Gateway DX4831-01e BIOS Failed

[marcusj0016]

i cant back them up my bios are curropted here is a link to the bios you guys hacked for me though

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gateway%2...34s282.zip

those are the bios you guys hacked for me

here is the thread you posted them

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ga...DX4831-01E


all i want is a method to flash the bios to my Gateway DX4831 and restore the bios there

even though it wont read the AMIBOOT.ROM file in teh Root of my USB Drive

[marcusj0016]

i need help though

can you please help?

[TheWiz]

Hmmmm, what kind of chip is the BIOS chip, is it a soldered PLCC32?

I'm thinking SPI if supported is the only chance, but just amgically ghost writing to another motherboard that isn't responsive normally worn't work

TheWiz

[marcusj0016]

im not sure of the chip type i know that its soldered in and in know it about twice as big as my old motherboards removable chip which was a PLCC32 Chip now that i looked at your site

[marcusj0016]

i got my 2gb flash drive formated to Fat32 and i make it bootable with the win98 files and then i added the AMIBOOT.ROM fille

it will blink for about 5 seconds then i hear 4 beeps

the only problem is when i turn it on there is no video but i dont hear the power on beeps i used to hear

did it work or did it not work?

i had the original stock bios once apon a time and then i flashed the custom bios you guys made and it worked fine

then i tried to flash the BIOS that i had backed up (from the rom with a rom dumper) to restore it to default and i forgot to unblock the file and i used a windows based flasher (forgot what i used)
but when i flashed it i made SURE that the BOOT Block was NOT flashed im not sure about the last block if i flashed it or not

now which bios should i flash?

the stock ones that messed it up
or the custom ones that worked?

[1234s282]

Thread Closed

Ive replied to the other thread

Admin

[jonnay]

I think I may have failed at flashing the bios on my Gateway DX4831, I did back up the original rom with the universal backup.exe file, but when I try to restore that original rom it still does not want to boot back up
I have read the ami recovery thread and went in search of the factory rom from gateway's website but no luck, also it doesnt have a floppy drive either so I'm not sure what I need to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated !

[1234s282]

hmm not sure , will hunt around for you

Admin

[1234s282]

My search resulted in 2 backups , ive uploaded them for you below

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gateway%2...up%201.rom

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gateway%2...up%202.rom

Best of luck!

Admin

[jonnay]

My search resulted in 2 backups , ive uploaded them for you below

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gateway%2...up%201.rom

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gateway%2...up%202.rom

Best of luck!

Admin

Wow that was really fast I am going to try those roms tomorrow afternoon, I will check back in and let you know what happens! also thank you very much