Chapter 4: Useful Help; Award Bios Beep Code; Extra Information; Bios Update - Biostar K8M800-M7A Manual

CHAPTER 4: USEFUL HELP

4.1 A BIOS B
WARD
Beep Sound
One long beep followed by two short
beeps
High-low siren sound
One Short beep when system boot-up No error found during POST
Long beeps every other second
4.2 E I
XTRA NFORMATION
A. BIOS Update
After you fail to update BIOS or BIOS is invaded by virus, the
Boot-Block function will help to restore BIOS. If the following message
is shown after boot-up the system, it means the BIOS contents are
corrupted.
In this Case, please follow the procedure below to restore the BIOS:
1. Make a bootable floppy disk.
2. Download the Flash Utility "AWDFLASH.exe" from the Biostar
website:
3. Confirm motherboard model and download the respectively BIOS
from Biostar website.
4. Copy "AWDFLASH.exe" and respectively BIOS into floppy disk.
5. Insert the bootable disk into floppy drive and press Enter.
6. System will boot-up to DOS prompt.
7. Type "Awdflash xxxx.bf/sn/py/r" in DOS prompt.
(xxxx means BIOS name.)
8. System will update BIOS automatically and restart.
9. The BIOS has been recovered and will work properly.
K8M800-M7A
C
EEP ODE
Video card not found or v ideo card
memory bad
CPU overheated
System will shut down automatically
No DRAM detected or install
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