Urgent! Bios Error On Windows Boot

[doglover]

Hello ! I just flashed my bios that came today with the proper one
id'd by sales at e support. It was a Ami Bios and the upgrade disk
flash said everything was totally successful. I took disk out like
suggested and rebooted and after the id of master and slaves I got one
error reported on screen saying I/O error at 2E8 Conflict.

Everything was fine prior to flash with no errors. It has 3 hard
drives and two cd roms in it. I tried restoring to orginal values
which it said it saved as orginal.bin but when chosen it only goes
back to new flash. You ask why! I was told to accept newer wireless
things and make everything communicate smoother this was the way to
go.

Now all my machine does is goes to Win Xp splash screen the black one
and hangs. Sounds like no hard drives spin up. Any ideas or help.
Remember this was flash upgrade and not a install of the bios. And
by the way changing that 2ed to a 2f8 resulted in same problem. Stuck
at Win Xp screen. All hard drives are set to auto detect. Nick

[Jim Macklin]

A Flash upgrade rewrites the whole BIOS. Do you know the
make and model of your motherboard? Best to go to their
website and download the proper BIOS, sounds like the sales
people sent you the wrong disk.

BTW, what problem were you trying to solve with the BIOS
update?


"doglover" > wrote in message
...
| Hello ! I just flashed my bios that came today with the
proper one
| id'd by sales at e support. It was a Ami Bios and the
upgrade disk
| flash said everything was totally successful. I took disk
out like
| suggested and rebooted and after the id of master and
slaves I got one
| error reported on screen saying I/O error at 2E8 Conflict.
|
| Everything was fine prior to flash with no errors. It has
3 hard
| drives and two cd roms in it. I tried restoring to orginal
values
| which it said it saved as orginal.bin but when chosen it
only goes
| back to new flash. You ask why! I was told to accept newer
wireless
| things and make everything communicate smoother this was
the way to
| go.
|
| Now all my machine does is goes to Win Xp splash screen
the black one
| and hangs. Sounds like no hard drives spin up. Any ideas
or help.
| Remember this was flash upgrade and not a install of the
bios. And
| by the way changing that 2ed to a 2f8 resulted in same
problem. Stuck
| at Win Xp screen. All hard drives are set to auto detect.
Nick

[doglover]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:30:48 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
> wrote:

>A Flash upgrade rewrites the whole BIOS. Do you know the
>make and model of your motherboard? Best to go to their
>website and download the proper BIOS, sounds like the sales
>people sent you the wrong disk.
>
>BTW, what problem were you trying to solve with the BIOS
>update?
>
>
>"doglover" > wrote in message
...
>| Hello ! I just flashed my bios that came today with the
>proper one
>| id'd by sales at e support. It was a Ami Bios and the
>upgrade disk
>| flash said everything was totally successful. I took disk
>out like
>| suggested and rebooted and after the id of master and
>slaves I got one
>| error reported on screen saying I/O error at 2E8 Conflict.
>|
>| Everything was fine prior to flash with no errors. It has
>3 hard
>| drives and two cd roms in it. I tried restoring to orginal
>values
>| which it said it saved as orginal.bin but when chosen it
>only goes
>| back to new flash. You ask why! I was told to accept newer
>wireless
>| things and make everything communicate smoother this was
>the way to
>| go.
>|
>| Now all my machine does is goes to Win Xp splash screen
>the black one
>| and hangs. Sounds like no hard drives spin up. Any ideas
>or help.
>| Remember this was flash upgrade and not a install of the
>bios. And
>| by the way changing that 2ed to a 2f8 resulted in same
>problem. Stuck
>| at Win Xp screen. All hard drives are set to auto detect.
>Nick
>
It is a Tyan BX 440 Motherboard. Orginally I had Me on it and Wanted
upgrade to Xp. I was having alot of problems with Me and he said it
was the old bios not communicating with newer devices like USB and
Wireless link I have for it. Nick

[doglover]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:01:04 -0700, "Andrew E" >
wrote:

> First clear the CMOS,the jumper is usually in lower middle area,set the pin
> from,1-2 to 2-3,hold for 10 seconds or so,then return it to 1-2 position.
> Then open BIOS,set youre display adapter as needed (advanced chipset),
> then exit page,select,load set-up defaults,exit BIOS.If you still have problems,
> did you dwnload and install the correct version for board,if all is true,you might
> have damaged the BIOS when flashing,it does happen.Contact mfg of board.
Orginally there was no upgrades and I was assured this was the one. It
does have all the same splash info except the newer face and all so
seems like right one that way only for what I know. They did send a
clear cmos disk which I did not use becasue that was for new install
of bios chips. I only flash upgraded. Why did disk say everything
sucessful and then say to remove and reboot. Is haveing the drive set
to NFTS a problem. Again I know a little but not technical stuff. Nick

[CS]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:19:40 -0400, doglover >
wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:01:04 -0700, "Andrew E" >
>wrote:
>
>> First clear the CMOS,the jumper is usually in lower middle area,set the pin
>> from,1-2 to 2-3,hold for 10 seconds or so,then return it to 1-2 position.
>> Then open BIOS,set youre display adapter as needed (advanced chipset),
>> then exit page,select,load set-up defaults,exit BIOS.If you still have problems,
>> did you dwnload and install the correct version for board,if all is true,you might
>> have damaged the BIOS when flashing,it does happen.Contact mfg of board.

>Orginally there was no upgrades and I was assured this was the one. It
>does have all the same splash info except the newer face and all so
>seems like right one that way only for what I know. They did send a
>clear cmos disk which I did not use becasue that was for new install
>of bios chips. I only flash upgraded. Why did disk say everything
>sucessful and then say to remove and reboot. Is haveing the drive set
>to NFTS a problem. Again I know a little but not technical stuff. Nick

First, the Intel 440BX chipset is an old chipset and is not ACPI
compatible for XP. It works OK, but none of the ACPI features of XP
can be used. Having said that, it appears the E-Support guys sent you
a BIOS flash upgrade that's not completely compatible. Send them back
the disk and get your money back. A flash BIOS upgrade for that
chipset is a waste of money as it is too old.

The flash BIOS routine should have saved your old BIOS to disk (if you
selected that option). Just reinstall your old BIOS.

[doglover]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:36:48 -0500, CS > wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:19:40 -0400, doglover >
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:01:04 -0700, "Andrew E" >
>>wrote:
>>
>>> First clear the CMOS,the jumper is usually in lower middle area,set the pin
>>> from,1-2 to 2-3,hold for 10 seconds or so,then return it to 1-2 position.
>>> Then open BIOS,set youre display adapter as needed (advanced chipset),
>>> then exit page,select,load set-up defaults,exit BIOS.If you still have problems,
>>> did you dwnload and install the correct version for board,if all is true,you might
>>> have damaged the BIOS when flashing,it does happen.Contact mfg of board.
>
>>Orginally there was no upgrades and I was assured this was the one. It
>>does have all the same splash info except the newer face and all so
>>seems like right one that way only for what I know. They did send a
>>clear cmos disk which I did not use becasue that was for new install
>>of bios chips. I only flash upgraded. Why did disk say everything
>>sucessful and then say to remove and reboot. Is haveing the drive set
>>to NFTS a problem. Again I know a little but not technical stuff. Nick
>
>First, the Intel 440BX chipset is an old chipset and is not ACPI
>compatible for XP. It works OK, but none of the ACPI features of XP
>can be used. Having said that, it appears the E-Support guys sent you
>a BIOS flash upgrade that's not completely compatible. Send them back
>the disk and get your money back. A flash BIOS upgrade for that
>chipset is a waste of money as it is too old.
>
>The flash BIOS routine should have saved your old BIOS to disk (if you
>selected that option). Just reinstall your old BIOS.
>
Tried that and I tried a few things and I imagine it rewrote that over
and besides now I have the disk formatted hoping to reinstall Windows
and gets frooze on install now too. Besides the money I can't get the
machine back to old normal and lost my system and data besides and
can't get it reinstalled. Any ideas? Nick

[NobodyMan]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:19:40 -0400, doglover >
wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:01:04 -0700, "Andrew E" >
>wrote:
>
>> First clear the CMOS,the jumper is usually in lower middle area,set the pin
>> from,1-2 to 2-3,hold for 10 seconds or so,then return it to 1-2 position.
>> Then open BIOS,set youre display adapter as needed (advanced chipset),
>> then exit page,select,load set-up defaults,exit BIOS.If you still have problems,
>> did you dwnload and install the correct version for board,if all is true,you might
>> have damaged the BIOS when flashing,it does happen.Contact mfg of board.
>Orginally there was no upgrades and I was assured this was the one. It
>does have all the same splash info except the newer face and all so
>seems like right one that way only for what I know. They did send a
>clear cmos disk which I did not use becasue that was for new install
>of bios chips. I only flash upgraded. Why did disk say everything
>sucessful and then say to remove and reboot. Is haveing the drive set
>to NFTS a problem. Again I know a little but not technical stuff. Nick

The drive set to NTFS is not a problem. The BIOS could care less what
file system is on the drive. It could care less if there was no file
system on the drive. That is what the OS uses, which isn't in
operation until the BIOS self checks then starts the boot loader to
access and turn control of boot over to the OS.

[CS]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:14:15 -0400, doglover >
wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:36:48 -0500, CS > wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:19:40 -0400, doglover >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:01:04 -0700, "Andrew E" >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> First clear the CMOS,the jumper is usually in lower middle area,set the pin
>>>> from,1-2 to 2-3,hold for 10 seconds or so,then return it to 1-2 position.
>>>> Then open BIOS,set youre display adapter as needed (advanced chipset),
>>>> then exit page,select,load set-up defaults,exit BIOS.If you still have problems,
>>>> did you dwnload and install the correct version for board,if all is true,you might
>>>> have damaged the BIOS when flashing,it does happen.Contact mfg of board.
>>
>>>Orginally there was no upgrades and I was assured this was the one. It
>>>does have all the same splash info except the newer face and all so
>>>seems like right one that way only for what I know. They did send a
>>>clear cmos disk which I did not use becasue that was for new install
>>>of bios chips. I only flash upgraded. Why did disk say everything
>>>sucessful and then say to remove and reboot. Is haveing the drive set
>>>to NFTS a problem. Again I know a little but not technical stuff. Nick
>>
>>First, the Intel 440BX chipset is an old chipset and is not ACPI
>>compatible for XP. It works OK, but none of the ACPI features of XP
>>can be used. Having said that, it appears the E-Support guys sent you
>>a BIOS flash upgrade that's not completely compatible. Send them back
>>the disk and get your money back. A flash BIOS upgrade for that
>>chipset is a waste of money as it is too old.
>>
>>The flash BIOS routine should have saved your old BIOS to disk (if you
>>selected that option). Just reinstall your old BIOS.
>>
>Tried that and I tried a few things and I imagine it rewrote that over
>and besides now I have the disk formatted hoping to reinstall Windows
>and gets frooze on install now too. Besides the money I can't get the
>machine back to old normal and lost my system and data besides and
>can't get it reinstalled. Any ideas? Nick

Hi Nick:

Looks like you're dead in the water with nowhere to go. At this
point, it's probably best to gather your losses and start new.

I recommend getting a new motherboard and memory if you can afford it.
Like I mentioned before, the 440BX chipset is old and will not perform
well with XP (or Win2000) since it is not ACPI compatible. Most new
motherboards are designed to be ACPI compatible and have many new
features which are used by XP.

You might want to take a look at the new offerings from AMD. Their
CPUs and the motherboards designed for them are inexpensive and
perform very well in XP. Anyway, that's where you'll get the most
bang for your $$$.

You can salvage your old motherboard and use it perhaps to run Win98
or 98SE. The 440BX will perform well with Win9X and is compatible for
the version of ACPI used with 9X/ME. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Regards.