Help! BIOS flash failed

[absic]

Yes,

just put the HDD back into your K8N and try and boot, if you are lucky the BIOS will read the files and restore itself. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Good Luck!

[Johnny Boy]

... That didn't work 

Why the second BIOS don't take the relay automatically

That irritates me because it is not my fault, it's because of the utility @BIOS of gigabyte and I am not only one in this case.

[Dark Mantis]

For the second BIOS chip to take over you would have had to have done it from the BIOS utility and then left it for 20 seconds to do the automatic reboot from the backup BIOS.

[Johnny Boy]

With Q-Flash utility?

And with is the safeguard of my old BIOS, nothing possible?

(I saved it in .dat/.bin/.rom)

[Dark Mantis]

I really don't think so because you need a working computer to read them. The BIOS acts as a translator between the hardware and the software and without it they just don't communicate. It basically what we used to call machine code.

[Johnny Boy]

Yes, i know but where there's life, there's hope... Now it's dead, so no hope :|

I found the self motherboard on ebay, but it's an error which costs me money stupidly. -_-

[Dark Mantis]

The only good thing about it is we tend to remember the lessons that cost us.

[Johnny Boy]

And don't Flash a BIOS since Windows >_<

[Johnny Boy]

This solution is possible?

AWARD-BIOS:
We need our Bootdiskette and do only 1 Change on it:
Create (on a 2nd PC using a Texteditor) a File called: "AUTOEXEC.BAT", with only one Line:

"awdflash.exe updatefilename /py /sn" (without quotes!)

Now, boot from Diskette and listen to the Beeps

[Dark Mantis]

That is pretty much what you have just tried  with your hard disk. The trouble being that the disk isn't being read properly. If you have an a:\ drive then you can try it but I wouldn't hold out much hope.

[Johnny Boy]

I don't have an a:\ btw...

Thx a lot to you and absic115 

[absic]

Once the BIOS gets scrambled it is almost impossible to recover it.

I would suggest that you contact gigabyte Tech Support and ask them if they can help, especially as the problem has been created by the @BIOS utility.

Another thing you could try would be the French Gigabyte forum: http://forum.gigabyte.fr/ where you might be able to find some more local help.

[swanseajack]

Looking at the photo's, the bios flash is fine, all thats happened is that it's reverted to default values and changed your boot order.  Thats why you get the flashing cursor as it can't find an OS.

Just go into bios and set all the settings back to what you had before.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes swansejack that would appear to be the case but he has no way of getting into the BIOS. As soon as he presses Delete to enter all he gets is the flashing cursor. It just wont respond to the normal commands. Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting.

[absic]

Curses, you just beat me to that DM. Go back and watch the Intel section!