Flashing ECS K7S5A Problem, Please Help

[jthwong]

My brother's computer has an ECS K7S5A PCB 1.X

I tried to flash the BIOS and I ran into some trouble. What happened was that the BIOS was successfully copied to the BIOS, but when the computer automatically rebooted, it kept on rebooting itself.

I read that this process is called the BOOT BLOCK, and you're suppose to be able to recover the BIOS by simply inserting a floppy disk with the version of BIOS that you want, but the file on the floppy needs to be renamed AMIBOOT.ROM, and after the computer has flashed the BIOS it will give 4 beeps and reboot.

My problem is that even after I get the 4 beeps, the computer doesn't reboot normally, it keeps going through the BOOT BLOCK over and over.

Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have to do a hot swap?

 

[jukeboxjoe]

Try looking here:
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/index.htm
I built several systems a few years ago with that board and this was an excellent, definitive place to find EVERYTHING about that board.
I didn't encounter your problem. Flashing a different bios may be worth a try. They have a number of them on this site including several for overclocking.
Good Luck!

 

[jthwong]

 

[jthwong]

I forgot to type something...

I just wanted to say thanks for the info.

 

[jthwong]

Does anyone else have any suggestions, cause I still can't seem to get the motherboard to work.

 

[pspada]

You first step should be to try clearing the cmos, as that may clear up any problems. If the problem persists, it may be that there are different bioses available for different revisions of the mobo. If so, you may have used the bios for the rev 5 version on a rev 1 mobo......you did save the old bios before you updated, right?

 

[jthwong]

I finally figured out the problem, and the computer is up and running! Thank you everyone for your help.

 

[jmgonzalez]

and that problem was? It might help putting the solution here in case someone else runs into the same problem.