Updating BIOS With Award Flash Tools
Apr 10, 2006
Since WinXP doesn't run on the MS-DOS kernel, what is the proper procedure for updating my BIOS with the Award FLASH tool? Can it be run from the command prompt while Win is running? My MBoard is a SOYO SY-K7VMP2 and lately an automatic reboot began coming up occasionally in the middle of various scans (such as security checkups, registry cleanings, and defrags), in addition to a few long downloads. I'm almost guessing that this might be the result of something like an outdated driver or BIOS. Something even caused a type of defect in my RAM in which only 1 of the two 1GB chips (less than a year old) is detected and identified, and the system will only run while just one of the chips is in its slot.
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Sep 10, 2005
Im new to PCs and since my motherboard is three years old is it a good idea to upgrade? I contacted the maker of my motherboard and they say an upgrade is available and sent it to me for { DON'T CRACKUP} $49.00. I already read that you can really mess up your PC if you do one thing wrong when upgrading. Am I a fool for buying the upgrade? Please let me know as I can send the Floppy discs back.
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Jan 13, 2008
The mobo is still good but was getting a BIOS ROM Checksum Error at bootup, then it would go to Reading A: drive, insert system disk and press Enter.After doing a google search discovered that I would need to update the bios got the correct file for the board and the newest flash utility, and am doing it now.But it's been so long since I've done a floppy disk bios update, I can't remember about how long it normally took.
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Jun 25, 2005
updating the bios settings I recieved from HP concerning my second PC. I have had numerous problems after a repair, and as is the system continues to fail reading the drive. I have tried copying .ini and other files from CD but the boot config is stil off.I have put the HD into my other PC and the data is fine but just unable to get the #2 back up and running. without having to execute it. In other words I cant run it on my #1 PC since it's a different motherboard etc,
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Aug 27, 2006
I was clearing out some old files and I have accidently run (from within XP) a BIOS flash utility for my old AOpen AX6BC mobo. MY current mobo is an MSI K8N Neo2. From what I can recall, the utility perfoms the BIOS flash the next time that the PC is rebooted. The file is called ax6bc110.exe. I have tried to delete the file both from Windows and from a Dos box, but I am being told that the file is in use. I have looked in Task Manager but I cannot find an entry that relates to this file.
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Sep 12, 2009
I am trying reflash my bios and do not have a floppy drive available easily. I believe my mother board supports flashing with in windows but incase it fails is it possible to put the bios on a cd r instead of a floppy disk and flash it from there?if so how do I make a boot cd to allow such?
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Aug 26, 2008
So, my computer has been screwed up for quite some time now, and I thought I might remedy the situation by doing a repair install of windows XP. I managed to get my hands on a slipstreamed SP3 CD today, and let windows do its thing. However, when the time came to enter in my XP key, I could not use my keyboard, which is the same problem i had before i repaired windows.
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Aug 1, 2005
This in plain non-techie English? My Microsoft Camera and scanner Wizard no longer comes up when I insert the FLASH-CARD from my HP digital camera in the FLASH-DRIVE on my PC. Nothing happens now, It worked great for 2 years.How do I get the wizard back so I can unload my camera using the flash-card in the flashdrive?I have WXP-Home/SP2. I downloaded some XP security updates but don't know if they caused the problem.
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Jun 17, 2009
after upgrading to adobe flash 9 i can no longer play flash, like Internet, etc. when i try to install it again it fails everytime. i even tried installing in safe mode. i have windows xp. sorry.. i can't remember the error, i'll have to try it again to see.what's going on with adobe? i also had trouble with the pdf reader on explorer and had to reinstall.
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Oct 20, 2005
When I click on start=>programs=>accessories=>system tools,its shows empty.I would like to know how can I restore my system tools as I would want to perform a system restore for my PC.
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Aug 14, 2008
once the on button was pushed, it came up with the BIOS screen asking for the password.I removed the CMOS battery, which allowed me to change the Password so I can get onto BIOS now. However, when I boot now it just comes up with the BIOS screen.I set HD to boot first, aswell as setting the clock and date. I then ask it to save and quit, after which it shut's down, and reboots, only, BIOS keeps coming up. And I need to get this sorted asap
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Oct 21, 2009
I have had windows XP Pro installed, updated and running fine until about a week ago. I was away from home for about a week and left the machine plugged into the mains but powered down. When I returned home to boot up, it kept doing things like constantly hanging on parts of the bios POST screen, eventually booting up after thirty or so complete restarts. It finally booted into windows but after the last shutting down, it will now not boot up at all. I have replaced the bios battery and reset the bios several times.
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Apr 7, 2007
When I turn on my computer, it does the bios check, then goes into the bios screen on its own. I have checked all of the bios settings, and see nothing set wrong. The only way I can get itno my xp pro system, is to use "F8" during the bios check, the select my hd from there, then it seems only half of my programs work, and it also seems to be randomly changing the programs that do not work, when I do this.
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Aug 10, 2006
Got a bit of a problem with my housemates pc.A friend gave him some extra RAM, i checked it out and it was crucial 512mb pc2100 CL2.5, and although it didn't match his exsisting RAM it seemed to me that his mobo would only run the FSB at 200mhz anyway so i went ahead and fitted it.It worked fine I then noticed his system temp was running a little high (60-65 degrees), so i took his heatsink off and cleaned the dust and refitted it with some new thermal compound.I added too much and the temp went up. To nearly 90 degrees.I shut it dwon as i didn't want the cpu to pop, cleaned it off, reapplied less compound and figured this would work fine.Now we have the problem. Most of the time: Power on and nothing happens. No bios, no beeps. Occasionally: Power on, i jump into the bios, the temp looks fine (30-40 degrees) and then it freezes right there in the bios after about 30 seconds to a minute.This sounds like a heat issue, but the last temp reading before freeze is 33 degrees.?I've double and triple checked that the heatsink is on properly and thats fine. I followed the official guide on how much compound to use (a blob the size of an uncooked short grain of rice).
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Aug 18, 2008
I have ibm thinkpad R51 2887 nq2 series .My system has been crashed as it is not starting.The whole system gets hang after showing the first ibm screen. The bios utility setup is not getting opened through access ibm button . In safe mode it shows that system BIOS and video BIOS is not working and it has been shadowed.sometimes the system gets started ,but after one minute ,it stucks and the whole system paused and nothing happens.It may be the virus attack on BIOS and it also changes the time and date configuration of BIOS. so what should i do .And how i can install BIOS driver to the system.
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Jan 23, 2007
I just flashed/upgraded my BIOS for my motherboard, and now XP doesn't even boot up.
After the BIOS load, I get a "MBR error 2" message and it just stays there.
My board is an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. I used the Asus Update Utility to flash my BIOS.
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May 11, 2005
I updated my xp home edition with sp2 but upon doing it, i lost my windows media player with all my songs in their specific folders .and lost my soundcard settings, it showed as zero modem.so i did a recovery back to how i had my system and the media player and the speaker icon which shows my settings are back. I checked in control panel to see if i could find the settings i had before (Creative SB live), but it didn't give me the options of soundblaster, just showed "zero modem" ,in other words my sound card seemed to be disabled/lost. I then clicked on my windows media icon, and it would direct me to get the newest version which i did, but then it would not play "anything". My sister has almost the same system and she upgraded without losing anything, why am i losing my windows media and speaker icon on my notification area. im fairly computer savvy, but this has me stumped.
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Dec 29, 2006
Will be building a new system down the road and was going to use XP for the OS. I found a place online that has the retail version of XP Home with Service Pack 1 for $141.My question is, can I take a recent SP2 disc from Microsoft and use it to update the above to SP2? If so, it would save me about $38 vs buying the retail version of XP Home with SP2 already on it from the same place.
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Apr 15, 2005
I just recently bought a laptop and i'm trying to update it to SP2 but i always get this error Error Code: FFFFFC06 so it stop there and do nothing else.
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Feb 26, 2009
I believe that One of the computers which I own has a virus that prevents me from updating AVG. Recently the auto update has not been working, however today when I try to download it manually it does not find the page, I have tried several times but it hasn't worked.
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Jul 20, 2005
I had 2000 for the longest time but i thought id switch to XP. So i upgraded it and got through all of the setups and when its goes to XP for the first time. It freezes and the screen is all scrunched up and
the logo is all stretched out. Ive formatted it and loaded just that.Nothing seems to work. The wired thing is, that it works in safe mode fine. But when i put it in regular mode it does the loading of the icon
witht he loading bar and then it shows the scrnched up screen thing.
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May 20, 2006
since I've not been able to update since way back in December (as far as NET Framework updates)...what's the quickest way to start over on this worthless item since I can't download particular programs on the Internet, without it? I have Windows XP Media Center SP 2. I also have KB890859 installed. (Added to this crappy lining in my cloud is not being able to get a couple other updates now, i.e. Rollup 2, etc)
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Feb 25, 2009
The last 5 times I have tried to update my OS, it has failed.
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Jan 28, 2007
Windows xp sp2. I can not longer get updates from the windows update page. I can download them fine but once the windows installer tries to install them I get erros..I have IE6.0 and also cant update to 7.0.I cannot figure out why. Also I'm trying to delte Ms-Office XP from my computer and no matter what I try I cannot.It wont leave no matter what I try. Can someone tell me how I can get this out of my system.
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Apr 9, 2010
Well i just reformated my whole pc to get rid of some viruses. But now my drivers have become way out of date. ive easily managed to update my graphics card drivers but i cant find anything else for the rest of my devices. Ive heard of programs that do this for you. Does anyone now of any good FREE driver updating software?
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Nov 7, 2008
i was having trouble updating some programs so i tried dial-a-fix. dial-a-fix did help but now my computer is slow,
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Apr 12, 2008
I updated Windows XP to Service Pack 2 yesterday. After installing and re-booting, the screen resolution and the colours of my monitor have changed (big icons and only four colours), which makes it look like it was in Safe Mode (which it isn't).I have tried to change the screen resolution and the colours under Display properties - Settings, but it only gives me the option of a screen resolution of "640x480 pixels" (the slider won't move) and colour quality of "Lowest 4 bit".I presumed it was a driver issue so I have tried to uninstall the graphics controller in the device manager and re-install it with the latest driver.
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Dec 12, 2007
I have a dell dimension C 21 pc with windows XP home edition service pack 2 which I have had for some months now. I have the free edition of AVG. We are 2 users, I am the main user and my partner is the second user. A problem frequently arises when he switches to his"area" in that an AVG box comes up for updating but then freezes . He then tries to shut it down gets the message "this program is not responding click on end or cancel" so we can't get rid of it.I have spoken to the Dell help line who a) want to charge me for any advice as they say this is nothing to do with the hardware, and only the hardware is guaranteed b) when I complain about this they say I have to get rid of
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Nov 10, 2009
I have some problems with my computer while updating Winrar archive.For example, I have a file named Report.rar consists of 3 files. When I try to add 4th file to the archive, the problem occurs. The process of updating archive is shown for a second, then my computer restart.The problem also occurs when I try to install Avast Home Edition. The progress bar of installation continues but at the same percent, my computer restart. I've tried for another version of Avast, installing Malware Byte, but my computer restart too.After restarting, it shows a dialog says "Microsoft has recovered from a serious error." I simply click OK and my computer works fine, except for updating Winrar archive again or installing Avira and Malware Byte.
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Sep 2, 2005
Since updating to sp2 unable to install printer.Also wizard not avaiable to
install scanner or fax.Can anyoe advise?
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Apr 8, 2008
i created a norton ghost image of a machine, which i deployed onto a new pc. my problem is that when i go to run windows update, it runs through the process, finds a lot of updates, but then fails to run the update. the pc i took the image off would have had the latest updates, but on the new pc it looks like the windows update wont work.
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