HP a1640n bios Hi all! I have a HP a1640n which is using an Asus p5bw-la "Buckeye" motherboard with Award Bios. I was upgrading the bios when the computer crashed and not the machine is useless. I did not have it set for flash drive boot so it only boots from a floppy or CD. I downloaded the 317.rom file and sp35153_HP_SLIC.rar files but I have a few problems. 1) How do I create a boot CD to fit all the files onto a CD since the total file size is larger than a 1.44 floppy. 2) When I tried other flash programs in DOS, I kept getting a existing bios does not match type error. Any help is greatly appreciated.
alternatively Does anyone know which chip on the motherboard is the PLCC with the bios? I know someone with a programmer that can program the chip directly with the bin file but no where on the web or HP site, does it say which chip contains the bios. I was thinking it could be the ASUS F8000 but that seemed large for a bios chip. Thanks again.
It is beta bios so it maybe it's less tolerant to changes. Glad you're able to recover. Let's see how the ISA version goes, since that worked for F7.