BIOS Update Failure on GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

[absic]

Using a PS2 keyboard you don't need the magic touch!!! 

And it saves a LOT of frustration!!! 

[kacee]

Came home lunchtime, unplugged and removed battery, got back this evening, followed your instruction and everything now works a treat. Thank you so much for your help, in the end my wireless keyboard worked just fine. Next job, raid my 2 sata 6gb drives, I may be back quite soon. Thanks once again,

 kacee

[Dark Mantis]

Glad it managed to get sorted for you kacee.  You've obviously got the magic touch too.

[kacee]

Well thanks everyone for all your help, sorted problem from 1st reply, After removing power lead and battery for about an hour, replaced battery and lead, powered up, went into Bios, selected Optimized Defaults. Now working as expected. Next I'm going to Raid 0 my 2 Sata 6gb drives so expect more cries of help. Thanks once again, kacee

[absic]

Next I'm going to Raid 0 my 2 Sata 6gb drives so expect more cries of help. Thanks once again, kacee

If these drives are Western Digital Caviar Black SATA3 6GB/s you won't be able to RAID them as both DM and I learnt the hard way.

[k-9]

hi, sorry to break in. but i think the op has finnished. then you said sync your bios are you saying you can replace the back up bios that originaly cam e with the motherboard? i read you can do this with other brand.also i thought the back up bios kicked in automaticaly

[absic]

When you update the BIOS on your motherboard, in reality you only flash one of the Chips. The Back-up BIOS is left alone for obvious reasons, such as a bad BIOS Flash. Over time there can be a large disparity between the versions stored on the 2 BIOS Chips. Most of the time this is not a problem and it is quite safe to leave the back-up BIOS alone but sometimes, if there are glitches with BIOS it can help to synchronise the two.

If you have updated your BIOS and you want to make your Back-up BIOS the same version, then you need to make it do this, as it is not automatic. To Flash your Back-up BIOS with the one you are currently running you need to press ALT+ F12 during Startup.

REMEMBER: this is not essential and carries the same, if not a greater risk than ordinary BIOS Flashing as you could destroy your Back-up BIOS when doing this. and IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT!!!!

[k-9]

wow, thanks. i do understand , but i can see a real need some times. say your new cpu is not supported by the old bios and you are giving away the
old chip that  used  to work with the old bios. you are free from a nagging thought that you may one day need that chip back.
thank you     k-9

[Dark Mantis]

Yes that's right and there are other circumstances but as absic suggests it's not something to be taken lightly because of the risks.