Re: BIOS boot problem

On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:06:54 -0300, Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:12:56 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>I think my old 2008 homebuilt Abit pc is finally coming to the end of
>>its journey. It has started hanging on the boot at the truck picture
>>logo (where you have the option of Delete-ing into the BIOS). I could
>>press Enter or Tab a few times and it would stagger on, get to my BCD
>>menu and then boot successfully any OS I wanted.
>>
>> I replaced the CMOS battery and all was well -  for a day, next AM it
>>hung again, first boot of the day. The  old battery measured 3.2v
>>after I removed it. The new one had measured 3.3v before I put it in. 
>>
>>I don't think I cleared the BIOS, just stuck the new battery in.
>>
>>Anyone, (Paul?) have any ideas how to save my precious old sweetheart?
>
>	Dunno if BIOS software can suffer from Bit Rot. If it can,
>maybe, just maybe re-flashing with a good image could correct it.
>	Paul probably knows...
>	[]'s
Re-flashing sounds like a resonable last-ditch effort. In my log, on
9-22-08, looks like I flashed my AWD BIOS up to version 11. I'd
downloaded it to a 3.5 floppy. Amazingly I located that 18 year old
floppy! It's readable in Explorer, but wouldn't trust it very far.
Might try copying it to a new diskette, dunno if that would prove
anything, Says I'm supposed to flash from msdos, boot a dos diskette.
Abit's long out of business, no hope of downloading that bin file
again from anywhere.

I guess I could jumper that shorting block, that's supposed to set
BIOS back to what the factory sent me. 

And then again... for the past few days it has been booting without
that hang, so desperation measures on hold. But this type shit never
goes away it just haunts in the background.