Just flashed MX2 BIOS then POOF! HELP!

[Hurricane]

I have (had?) a ABIT MX2. I flashed the BIOS to the latest MX2_1024.exe
This is what I got on the screen afterwards:
FLASH UPDATE SUCCESSFUL
COMPARING ENTIRE ROM
ERROR: NO ROM SIGNATURE CAN BE FOUND (ROM PROBABLY BLANK OR NON-FUNCTIONAL)
ERROR:COULD NOT GET ROM SIZE
ERROR: COMPARING EEPROM WITH FILE
a:\
So once it got to the A prompt I figured it was done the flash. I rebooted and the monitor shut off and stayed off. I shut off the computer completely to include the power. Booted up and nothing. Changed Vid cards and I could see the BIOS ID of the old Diamond I'm using now. Changed back to the MX. Nothing. But I can boot up with the floppy that I used to flash the MX BIOS with because it has the sys files on it. I just can't see what's going on. I tried reflashing it but its hard when you can't see what's there. I typed:
NVFLASH MX2_0124.EXE (as I did to flash originally)
I can see that it's reading the floppy. I don't remember what it asked to do next. I do remember that at some point I had to type in YES in caps to proceed with the flash upgrade.
Can anyone help? Is this redeemable? I think I can still flash it. I just can't see what's on the monitor. I can type in NVFLASH MX2_0124 and the program will read the floppy but, I don't remember what the next steps are because I can't see 'em to answer them!!! Can anyone tell me what the steps are to flash? I need someone to be my eyes.

[bestax1]

i dont know if this will help you much but when i was toying with the idea of reflashing my geforce2 card, i looked into the failure recovery procedures.

for my geforce2 card, in event of a bios flash failure, put a pci graphics card in so you have a display and reflash the geforce2 bios (hoping it works this time)

hope this points you in the right direction

[Xayd]

Yeap, you can have two vid cards in the same machine, you need to use a PCI card to boot with (and if there's an option in your BIOS to set which one is the primary, set it to PCI), and boot with both of them in there.

It's either that, or mark down the keystrokes that are required in the process, and use the force, young jedi .

Xayd

[Hurricane]

WOW, I've been fart'in around with this thing on and off for hours, now. This has been an experience if nothing else and it seems as if it is just that: nothing else. I've been trying that alternative with the PCI vid card. It's too bad DDOS isn't like word where it'll correct you if your a bit off on your phrases, spelling and all the other what-nots. Using the two vid card theory; I've been typing in variations of this: NVFLASH -MX_0018C.EXE I've exchanged EXE for ROM but the most consistant thing I get on the screen is " Please use - or / to start command line parameters." This has me stumped. I thought I tried all that. I also get this when I try. This is the read me that comes with the BIOS:

Commands:
Example of use: NVFLASH -s4 -fBIOS.ROM -l
-f Flash the ROM using , then do compare and ~CRC32.
-b Read ROM and save to .
-k Read ROM and compare with .
-x Xfer TV data from file to AT29LV512; SST29LE/VE512 SST39VF512.
-v Display file version and ~CRC32 (if no filename, acts on ROM).
-t Display 256 bytes of ROM, at offset C000h
-e Erase the ROM.
-d Display 256 bytes of ROM, at offset 0.
-c Check for supported EEPROM.
-l Don't light keyboard LEDs.
-p Don't pause if ROMfile & chip PCI VenID, DevID mismatch.
-h Reboot the PC after other tasks completed.
-w Write protect ROM (only works on some ROMs).
-r Remove ROM Write protect. (only works on some ROMs).
-a List all supported device indexes.
-m Enable Macintosh (FCode) compatible mode.
-g Force a specific device index.
-i Force specific device instance (use with -g).
-? Display Help
-s# Silence level:
default All progress messages, all beeps.
#=1 No progress messages, no beeps.
#=2 No progress messages, no progress beeps.
#=3 No progress messages.
#=4 No progress beeps.
#=5 No beeps.


Does this make any sense to anyone. I don't know of any other way to try it. What am I doing wrong? Anyone??? Thankyou all, I really appreciate it. I'm tired and go'in to bed before my family dis-owns me.

[glc]

Aha - that exe file is a self extractor. Copy it onto a floppy and execute it. It should expand to give you the rom file (NOTE the filename), the flash tool (nvflash.exe?), and the readme.

In this case, the right syntax for flashing the bios would be NVFLASH FILENAME.ROM

You don't need any command line options, so do not type the - sign.

[Hurricane]

OK. I just wanna say: THANKS! Using the pci vid card as the primary display device and leaving the agp in,(cool trick) I was able to use this:
A:/>nvflash -s4 -fmx_0018c.rom ...AND IT WORKED! HA! The progie said it found two devices to flash the one in the PCI slot or the one in the AGP choose 1 for AGP and 0 for PCI.

Yeah glc, that is exactly what I thought it should be. I think that is what I used to flash it the first time and had no problems ...and that is what I did, I copied it onto a floppy and executed it. I've done this about 50 times before and never had such a challenging time. But all is OK, now. Thanx all again! PTL!