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re: Question: Re: ''Error, can't write ESCD''
Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 9:27 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bruce Pellowe
(6 messages posted)
Yes! that was my final solution - I bought a new motherboard and upgraded the processor
at the same time. An expensive solution, but worth-while.
Thanks for your input!
Bruce
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 4:37 am, Ivan Shipkov wrote:
>I have the same problem. Before 6 months this problem has appeared to me. I have
>Asus P2B motherboard from year 1998. I have updated my BIOS four times. This doesn't
>helps in my case. One friend said to me that i can trie to remove CMOS settings
by
>removing motherboard battery. This was not in my help too. ESCD settings are kept
>in flash not in CMOS (i think so). Then i find on ASUS site that this problem can
>occur from bad flash chip or incorrect settings in BIOS. They recommend to reset
>BIOS settings to setup defaults first. I have tried this. This doesn't work too.
>I have tried BIOS flash update, and it was working but checksums were incorrect.
>And at the end i understand that jush my BIOS flash chip is probably partially broken
>in ESCD part of the chip. I think that this is so because ESCD is much more frequently
>updated than the whole flash image, and flash memories doesn't have unlimited write
>cycles. After 1000 writes they became unuseful. For me it is unusedul to change
BIOS
>flash chip. For me it is too expensive to fix old motherboard with no future. I
recommend
>motherboard upgrade if your motherboard is old.
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