Aladdin Advance won't flash!

[seaneyb2003]

yeah i know the exact problem you have held the power button not long enough. Hold the power button for 2 seconds and the bios becomes writeable

[ihaveanosebleed]

Is it a 'Plus' chip with the BIOS chip in a socket? With a Socket chip you could swap an updated BIOS from another Aladdin.

I'vew installed Aladdin AP's exclusivley, I found they were half the price of anything else and worked great. Flashed with M7, you don't need the L2 wire which means you don't need to remove the Mobo. If you want it automatically on all the time, from what I understand you don't even need the D0 wire, just ground the D0 pad.

All my chips stay amber when activated in protected or non-protected mode. When you say your chip goes back to geen when you hold it, makes me wonder if it's not functioning properly or a different version than the ones I have.

[sevi]

Thanks for the replies guys. I tried what you said seaney ie. hold power button down for two seconds, but the machine wouldn't even boot up with the chip enabled this time. It went straight to the ms dash. So i pulled it apart, redid my solder joints, again , then rebooted, flashed the new bios and everything seems to be ok. In the process of testing it now. Hope all will be good this time.
The type of Aladdin chip i am using is the Aladdin advance 64, ihaveanosebleed. You can find info on it at http://www.modchips.com.au/index.php?cPath=23_38
Don't know if it is the same one you are talking about. Don't think so though.
Cheers guys.

[seaneyb2003]

oh well its working now tho.