Ok before I explain anything about this topic, you need to know that you can seriously damage your motherboard or bios chip by doing this procedure. With that said, I am in no way responsible for anything that may happen to your motherboard, or bios chip or computer.
WHY TO HOTSWAP.
* You tried to flash your bios, but something happened and your bios wont load. You have tried every other way that this board has to offer, but still to no evail.
* You are a serious risk taker and want to try this.
What is a HotSwap?
A hot swap is when you take your bios chip out of your motherboard, and put a different bios chip in. The chip has to be the same bios chip version and make. The easiest way to do this is to ask a friend who also has the same motherboard as you, if you can borrow their chip, knowing full well that you can ruin both of them. with this in mind, and they actually let you borrow their chip you put their chip in your board and start it up. You need to make a dos boot disk and get to the dos prompt. when at the dos prompt you switch chips and flash your bios. easy right?
How-To.
1. Put the "borrowed" bios chip in your board.
2. Clear your CMOS by switching the jumpers from normal to clear and back.
3. Start your computer.
4. Make a DOS Boot Disk ( a boot disk that boots to a DOS Prompt)
5. Make a disk that has the flash program (aimf33 or what ever you use) and the correct BIOS ROM your bios came with stock.
6. Restart your computer and switch your bios to boot from floppy first.
7. Place your DOS Boot Disk into the drive and restart.
8. Once at the dos prompt, take the "borrowed" BIOS chip out or the computer and put your non-functional bios chip in. (this all must be done with the computer on)
9. After you finish putting the old chip in, flash the bios. the dos should look like this...
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Flashprogram[space]yourbiosrom.rom the space is important, you have to have it or else you will get an error. the flash program you use and rom are easy to find. just look around on this site untill you find the ones you need. you will also want to look for a more indepth flash procedure.
REMEBER, YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR TIME SWITCHING BIOS CHIPS, THEY ARE DURABLE, BUT LIKE ALL ELECTRONICS ARE NOT MADE TO TAKE EXTENSIVE ABUSE. BE CAREFUL AND USE A SMALL FLAT OBJECT TO REMOVE THE CHIPS.
WHY TO HOTSWAP.
* You tried to flash your bios, but something happened and your bios wont load. You have tried every other way that this board has to offer, but still to no evail.
* You are a serious risk taker and want to try this.
What is a HotSwap?
A hot swap is when you take your bios chip out of your motherboard, and put a different bios chip in. The chip has to be the same bios chip version and make. The easiest way to do this is to ask a friend who also has the same motherboard as you, if you can borrow their chip, knowing full well that you can ruin both of them. with this in mind, and they actually let you borrow their chip you put their chip in your board and start it up. You need to make a dos boot disk and get to the dos prompt. when at the dos prompt you switch chips and flash your bios. easy right?
How-To.
1. Put the "borrowed" bios chip in your board.
2. Clear your CMOS by switching the jumpers from normal to clear and back.
3. Start your computer.
4. Make a DOS Boot Disk ( a boot disk that boots to a DOS Prompt)
5. Make a disk that has the flash program (aimf33 or what ever you use) and the correct BIOS ROM your bios came with stock.
6. Restart your computer and switch your bios to boot from floppy first.
7. Place your DOS Boot Disk into the drive and restart.
8. Once at the dos prompt, take the "borrowed" BIOS chip out or the computer and put your non-functional bios chip in. (this all must be done with the computer on)
9. After you finish putting the old chip in, flash the bios. the dos should look like this...
A
Flashprogram[space]yourbiosrom.rom the space is important, you have to have it or else you will get an error. the flash program you use and rom are easy to find. just look around on this site untill you find the ones you need. you will also want to look for a more indepth flash procedure. REMEBER, YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR TIME SWITCHING BIOS CHIPS, THEY ARE DURABLE, BUT LIKE ALL ELECTRONICS ARE NOT MADE TO TAKE EXTENSIVE ABUSE. BE CAREFUL AND USE A SMALL FLAT OBJECT TO REMOVE THE CHIPS.
