Bricked P35-DS3L

MrScott

MrScott

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Hi all,

Downloaded the latest F8 BIOS for my board yesterday and flashed it under freeDOS using flashspi.exe or whatever exe came in the archive with the BIOS. It said it completed successfully but now the board won't POST :confused:. Smart fan control kicks in, and it gives normal error beeps if I take out RAM etc, but no monitor output or beeps at all. So:

- Does anyone know of any tricks with this board to re-flash the BIOS blind? It's supposed to have fancy BIOS recovery features but the manual doesn't document them at all. I'm going to borrow a PCI gfx card off a friend later and see if it can initialise that too.

- Can I RMA the board? Never had to RMA *anything* before, if I can, how much will it cost me and how long will it take? (the board is from OcUK).

If it's not fixable I'll be ordering replacement later on today. Maybe I should have used QFlash in the first place...

Thanks,
Scott.
 
Certainly should have flashed using Q-Flash within the BIOS.

Have you tried removing the battery for 30 mins?
 
The Bios recovery usually works on Gigabyte boards (unlike Asus), put the original driver cd in your DVD/CD drive, disconect the floppy and any other DVD or CD drive you may have and start up, with a bit of luck unless the boot block is corrupt, it will flash itself from the bios file on the driver cd.
 
Cob said:
Have you tried removing the battery for 30 mins?
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Yep, no difference.

G_Wizz said:
The Bios recovery usually works on Gigabyte boards (unlike Asus), put the original driver cd in your DVD/CD drive, disconect the floppy and any other DVD or CD drive you may have and start up, with a bit of luck unless the boot block is corrupt, it will flash itself from the bios file on the driver cd.
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Just tried that now and nothing unfortunately, doesn't even seem to read from the CD drive. At least I know how the BIOS recovery is supposed to work now. New board is on the way :(
 
i really don't understand motherboard makers

gb have dual-bios (or so they say)

should have 2x bios chips and a jumper so you can choose which one is in use, simple & perfect.
 
I have that board. When i have updated the BIOS i sometimes have to clear the CMOS with the jumper to get it to POST although, removing the battery as you have already tried, should have the same affect. Got to be worth a try though :(
 
Yup tried clearing the CMOS with a jumper too. Nothing I tried helped so I got a replacement board, first thing I did was flash it to F8 using the on-board Q-Flash and all is well (apart from having spent £63 just to flash my BIOS :p). On my last Gigabyte board there were actually 2 BIOS chips and the BIOS recovery worked fine...on this board it's a little surface mount chip soldered to the board, otherwise I would have hotflashed it.
 
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