MotherBoard Bios Screw Up

hello everyone

i seem to of fell victim to the HP Bios Update problem, as i didnt do my research first i didnt know that it never works. now all my computer does is sit there with a blank screen for 5-10 minutes, then i get:

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

BIOS ROM Cjecksum error

detecting iDE ATAPI Device
Found CDROM, try to boot from it.....Fail

INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

i've been following this thread
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=200149

its pretty much the same problem except i have an ASUS P5PL-LE

ive tried barts freedos solution and keep getting ROOT FAT KERNAL GO!

plz help

 

Hi,

Which HP model PC do you have and which softpaq did you use for the BIOS flash?

We have to find a working BIOS file to reflash. Have you found a link to a working BIOS file in your research and just need help getting it to CD?

 

I have a HP Pavillion Media Centre M7575a
I think I have a working file, I downloaded the bios update from HP and opened the exe with winrar and retrieved flash.exe and 317.rom
I don't know what u mean by softpaq

 

That link leads to a furniture store in new york

 

I think the easiest way is to use a CD if you have a blank one available. Using a USB flash drive is a bit more complicated to get it bootable.

Softpaq is just a naming convention for an HP file such as the current BIOS is inside SP35100. The current BIOS is 319.rom. If you are sure the 317.rom is correct for your machine I can put together an ISO file for you to burn to CD for the flash. I'm guessing you have read a thread where the 317.rom worked for others in your situation?

You can give me a link to the file you extracted the 317.rom file from or I can give you instructions for building your own ISO to burn to CD.

 

here is the bios:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4pnb5zdhqhtpnvd

 

whoops i re-read ur post properly, i cant find it anywhere it was on a recovery disc i shredded earlier but here is the latest one from hp site
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...t=3262449&query=m7575a&sw_lang=&swlinkmsg=100

 

I couldn't get both versions of the BIOS on a single CD so I put two versions together.

One has 317.rom and one has 319.rom. It is up to you which one you use. I haven't read any threads on your particular model so don't know if v.319 is a problem or if it is just a bad flash from Windows. My guess is either will work. The awdflash program should give you an error if the file is incompatible with your system.

317CD is here.

319CD is here.

Download the ISO and burn it as an image file to CD. Imgburn can do it using the "Write Image File to Disc" option. Boot from the CD. At the A:> prompt type in

awdflash 317.rom
or
awdflash 319.rom


See if it accepts the .rom file. If it accepts it should say something about don't turn off computer and when finished go back to the A: prompt. Then reboot without CD and see if it will start normally.

 

thanks, ill give em a go and see if it works

 

319 worked perfectly first go, thank you soooo much!!!!!!

 

Great! You are welcome.

Thanks for letting others know that 319.rom is a valid BIOS file and that the problem was with the HP Windows flash program. It should help others who might have the same problem.