How can one flash the A8N32-SLI BIOS chip ?

[Marcel Overweel]

You have been reported.

 

[Ben Doedens]

Has it ever occured to you that this is a public newgroup which
millions of people could read ?

Has it ever occured to you that by helping me you could help millions
of others ?

Probleem is dat jij niet te helpen bent terwijl je millions of others door
je hersenloze gedachtenspinsels afschrikt.

 

[Ben Doedens]

Please get off usenet dude.

I seek serious answers to my questions.

Try some serious questions first, then you get serious answers
automatically.

 

[Benjamin Gawert]

* Skybuck:

The chipset on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard was designed by
NVIDIA.

Therefore the NVIDIA newsgroup is the correct place for these
messages.

You horse-fucking retard are probably not aware that the group
"alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia" is for gfx cards only (hence the
"videocards" in the name). Of course not since you're even too stupid to
even flash a BIOS. Maybe you should bring your computer to someone who
does have a clue? Or better get Mommy to buy you some other toy that is
more appropriate to your very low intellectual level.

You probably want that people think that all Dutch people are assholes
like you, right? Or is it common for Dutch people not to respect topics
and off-topics in UseNet? Do you also behave like a stupid retard in
real life? You probably do.

Now the real search for some good information can be begin by
searching for NFORCE 4 chipset documents

Yeah, right, as if the chipset would have anything to do with BIOS
flashes. Again you show everyone what a clueless retard you are. Why
don't you do us and your little country a favour and just commit suicide?

Benjamin

 

[Rev. G.G. Willikers]

* Skybuck:


You horse-fucking retard are probably not aware that the group
"alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia" is for gfx cards only (hence the
"videocards" in the name). Of course not since you're even too stupid to
even flash a BIOS. Maybe you should bring your computer to someone who
does have a clue? Or better get Mommy to buy you some other toy that is
more appropriate to your very low intellectual level.

You probably want that people think that all Dutch people are assholes
like you, right? Or is it common for Dutch people not to respect topics
and off-topics in UseNet? Do you also behave like a stupid retard in
real life? You probably do.


Yeah, right, as if the chipset would have anything to do with BIOS
flashes. Again you show everyone what a clueless retard you are. Why
don't you do us and your little country a favour and just commit suicide?

I think that is legal there as well.

 

[mpm]

Has it ever occured to you that by helping me you could help millions
of others ? -- Skybuck.

You give youreself WAY too much credit...
There might be one or two people out there as retarded as you, but not
a million.

And as I already said, the kind of help you need requires medication.

 

[Skybuck]

The questions are serious, the problem is with the answer.

Nobody knows the answer.

The answer can't be found on asus website, nvidia website or google.

The information about the NFORCE chipset is quite lacking.

I also own an apollo pro chipset from via company.

The via company now seems to have specialized in mini motherboard.

They had some great documents online once !

With asus and nvidia that does not seem to be the case.

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[default]

Has it ever occured to you that this is a public newgroup which
millions of people could read ?

Has it ever occured to you that by helping me you could help millions
of others ?

Bye,
Skybuck.

And by castigating and ridiculing you we might get folks like you to
avoid posting entirely. Now that really might help millions of
people.

To be "helped" you have to be receptive to help - you aren't.

There are teachers and students in any exchange of ideas - and the
roles change constantly during the exchange - - the thing to remember
is that teaching is the passive role and learning is the active role.

S.E.D. is not about computers, it isn't about repairs, it certainly is
not the place for your attempts to "easter egg" a problem

First learn what Usenet is and how to use it correctly.

"How can one flash the A8N32-SLI BIOS chip ?" Get on the asus
website or bios website and read about it.

 

[Joel Kolstad]

The information about the NFORCE chipset is quite lacking.

I suspect there's plenty of well-detailed dta sheets about them in existence,
but obtaining them requires signing an NDA...

Of course, all the "basic" functionality is supposed to be the same as as
generic PC chipset...

 

[Skybuck]

Wimsbios website says to disable shadow rom before flashing...

Why ?

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Frank McCoy]

Wimsbios website says to disable shadow rom before flashing...

Why ?

Probably because it's:
A. Safer.
B. A good reason, just because they say so.
C. A return might be made to nonexistent memory after flashing.

I like 'B', the best myself.
WAEFRTFM.

 

[Skybuck]

Probably because it's:
A. Safer.
B. A good reason, just because they say so.
C. A return might be made to nonexistent memory after flashing.

I like 'B', the best myself.
WAEFRTFM.

C is a strange answer here is way I think it is a strange answer:

The bios code is loaded into RAM and is still being executed.

Even after flashing the bios, the old bios code is still in RAM and
being executed.

So there should be no danger what so ever ?

Also the correct procedure would be to:

Reboot after a flash, which would surely load the new bios code ?

What do you mean with non existing memory ?

Even if the flash is a downgrade and less memory is detected that
won't occur until the reboot...

Is the BIOS always "shadowed" into the same RAM location or could it
be different location ?

Even if it is a different location, no problem, since the computer is
rebooting anyway...

So how can a return possibly be made to non existing memory ???

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Frank McCoy]

C is a strange answer here is way I think it is a strange answer:

The bios code is loaded into RAM and is still being executed.

Even after flashing the bios, the old bios code is still in RAM and
being executed.

So there should be no danger what so ever ?

Also the correct procedure would be to:

Reboot after a flash, which would surely load the new bios code ?

What do you mean with non existing memory ?

Even if the flash is a downgrade and less memory is detected that
won't occur until the reboot...

Is the BIOS always "shadowed" into the same RAM location or could it
be different location ?

Even if it is a different location, no problem, since the computer is
rebooting anyway...

So how can a return possibly be made to non existing memory ???

Sorry.
Should have been more explicit.
I mean RAM that was used to shadow the ROM; but now no longer contains
the contents of that ROM after the flashing process, but is still mapped
into the same space. Or, worse yet, contains the data from the original
ROM, which has since been *replaced* by the flashing process; but the
code in RAM no longer reflects the contents of said ROM.

Is that a bit clearer?

 

[JackShephard]

You give youreself WAY too much credit...
There might be one or two people out there as retarded as you, but not
a million.

And as I already said, the kind of help you need requires medication.

Or a very fast moving piece of lead.

 

[Skybuck]

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Skybuck <[email protected]>
wrote:

















Sorry.
Should have been more explicit.
I mean RAM that was used to shadow the ROM; but now no longer contains
the contents of that ROM after the flashing process, but is still mapped
into the same space. Or, worse yet, contains the data from the original
ROM, which has since been *replaced* by the flashing process; but the
code in RAM no longer reflects the contents of said ROM.

Is that a bit clearer?

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No,

Here is what I would find logical what happens:

1. At boot time the bios code gets loaded into RAM.

2. The bios eeprom is not used anymore afterwards.

3. The flash happens and overwrites the eeprom.

The new bios code in the eeprom gets active when a reboot is done.

So what's the problem ?

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Peter van der Goes]

* Skybuck:



You probably want that people think that all Dutch people are assholes
like you, right? Or is it common for Dutch people not to respect topics
and off-topics in UseNet? Do you also behave like a stupid retard in real
life? You probably do.


Benjamin

OMG! Please tell me it's not Dutch! The shame, the shame...

 

[Rebecca]

No,

Here is what I would find logical what happens:

1. At boot time the bios code gets loaded into RAM.

2. The bios eeprom is not used anymore afterwards.

3. The flash happens and overwrites the eeprom.

The new bios code in the eeprom gets active when a reboot is done.

So what's the problem ?

The problem would be your not Killfiling the idiot Frank. His 'advise' is
usually wrong.

 

[Phil Weldon]

'Peter van der Goes' wrote:
| OMG! Please tell me it's not Dutch! The shame, the shame...
_____

It never occured to me that the '.nl' had anything to do with the Skybuck
phenomona. The language in the posts seems to be much better coloquial
English than most posters of the same apparent age use. If Skybuck's
original language is other than English I'd guess two things are true; The
Netherlands have an extrodinary school system and Skybuck is a precocious
nine year old. But I tend toward believing him a precocious nine year old
whose original language is English. What can we do to socialize him? He's
got energy, intelligence, and a computer system to play with, but a mind is
a terrible thing to waste.

Phil Weldon

|
| | >* Skybuck:
| >
| >> The chipset on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard was designed by
| >> NVIDIA.
| >>
| >> Therefore the NVIDIA newsgroup is the correct place for these
| >> messages.
| >
| >
| > You probably want that people think that all Dutch people are assholes
| > like you, right? Or is it common for Dutch people not to respect topics
| > and off-topics in UseNet? Do you also behave like a stupid retard in
real
| > life? You probably do.
| >
| >
| > Benjamin
|
| OMG! Please tell me it's not Dutch! The shame, the shame...
|
|

 

[krw]

The problem would be your not Killfiling the idiot Frank. His 'advise' is
usually wrong.

Here, let me help you with your grammar and punctuation...

"The problem would be that you're not killfiling the idiot,
Frank."Why all the space, dummy?

 

[Ed Medlin]

'Peter van der Goes' wrote:
| OMG! Please tell me it's not Dutch! The shame, the shame...
_____

It never occured to me that the '.nl' had anything to do with the Skybuck
phenomona. The language in the posts seems to be much better coloquial
English than most posters of the same apparent age use. If Skybuck's
original language is other than English I'd guess two things are true;
The
Netherlands have an extrodinary school system and Skybuck is a precocious
nine year old. But I tend toward believing him a precocious nine year old
whose original language is English. What can we do to socialize him?
He's
got energy, intelligence, and a computer system to play with, but a mind
is
a terrible thing to waste.

Phil Weldon

I tend to agree. The problem is that he has been around here for years. I
make him at about 16yrs old.......

Ed