Need some help with windows 98 hardware setup hanging at 14 minutes.

[jaclaz]

56 minutes ago, Nic9x said:

The positive thing are on this case were talking about a chip socket, so i can pull it out and flash the chip directly.

Yep, but now you really cannot boot (to BIOS) anymore? 

Also some motherbaords/BIOSes have the one (or the other) BIOS recovery modes (it depends, but before actually going to the chip programmer, simpler paths should be preferred), if you detail EXACT motherboard/BIOS we can check if yours has one of such provisions/procedures.

jaclaz

[Nic9x]

Where talking about this particular kind of motherboard.
https://pcper.com/2013/07/hardware-flashback-asus-p2b/

[jaclaz]

29 minutes ago, Nic9x said:

Where talking about this particular kind of motherboard.
https://pcper.com/2013/07/hardware-flashback-asus-p2b/

Seemingly those with 2 Mbit chips do have a bootblock (unless you accidentally overwrote it) and they can be used also as "programmers" using hot-swap (but you need another similar one).

You will need a working floppy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050409123244/http://www.bev.me.uk/ruslan/Updated_BIOS_recovery_tips.htm

Is it an AWARD or a AMI BIOS?

https://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-315360.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20041207133136/http://www.amptron.com/documents/Recover.pdf

jaclaz

[Nic9x]

Mine was flashed recently with the award beta bios and i got a floppy emulator which we can use for this, is it a good sign if the hard drive lamp 'blinks' when doing a reset?

it does turn on but stays blank.

[Nic9x]

Small update! i did have a second award bios chip i did a swap around with and waited a few hours, then placing the flashed bios chip back in, that seems to have 'fixed' the issue itself.