Restoring BIOS

[preet]

Hi. Recently cleared the BIOS of my Abit IS7-V2 motherboard. And the result
was my system wont display anything on the screen. I can hear the cpu
running that is the POST has loaded but not the BIOS. Is that possible that
the BIOS has completely lost and is there a way to restore it...
THANKS
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[Stefan Reinauer]

* preet  [060408 08:39]:
> Hi. Recently cleared the BIOS of my Abit IS7-V2 motherboard. And the result
> was my system wont display anything on the screen. I can hear the cpu
> running that is the POST has loaded but not the BIOS. Is that possible that
> the BIOS has completely lost and is there a way to restore it...

Hi Preet!

You can find some information here:
http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/FAQ#How_do_I_.28re-.29flash_the_BIOS.3F

If you have a working system with a similar/same bios chip, you can do
bios hot swapping and burn it there, but this might damage your
hardware.

Some companies offer bios flash services for a couple of bucks, that
might be a good option for you.

Stefan

[preet]

Thanks dude. By the way can the BIOS be corrupted by viruse in a certain way?
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[Stefan Reinauer]

* preet  [060408 18:22]:
> Thanks dude. By the way can the BIOS be corrupted by viruse in a certain way?

I indeed saw a system bios quite a while ago which was said to be destroyed
by a bios virus. Haven't seen such a virus myself, but in theory
destroying a bios is a lot simpler than rewriting the bios, so anyone
with miserable coding skills could probably do this.

Stefan

[preet]

Thanks for kind info.
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