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Old January 20, 2008, 10:00 PM
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Does anybody konow of a good CANADIAN based service that can burn BIOS chips. My BIOS got messed up by a bad flash and I really don't want to wait a month for a new chip shipped from the US.
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Old January 20, 2008, 11:09 PM
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what motherboard? perhaps one of us up here would be willing to hot-flash it for you. also, where are you located?
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Old January 21, 2008, 12:25 AM
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Ou, hotflashing a BIOS, that's always good fun. Always gets me nervous
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Old January 21, 2008, 01:04 AM
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My friend cooked a motherboard hot-flashing it, so I don't like recommending doing it (I can't remember which board it was, this was a few years ago now).
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Old January 21, 2008, 08:32 AM
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Does anybody konow of a good CANADIAN based service that can burn BIOS chips. My BIOS got messed up by a bad flash and I really don't want to wait a month for a new chip shipped from the US.
Try my blind bios flashing technique : http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...html#post26276
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Old January 21, 2008, 10:51 AM
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What board?
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Old January 21, 2008, 12:03 PM
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Yeah, I know Elan Games...They moved to a tiny little location downtown. Great staff tho. I can't stand the software Asus includes for BIOS flashing. This is the second time I have had a flash go bad on one of their boards. And their tech staff suck. It's depressing because I haven't even had the chance to play a single game on the new 8800 GT. Oh well, at least I know once this is fixed all is well. Maybe next time I will go with somebody else, like EVGA. I was thinking of picking up their 780i board anyways. Thanks for the help guys. I gotta go pick up a floppy drive (can't believe I don't have one lying around) and see what happens.
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Old January 21, 2008, 12:17 PM
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Old January 21, 2008, 12:21 PM
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Also, I am located in Peterborough Ont. I am going to try that floppy disk thing tonight. Does it have to bet the exact same BIOS flash file (ie. .BIN) on the floppy when I do it or can I go ahead and load the pdate that I was doing in the first place?
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Old January 21, 2008, 12:37 PM
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with most newer Asus boards there is a BIOS recovery option i believe. never had to try it but go with what Synth recommended and if that doesn't work, download the manual from the Asus site and see what it says about recovering a BIOS.
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