David Gillett wrote:
>
> On 27 Apr 99, at 17:10, Sherif Safwat wrote:
>
> >   Can any one say how to make MoBo which hit by CIH life agian , are
> > there any wqy to get it bach its BIOS agian  ?
>
>   Apparently what this virus does to the motherboard is to reprogram the
> "flash" BIOS ROM.  [But also see below....]
>
>   To fix this, you need a spare ROM, or another machine with the same
> motherboard.  You need to boot with a good ROM, use a flash utility to make a
> copy of the good ROM to a file, remove the good ROM and insert the corrupted
> one, use the flash utility to reprogram the corrupted chip with the good copy.
>
>   You might not wish to try this at home; it's the sort of thing you might
> prefer to pay a professional to do.  Probably the worst that can happen is
> that you get confused and destroy/corrupt the good BIOS in addition to the
> one the virus got....
>
>   [] Note that this virus *also* overwrites about the first 2000 blocks of
> hard disk, including the partition table, FAT and root directory; recovering
> from this could be somewhat harder.
>
> David G
>
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Dear Mr.David ,

You answer sounds good , Do you know where to doenload a flash BOIS
utility , Can I replace the BIOS ROM IC While the PC is ON ?

Thanks for your help
--
Sherif Safwat

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