories tho'.

He used to charge $5 I think but don't quote me.

Let us know how you get on.
Harry

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