dead bios

[Amaury Jacquot]

hi guys
I just attempted to flash my epia M10000 with the official latest bios 
from via (and their stupid awfl<something> program) and the mobo is dead.

what can I do to revive the thing ?

[Richard Smith]

> I just attempted to flash my epia M10000 with the official latest bios
> from via (and their stupid awfl<something> program) and the mobo is dead.

Is the bios chip mounted on the pcb or socketed?

[Amaury Jacquot]

Richard Smith wrote:
> > I just attempted to flash my epia M10000 with the official latest bios
> > from via (and their stupid awfl<something> program) and the mobo is dead.
>
> Is the bios chip mounted on the pcb or socketed?

it's socketed

[Richard Smith]

> > Is the bios chip mounted on the pcb or socketed?
>
> it's socketed

Find someone with a programer and re-burn the chip or send it to me
and I'll program it for you.

Is there not some sort of recovery jumper?

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> what can I do to revive the thing ?

if you have no backup, your best bet is to find another one.

ron

[Amaury Jacquot]

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> > what can I do to revive the thing ?
>
> if you have no backup, your best bet is to find another one.

well, turns out the thing wasn't dead after all. after a good night 
sleep, I woke up and mechanically went and wiggled the "erase CMOS" 
jumper on the "dead" EPIA M-10000. turns out it seems the VGA subsystem 
in the bios is buggy as hell, and selecting things like panel-size makes 
the thing boot but not output anything on the VGA.

Thanks everyone for their help.

Amaury