[jason6467]

ok, i have been plagues with troubles with my vid card (nvidia 5600 256 meg) i have been on the phone with the tech people from BFG tech where the card was made, there last resort was to have me update my bios. well i did that and it didnt and now i get a checksum error and it ask for a disk, i went ot the Aopen site and pulled the dos based flasher( didnt i mention that i used the windows based one before.. hmmm well now i cant boot the machine and the wondows based flasher come up with a checksum of 62EBH and just sits and does not reflash the chip with the biosupdate? and suggestions before i try out my new 410 shotgun?

Jason

 

[Rockn]

Make and model of the motherboard or PC would be helpful. WHen flashing a BIOS you need to make sure you have the one specifically written for your BIOS or you will get te example we have here of a boat anchor. A 410 is pretty whimpy, you better use a 12 or 10 guage if you want to do it right.

 

[active95]

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Before you'll get all T3 on mobo's ***.. , try a clear of BIOS ( might work, sure as heck can't do any wrong) or if you happen to have a friend with the same mobo as u do , ask nicely if you could swap your CMOS into his machine ( you'll need to do all this while windoze is up and running). Re-flash ( keeping the fingers crossed ) and once done, take CMOS out and try it in your mobo,
Last resort , ask Aopen for a replacement Cmos ( usualy around $ 25 + shipping)
HTH

 

[jason6467]

the mother board is an Aopen MK77MII ,

 

[jason6467]

ok just a note to end this thread, I went in and read the online manual which contained more then the hard copy book for this mother board, I did find that jumping pins would clear cmos and also removing the battery, i unhooked the atx to the board and left it for an hour. I reconnected, reset the jumper and dropped on the battery. Booted to a floppy and ran the dos based flash, it actually worked and came up, i had to reset my values but it did work, unfortunatly the flash did NOT clear up my video problem listed in this hardware section also<is why i started all this> so i went digging further and found out that my mother board was<as they said> not powerfull enough to handle the 5600, I have never heard that before. so anyway. I scrapped the 5600, dropped in the ati 9600 and it's up and screaming. Thank you to all that attempted to help me. I love this forum.

 

[jason6467]

by the way anyone that reads this and has not donated something, I did because the people on here have helped me many time, Please donate and keep this site free.

Jason6467