Commell LV-679 dead BIOS.

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I've killed the BIOS, don't know exactly how it occurred, during an update it just halted and didn't move in, no keys would get me back to the command promt, so I had to switch it off in the end. Resulting in it not booting / black screen.

It's an award BIOS, I guess they've got this dump the BIOS on a floppy disk and switch it on and it'll flash that. Anyone know more info?

I've searched google and there's a few sites but details seem a bit sketchy and nothing recent. I assume there's no way to do it via a CD? I ask as it sits there and looks like a it's reading the disc for a moment, although I can't remember if that's just part of the drives power on self-test.

Any help would be great!
 
Do you remember what the boot order was? CD 1st then HDD etc?

This is the method to recover Award Bios... http://bios-mods.com/recovery.html / http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html

I know it says floppy, but I can't see why you couldn't use a USB stick (as long as it was in your boot selection), so long as it is formatted as bootable using something like the HP Utility... http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

You could probably use a CD too, but again it would need to have been in your boot order and you will need to make it bootable.

The whole idea of the .bat file that you create is that it automaically runs upon booting, so really so long as the media you are using is bootable and listed in your boot order then it should work fine.

If you do decide to give it a go, just leave the USB/CD running for maybe 5-10 minutes before restarting to allow plenty of time for the flash.
 
I don't know about USB but CD definately was in the boot order as i'd installed Windows the previous day from a DVD. I'll have a read of your links, thanks for the quick reply.
 
I don't suppose the recovery process supports USB floppy drives does it anyone? As all i've got is a USB one. I'll have to buy a slimlne floppy drive and ribbon cable if I do have to use a 'built in' floppy.
 
Diggsy said:
Did you try the CD method? If not, give the USB floppy a go.
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I tried the cd method but I don't know if it's formatted right or i've used the right syntax in autoexec.bat or if it's even possible, it's a really exact science as you've got no feedback on the display.

I've found a USB floppy so i'm about to try that, wish me luck! :rolleyes:
 
What are you entering for the bios?

If you are using the bios off the Commell site then make sure you open autoexec with Notepad and type EXACTLY as follows:

@ECHO OFF
@AWDFLASH 67921.BIN /cc /py /sn /r
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Don't forget to add the .bin file to the floppy (or other media if using that) and also the AWDFlash utility too. Oh and don't forget to check that the AWDFlash is named exactly 'awdflash.exe'.
 
After managing to get a floppy drive and a floppy disk! I've slapped Dos622 on there and the autoexec.bat (exactly the same syntax as you suggested Diggsy) along with flasher and BIOS. It seems to boot, as it does a lot of reading from the disk, it must be reading for about 90 seconds. Although i've left it 5 minutes then cycled the power and I still get the beeps and no display so it obviously hasn't worked.. :mad:
 
I did think the board was toast, but it lives again! It didn't work a second time I tried it so I decided to rem out the line in autoexec.bat and do it blind..

awdflash
67921.bin

Anyway seemed to be reading for ages, then there was a beep, then another, then a few more, finally a few short beeps, and it rebooted! WOO HOO

So for future reference it does work from a USB Floppy disk! :D
 
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