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GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER

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GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« on: October 21, 2010, 03:23:03 pm »

Hi,,

I got a problem with an old motherboard GA-8TX , it has dual BIOS (main and backup) this mb was un used for long time.
I installed it replacing damaged one.
When I switched on the power, BIOS utility program popped up, trying to recover the main bios from the backup one, but after less than a second, gives a massage
ERROR: FAIL TO WRITE THE BOIS.
After several tries, I decided to reset the bios through the utility program to re write it after word. The result was worse.
I discovered later the voltage of the bios battery was too low, replaced by new one but, when the pc boots, it checks for the floppy for the bios file.
I created startup floppy disk and downloaded the proper bios file (8TX.F8) from the internet
Extracted it and loaded into the floppy disk.
When pc boots, this time gives a message after pressing any key on keyboard
AUTO RECOVER FUNCTIONS:
PLEASE INSERT BIOS FILE
when i do so, a message appears
READIING BIOS FILE
BIOS FILE NOT FOUND and keeps looping giving same messages.

I hope a solution would be posted for this matter.

Regards
HaiFai

Dark Mantis

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Re: GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2010, 03:32:39 pm »
Hi
It sounds to me as if the BIOS file you have downloaded isn't matching the checksum of the installed BIOS. That maybe because it has become corrupted or because you have downloaded the wrong file for your motherboard revision.
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Re: GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2010, 04:34:04 pm »
I looks like there are three GA-8TX boards. GA-8TX, GA-8TX-C and GA-8TX-C1 So as Dark Mantis said make sure your using the correct bios. The bios file may need to be renamed to allow Auto recovery to work. I had a peek at the manual for a GA-8TX and find no info on this. From searching the net it looks like AMI bios files must be named AMIBOOT.ROM and Award bios file names must end in .BIN to allow Auto recovery to see the file.

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Re: GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2010, 05:28:47 pm »
Thanks for your quick reply,,
Yes,it could be not matching or different one. but that's the only available in GIGABYTE web site for the same motherboard i have.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1358&dl=1#bios

Is there a way to go for upgrading the bios by flashing it?
Note , while it's looping , no way to stop it. only by powering off.

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Re: GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2010, 05:33:53 pm »
Did you receive my PM? Have you tried it?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
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Re: GIGABYTE GA-8TX DUAL BIOS FAILS TO RECOVER
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2010, 02:21:15 am »
Thanks again for all,,
Dark Mantis,,
Yes,more details at my reply.

Wonderwrench
By renaming the bios file to AMIBOOT.ROM , it resulted the following messages:

Please insert BIOS file.
when the disk is inserted,then
 FLASH PART ERASING...
 FLASH PART PROGRAMMING...
 FLASH PROGRAM DONE...
 BIOS RECOVERY SUCCESSFUL,POWER OFF THEN RESTART THE SYSTEM.

when i powered ON, it behaved as before. like nothing was changed

Best Regards...