BIOS dead

50Twuncle

Yes - why ?

50Twuncle

Are you saying that I can use a flash drive (USB) - Because I very much doubt whether the drivers will be available !!
My problem is going to be getting the file on to the floppy in the first place !

NiftyDigits

Because you appear a little confused.

Here they are again:

For AMI BIOS

Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a floppy disk. e.g. Rename A7366MLN.40C to AMIBOOT.ROM

Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system and press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. It will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive.

When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk and restart the computer.

You need only the file named A7366MLN.40C, which you rename.
As to the floppy disc, find someone who has a another machine or pop into an Internet cafe, upload the file to your email and drag it to the Floppy.
Use your imagination.

Toxteth_OGrady

Might be worth trying a power-on with Ctrl + Home held to see if it attempts to initialise the disk controller(s), to check that the boot block isn't corrupted.

I believe the home key you need to press is the one on the number pad and you may need to use a ps/2 keyboard.

50Twuncle

Right - tomorrow I will buy an internal floppy drive (assuming that the connections are still there in my PC to accept it ??) find a PC with a floppy and copy the files to floppy and do this - I will let you know how I get on...

Thanks

NiftyDigits

21Twinkle wrote: »

Right - tomorrow I will buy an internal floppy drive (assuming that the connections are still there in my PC to accept it ??) find a PC with a floppy and copy the files to floppy and do this - I will let you know how I get on...

Thanks

Your Motherboard has the connector, though not sure if you will need any extra cables.
File, not files.

NiftyDigits

As an added precaution, you may wish to extract the ROM file again directly from the Medion download, in order to be more confident that the file is not corrupted before attempting recovery.

50Twuncle

NiftyDigits wrote: »

As an added precaution, you may wish to extract the ROM file again directly from the Medion download, in order to be more confident that the file is not corrupted before attempting recovery.

Thats what caused the problem in the first place! !!

NiftyDigits

21Twinkle wrote: »

Thats what caused the problem in the first place! !!

No, the extraction just reveals the files.

It was you running the flash.bat from within Windows that started you on the rocky road.
Flashes from within Windows are more prone to fail.
Anyone experienced with BIOS will always recommend a flash from DOS.

Were you running Vista or Windows 7?

50Twuncle

NiftyDigits wrote: »

No, the extraction just reveals the files.

It was you running the flash.bat from within Windows that started you on the rocky road.
Flashes from within Windows are more prone to fail.
Anyone experienced with BIOS will always recommend a flash from DOS.

Were you running Vista or Windows 7?

Windows 7 64bit