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| Thread ID: 59900 | 2005-07-16 05:53:00 | Am I screwed? | pine-o-cleen (2955) | Press F1 |
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| 372640 | 2005-07-16 05:53:00 | I have been having some problems with my PC doing seemingly random restarts. I was chatting to a friend about it and he said maybe your BIOS needs updating. I downloaded a bios update from www.giga-byte.com and using @BIOS updated it. When updating a message came up saying something to the effect of the BIOS manufacturer is different, do you want to proceed. I clicked yes. The update finished and asked me to reboot. I clicked 'Yes', the computer shut down, but now it wont boot! Am I screwed? Anything I can try? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 372641 | 2005-07-16 06:01:00 | Hmm are you sure u flashed using the right BIOS for your mobo?? Try taking the CMOS battery out for 30 secs. See what happens. What model is the mobo? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 372642 | 2005-07-16 06:02:00 | cheak on the site (find the proper motherboard this time) for recovery procedure (blind reflash). check manual first.....gigabyte usually have dual bios so you should be able to switch bios and be up and running again. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 372643 | 2005-07-16 06:23:00 | Hmm are you sure u flashed using the right BIOS for your mobo?? Try taking the CMOS battery out for 30 secs. See what happens. What model is the mobo? I checked the model # against my motherboard manual and used cpu id to confirm it. Model # is 7VM400AM-RZ. Tried taking out the batt for 30 secs. No change :( |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 372644 | 2005-07-16 06:23:00 | cheak on the site (find the proper motherboard this time) for recovery procedure (blind reflash) . check manual first . . . . . gigabyte usually have dual bios so you should be able to switch bios and be up and running again . Checking site now, don't think it's a dual BIOS . |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 372645 | 2005-07-16 06:40:00 | Can't seem to find recovery procedure at www.giga-byte.com. Done a fair amount of googling and it seems there 'used to be' a document on gigabytes site, but no more *sigh* | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 372646 | 2005-07-16 06:45:00 | And u went here? . giga-byte . com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_7VM400AM-RZ . htm" target="_blank">www . giga-byte . com Hmm you should have flashed it in DOS / from a floppy . Updating a BIOS from within windows, is NOT a good idea . As u found out, it can screw a system . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 372647 | 2005-07-16 06:50:00 | So my options = ? | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 372648 | 2005-07-16 07:00:00 | Well unless it has something like EZ flash which some mobos have, nothing. I would check the back of the manual, and see what it says about BIOS updates killing a system. Or send an email to Giga-byte.. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 372649 | 2005-07-16 07:07:00 | Hi I did the same thing some months ago with my albatron, my friendly computer guy here in Nelson took the BIOS chip out sent it to the NZ agents and they reflashed it, came back perfect, you may have to do that . PS . How come the F1 clock is soooo fast |
Arnie (6624) | ||
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