[newbie] Award BIOS problem
Hi all, Yesterday I opened my system to see if I can disable my PnP modem somehow, I failed in that process, because it was a Winmodem (jumperless). however something happened, that just failed to boot my PC, I started linux first, it was OK, then I started Windows and it just said "updating system settings" and FROZE, when I hit the reset key, nothing appeared on the screen after that, no beeps, nothing I checked the CPU (Pentium II) and memory on another board (its OK), I'm now suspecting the BIOS chip (Award PCI/ISA 686), any suggestions. Thanks in advance pR!ZnA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Award BIOS problem
Yesterday was the day that the dreaded Chernobyl and other variants activates. Apart from trashing your disk, some of its variants also wipe out your bios. Of course it runs only under winblows so this may explain why your computer booted up fine under linux but keeled over and died under windows. If this is the problem you MAY be able to get a new bios chip from either award or the motherboard manufacturer Hopefully this isn't the problem Cheers: and good luck... Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: pRiZnA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 27 April 2000 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Award BIOS problem Hi all, Yesterday I opened my system to see if I can disable my PnP modem somehow, I failed in that process, because it was a Winmodem (jumperless). however something happened, that just failed to boot my PC, I started linux first, it was OK, then I started Windows and it just said "updating system settings" and FROZE, when I hit the reset key, nothing appeared on the screen after that, no beeps, nothing I checked the CPU (Pentium II) and memory on another board (its OK), I'm now suspecting the BIOS chip (Award PCI/ISA 686), any suggestions. Thanks in advance pR!ZnA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Award BIOS problem
Not really on topic here, but about half the computers in my Computer Science class got hit by Chernobyl yesterday; including mine. Most people probally got it from sharing the pirated programs that students had put on there. Fortunatly I didn't have anything real important on my computer, so they only big loss is reinstalling Windows. And since I used Linux to view all the disks I had brought home from school, my computer at home wasn't infected. Thank goodness for Linux : ) I'm going to see if maybe I can't convince my CS teacher to let me install Linux on my computer, but I doubt it'll happen. Yesterday was the day that the dreaded Chernobyl and other variants activates. Apart from trashing your disk, some of its variants also wipe out your bios. Of course it runs only under winblows so this may explain why your computer booted up fine under linux but keeled over and died under windows. If this is the problem you MAY be able to get a new bios chip from either award or the motherboard manufacturer Hopefully this isn't the problem Cheers: and good luck... Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: pRiZnA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 27 April 2000 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Award BIOS problem Hi all, Yesterday I opened my system to see if I can disable my PnP modem somehow, I failed in that process, because it was a Winmodem (jumperless). however something happened, that just failed to boot my PC, I started linux first, it was OK, then I started Windows and it just said "updating system settings" and FROZE, when I hit the reset key, nothing appeared on the screen after that, no beeps, nothing I checked the CPU (Pentium II) and memory on another board (its OK), I'm now suspecting the BIOS chip (Award PCI/ISA 686), any suggestions. Thanks in advance pR!ZnA __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Award BIOS problem
Found this utility if you've been hit by the CIH virus: http://grc.com/cih.htm Page says it can sometimes recover your data. Can't personally vouch for it though, I've not tried it. Regards, Nathan Hopper -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= the webcam to end all webcams http://jennings.yi.org/webcam/ Not really on topic here, but about half the computers in my Computer Science class got hit by Chernobyl yesterday; including mine. Most people probally got it from sharing the pirated programs that students had put on there. Fortunatly I didn't have anything real important on my computer, so they only big loss is reinstalling Windows. And since I used Linux to view all the disks I had brought home from school, my computer at home wasn't infected. Thank goodness for Linux : ) I'm going to see if maybe I can't convince my CS teacher to let me install Linux on my computer, but I doubt it'll happen.
