Thanks,

I found a company (www.arlabs.com) that has designed a machine, the "Bios
Backup and Repair Kit", that works this way: you plug their bios programming
machine into the parallele port of a working computer.  You install the
software that comes with it.  This software will read the bios file that you
can download for your motherboard. You then pull out the bios chip with a
small tool (available at radioshack) from the non working motherboard, you
install it in this machine and then the software will do what Aflash does:
it will erase the chip and reprogramme it.  Then, you just pull out the chip
and reinstall it in the motherboard.  This machine is said to be used when
the motherboard is really dead and you think the bios could be the problem.

Did anyone ever tried this?

Andre Chiasson




>From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Andre, I don't think this question makes sense.  I'll explain.  BIOS are
>software programs.  They can be
>written in any language and compiled into machine-executable code.  I
>suspect that most are written in
>assembler, but they could be written in C or whatever.  Then the code is
>copied to  a prom which is
>installed on the motherboard.
>
>The kind of thing that you are suggesting is working backwards from the
>code, reverse compiling.
>What you would have to do is read the prom and dis-assemble it, then alter
>the code, re-assemble
>it, and burn a new prom.  I don't think that you would want to "install"
>the
>bios in your machine
>that is doing the programming.
>
>I have seen your name on pcbuild before, so I assume that you are computer
>literate enough to see
>what I am talking about, but I will be glad to follow up if you have
>questions.
>
>I want to point out that I have never written bios, so I may be all wrong,
>but I do have experience
>programming in both C and assembler as well as other languages.
>
>HTH
>
>Dean Kukral
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- Any idea of an excellent bios programming
>tool?
>The type of machine that is
>independent of the computer and in which you install the bios for
>reprogramming.
>
>Thank you!
>André Chiasson
>
>
>


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