Can someone test my Bios chips?

kPATm

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Hello. So I think BOTH bios chips on my Asus Maximus IV Extreme are corrupt but Im not sure:confused:

Would it be possible for someone to test them out for me or even reprogram them?

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you can buy a usb flashing tool to reflash them ,but would be cheaper to pick up a pre flashed chip of fleabay imo
 
I know about the flashing tool. I was looking in to that. One if the chips was a new one from ebay. I was just thinking that if they where tested then I would know for sure if it was the bios chips or the mobo was faulty
 
The board ( Maximus IV Extreme)was booting fine but it only recognized 1 GPU of my SLI setup and half of my 16gb ram. I stupidly swapped the bios from my Maximus Gene-Z mobo with the 2nd bios chip in the Maximus IV Extreme. I then used the bios switch to try and boot from that but since then the board isnt booting at all even after swapping the bios back?

There is no debug code. I have also tried to reset the cmos without any luck?

There is a small light next to each bios chip (the board has 2) to show which chip the board is utilizing but they do not light since I tried to swap bios chips.
 
no other lights light up or cpu fan doesn't spin either?

you shouldn't swap bios's for other boards as they all work differently,if they were all the same asus would make just one bios version for all boards

idk what to suggest other than buy some bios chips for your board and hope it fixes things if not maybe try an rma but don't tell them what you did as asus are very strict when it comes to user damage
 
kPATm said:
The board ( Maximus IV Extreme)was booting fine but it only recognized 1 GPU of my SLI setup and half of my 16gb ram. I stupidly swapped the bios from my Maximus Gene-Z mobo with the 2nd bios chip in the Maximus IV Extreme. I then used the bios switch to try and boot from that but since then the board isnt booting at all even after swapping the bios back?

There is no debug code. I have also tried to reset the cmos without any luck?

There is a small light next to each bios chip (the board has 2) to show which chip the board is utilizing but they do not light since I tried to swap bios chips.
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daft question - but why would you have tried the Gene-Z bios on the Maximus ?
 
I'd try the BIOS flash on the chip that belongs in the board, you can do it on the Gene from a USB stick. Asus' website and forums are being a bit dodgy for me right now so I can't find a guide, but I'm sure you can find one :) never used an ASUS board so...
 
Already tried the "flashback" feature mate and from what I can tell I cant get it to work.

I just assembled the PC again and it behaves exactly the same way no matter if there is a bios chip installed or not?

Fans spins for a split second and the CPU Led flashes as does the RAM Led then it stops and does it again in an infinite loop???

No Debug Led
 
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I received another bios chip with the latest Bios on it and the PC still will not boot.

The board just does the same no matter if there is a bios chip installed or not???
 
I guess its possible you may have damaged or fried the motherboard with the non-standard bios chip - perhaps it made something go out of parameters (ie set a voltage too high or something) - have you tried on the ROG forums ? they're normally very helpful
 
I fitted the new bios and pressed the small red button on the mobo to reset bios and for a second I thought it was booting but it just gives a short burst of the fans and then goes off and repeats?

Im wondering that although the bios is Ivy Bridge compatible if I installed a Sand Bridge CPU would it boot?????
 
Since I dont have another CPU I have to dismantle this one to use my i5 in the IV Extreme to test it. I must have done it half a dozen time now just to check things. I tried again and cleared the Cmos but its still the same. AFAIK the board is dead:(

Thanks for the help though
 
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