GA-Q67M-D2H-B3 F4 bios HELP!

[mikonmac]

Anyone have tried F4 bios version on this board?
Upgraded from F3, changed some settings, first time it seems to boot, after reboot the card seems broken, no boot neither in bios.
How can now recover bios on this board?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I have just replied to your other post. Please do not double post as it can get confusing!

[mikonmac]

Removed battery all night long. Removed HD, DVD, Video Card. CPU fan start moving but nothing happens on screen.
Tried also:

1 - shut down the PSU from the wall
2 - hold down your case power button in
3 - turn on the power supply button
4 - At this point board starts (CPU fan start running) for 2 or 3 seconds,
5 - then CPU fan stop
6 - after 2 or 3 seconds CPU fan starts again

Shut off the power supply after step 4 or 6, tried many times with various timing but bios don't start.

[mikonmac]

Is there other method to reload bios, for example using serial port (DEBUG PORT) on board?

[haidomingo]

Hi,
I have to same problems with f5.
Nothing video after flashing f5.
Solution?

[Dark Mantis]

The BIOS flashover from the Backup BIOS to the Main BIOS should work alright if done correctly. There is another alternative but it is too dangerous for me to pass on to you as the boards are still under warranty and this would invalidate the warranty. I think that you should now try the flashover again and if no luck start the RMA procedure. You will need to contact the retailer that you puchased the boards from.

[haidomingo]

Thanks,
please explain this:

The BIOS flashover from the Backup BIOS to the Main BIOS should work alright if done correctly.

Thanks.

[Dark Mantis]

Tried also:

1 - shut down the PSU from the wall
2 - hold down your case power button in
3 - turn on the power supply button
4 - At this point board starts (CPU fan start running) for 2 or 3 seconds,
5 - then CPU fan stop
6 - after 2 or 3 seconds CPU fan starts again

Shut off the power supply after step 4 or 6, tried many times with various timing but bios don't start.

Thanks,
please explain this:

The BIOS flashover from the Backup BIOS to the Main BIOS should work alright if done correctly.

Thanks.

What I was talking about was this that mikonmac said he had tried. It is the accepted way of flashing the Main BIOS with the contents of the Backup BIOS in case of corruption.

[haidomingo]

I carefully followed your instructions to obtain:
 the fan stops, starts again but still nothing in the video

[Dark Mantis]

I am beginning to suspect that although it happened after a BIOS update that the BIOS is not what is having problems. It has done something to the motherboard/GPU that has stopped the signal being produced. If it was purely the BIOS corrupted the flashover should have worked.

Have you tried clearing the CMOS as our friend did ?

[haidomingo]

Have you tried clearing the CMOS as our friend did ?

Thank you very much for your interest and for the help.
 Excuse my bad English.
 These are the steps I did:
 I unplugged the AC, I removed the CMOS battery,
 I shorted the jumper to clear cmos, I pressed the power button with power supply not connected to power.
 After 2 hours I hooked up the CMOS battery, I connected the power and hold the power button: the fans start, keyboard light up in sequence first and then scroll lock and num lock, but no signal appears on the video.
 In some attempts before the fans start then stop and then move on but without any result.
 I tried creating a boot disk with USB firmware afudos f4 and autoexec.bat to no avail.
 I also tried with bootable CD, same result.
 Domanda1: the mainboard q67M-D2H-b3 has DualBIOS?
 Black screen.
 Thanks

[Dark Mantis]

To be honest I am running out of ideas here as it is very limiting when there is no display at all.

You have cleared your CMOS ok.

Try just moving the GPU into the other slot. Now I know it won't work properly but I am just interested in any response at all.

I take it that all the power cables are still in the right places, as in the 24 pin and 4 pin in the motherboard and the whatever is needed in your graphics card ? I am assuming you are running a graphics card ? If not try borrowing one just for testing purposes.

In fact what graphics port are you using ?

[Ziggy114]

Sorry to resurrect such an old post, but it seems someone else is finally having this exact problem - namely me.

I went to flash the BIOS today to update it from F3 to F7, hoping it would solve a bug where after shutting down and powering off, the system would magically restart without my asking it to. I thought maybe I had the 'state after loss of power' set to start it up but I definitely didn't, so I figured it was probably some sort of bug.

Anyway, after attempting to flash the BIOS through the EFI GUI Flash program accessed from within the BIOS, the newer version extracted to a FAT32 USB drive, my system now refuses to do... well, anything really. No video output, no system speaker beeps, no POST, nothing. Everything ramps up as if it's starting, but it looks like the BIOS is probably hooped. I'm using the integrated video and have tried both the VGA and DVI ports to see if I could get something, no luck.

I've tried the instructions earlier in this thread to clear the CMOS, hasn't made any difference. I'll try leaving it unplugged and without its battery overnight, but I'm not very optimistic. Additionally, from what I can tell this motherboard does NOT appear to be Dual-BIOS, so reverting to a 'backup' BIOS may not be possible. You'd think for how simple and cheap it must be these days they would at least include an untouchable, factory backup BIOS that would always allow you to revert to something that works instead of bricking your entire system... but maybe I'm just dreaming.

I guess what I'm wondering is whether there are any tricks out there I haven't tried yet that might work? If not, is there any hope? Or is this board now too old for Gigabyte to give two hoots about whether it gets fixed or not?