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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: GM0UDL on November 22, 2011, 05:34:46 pm

Title: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: GM0UDL on November 22, 2011, 05:34:46 pm

Hello all,

I thought it would be smart and update my bios via floppy disc using F11 or F12 can't remember which.
So now it won't boot up and I can't get any bios on the screen.
I have removed the battery and shorted out the bios clear jumer to no avail.
Is there a way to upload the bios back to the motherboard???

Thanks

Andrew

Title: Re: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: absic on November 22, 2011, 05:40:15 pm

Hi there,

you can try and kick in the back up BIOS. If you check through this thread: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,4806.msg37873.html#msg37873 it explains what you need to do.

Title: Re: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: GM0UDL on November 22, 2011, 06:02:56 pm

Karma

Thanks for the quick reply.
I have given it a couple of goes with no joy hope I have not corrupted the other bios????


Andrew

Title: Re: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 23, 2011, 08:24:20 pm

In case this is different try this instead:

You can kick in the backup BIOS by shutting down the PSU from the wall, then hold down your case power button in and then turn on the power supply button, a few seconds later the board will start, shut off the power supply then.   Then you can turn on the power supply again and power up the board normally and DualBIOS will kick in.

It certainly should work but the timing can be tricky.

Title: Re: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: GM0UDL on November 23, 2011, 09:22:27 pm

Dark Mantis,

Thanks for the reply.

What I had to do was remove my dual output graphics card and put in a simple PCI graphics board.
I had this feeling that it was sort of running but could see no bios, so hence removing some boards and fitting the simple board.
It worked got the bios page rolled back the defaults all good apart from I can't seem to be able to get my mirror raid drives back up and running on single drive at the moment, I remember I installed them it formatted them so backing all up at the moment before trying  it, updating the OS to Win7 anyway.
Strange fault as when I built the pc I had the dual graphics card in and it fired up ok from new?

Thanks

Andrew

Title: Re: GA-EP45-UD3R bios update gone wrong
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2011, 11:06:06 am

Glad to hear that you got it working again now anyway although I can't say why the dual cards would make a difference, but we are talking computers here!

Good call to make sure that everything is backed up before trying anything else. You should be able to just get it to repair from the BIOS side of things but anything can go wrong.