Anyone experienced NF2 BIOS corruption?

RobV wrote:
> Fishface wrote:
>> My Abit NF7-S v.2 stopped posting. No beeps. Lights are on,
>> but nobody's home. I did notice a message at previous boot
>> and saw the letters CMOS, but it flashed by before I could read
>> it. Any chance of this being the fabled NF2 BIOS corruption issue?
>> Of course I tried resetting the BIOS via the jumber, but to no avail.
>
> Something I have to look forward to? I'm not familiar with that problem,
> although I probably heard of it when I built the system, as I installed a
> BIOS Savior for some reason. No problems with my NF7-S ver. 2
> since it was built a number of years ago (5, 6). It's still working as my
> wife's computer and no problems with anything. It is getting around
> that time when the battery starts to die, as they're 5 year +- (mostly plus
> a few years) batteries.

I did try a new battery but that didn't help, either.

> Maybe BIOS Savior will actually get some use (if I can find the manual).
>
> Is it possible your PSU decided to quit?

Nope. I seem to have a house full of spare parts! I tested it stripped and
on the box. Different RAM, different video card. I don't have a spare
Socket A CPU though. No video card and no RAM still produced no beeps.
Yes, speaker connected!

Abit's Web Store sells the BIOS chip for $6 plus whatever shipping is.
Might be worth the gamble. If it works, I can probably hot flash the old
one and have a spare. There was some mention of Corsair TwinX memory
(which is what I have) in relation to this problem. I hadn't heard of the
NF2 bios corruption, either, until I went searching after this happened.
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Fishface wrote:
> RobV wrote:
>> Fishface wrote:
>>> My Abit NF7-S v.2 stopped posting. No beeps. Lights are on,
>>> but nobody's home. I did notice a message at previous boot
>>> and saw the letters CMOS, but it flashed by before I could read
>>> it. Any chance of this being the fabled NF2 BIOS corruption issue?
>>> Of course I tried resetting the BIOS via the jumber, but to no
>>> avail.
>>
>> Something I have to look forward to? I'm not familiar with that
>> problem, although I probably heard of it when I built the system, as
>> I installed a BIOS Savior for some reason. No problems with my
>> NF7-S ver. 2 since it was built a number of years ago (5, 6). It's
>> still working
>> as my wife's computer and no problems with anything. It is getting
>> around that time when the battery starts to die, as they're 5 year +-
>> (mostly plus a few years) batteries.
>
> I did try a new battery but that didn't help, either.
>
>> Maybe BIOS Savior will actually get some use (if I can find the
>> manual). Is it possible your PSU decided to quit?
>
> Nope. I seem to have a house full of spare parts! I tested it
> stripped and on the box. Different RAM, different video card. I
> don't have a spare Socket A CPU though. No video card and no RAM
> still produced no beeps. Yes, speaker connected!
>
> Abit's Web Store sells the BIOS chip for $6 plus whatever shipping is.
> Might be worth the gamble. If it works, I can probably hot flash the
> old one and have a spare. There was some mention of Corsair TwinX
> memory (which is what I have) in relation to this problem. I hadn't
> heard of the NF2 bios corruption, either, until I went searching
> after this happened.

That would be great if you can get a new one for $6. Actually, it's
best if that is the problem, since another bad component would make
troubleshooting the problem very difficult.

I have 1 GB of OCZ memory in the Abit system, so I guess I'm safe. I
can't see how a particular brand of memory would kill the CMOS chip,
but I'm sure stranger things have happened. Good luck with it!
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