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 > > PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download > on our web site - visit our download page at: > http://nospin.com/pc/files.html 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 " Do you think you know the truth " PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>