Bios Recovery Problem.

Hi,

I have a nasty problem. Long story short: needed to upgrade my bios,
in spite of precautions it failed and turned my pc into useless scraps
of metal . I know that there is a way to boot your pc holding ctrl +
home to load the good bios, but this is what I don't get. Every
support site tells me that with an ami bios, I just need to rename the
..rom file into amibios.rom and do the ctrl + home thing, and if I have
an award bios, I need to make a bootdisk. I can't seem to figure out
what I have. I downloaded the original bios (which I tried to upgrade
from) which has two files: AMIFL827 and a6398iMS.310. Since the first
file said AMI I figured this would have to be an AMI bios (Even though
I think I remember the word Award bios flashing before me day after
day ) so I tried the amiboot.rom rename thing but ofcourse this
didn't work because it wasn't a .rom file in the first place. Then I
made an autoexec.bat file with these lines:

A:\AMIFL827 a6398iMS.310 /A /py /sn /Sb /cd /cp /cc /R

But when I boot my pc with this floppy in it, nothing happens (which I
expected, but this was supposed to be the way to do it.) Can anyone
please help me what to do? I'm kinda lost

"MaG" <martin@mag-entertainment.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a nasty problem. Long story short: needed to upgrade my bios,
> in spite of precautions it failed and turned my pc into useless scraps
> of metal . I know that there is a way to boot your pc holding ctrl +
> home to load the good bios, but this is what I don't get. Every
> support site tells me that with an ami bios, I just need to rename the
> .rom file into amibios.rom and do the ctrl + home thing, and if I have
> an award bios, I need to make a bootdisk. I can't seem to figure out
> what I have. I downloaded the original bios (which I tried to upgrade
> from) which has two files: AMIFL827 and a6398iMS.310. Since the first
> file said AMI I figured this would have to be an AMI bios (Even though
> I think I remember the word Award bios flashing before me day after
> day ) so I tried the amiboot.rom rename thing but ofcourse this
> didn't work because it wasn't a .rom file in the first place. Then I
> made an autoexec.bat file with these lines:
>
> A:\AMIFL827 a6398iMS.310 /A /py /sn /Sb /cd /cp /cc /R
>
> But when I boot my pc with this floppy in it, nothing happens (which I
> expected, but this was supposed to be the way to do it.) Can anyone
> please help me what to do? I'm kinda lost

What make & model of motherboard do you have?
Where is the support site that you're getting the BIOS from?

This site should have the mb manuals available. Buried in the back
of most of them are the emergency boot block recovery procedures.
Obviously, these vary by BIOS brand, so you have to be sure
which brand you're using.

Bob