Shuttle SZ68R5 bad BIOS Flash?

[Ferretti]

Hi all,

I was having an intermittent problem with my Shuttle SZ68R5 rebooting randomly, with kernel-power errors in the windows event logger.

In order to attempt to fix this I updated the Bios to SZ68R000.203 (here), note it reportedly fixes a reboot issue.

However after running the updater when I attempt to boot I get the message CMOS Checksum error and with the machine totally locked up.

I have removed the CMOS battery for 30 mins which didn't help. I also pushed the CMOS reset button on the back panel (with the battery replaced), although it was difficult to tell whether I pushed the button properly.

So is this BIOS totally ruined?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

Not looking good. Make sure you push the reset button, and try again.

It is looking like there was an error during the flash.

 

[CMadki4]

You can replace the bios chip. They discuss it some in this thread.

From that thread:

*snip...I think the lockups in bios and dos might be USB related, but await Shuttle's response.
Because i'm messing with the bioses all the time I have a spare chip so I can always recover although the 201 is the first file that sucessfully flashes to a spare chip, but at least i'm safe now. Worth getting one, mine was about £8 in the UK ...*snip

 

[Skott]

Yeah Shuttle will send a new bios chip if you contact them. Supposedly takes a while though.