Gigabyte X48T - BIOS F5 - AVOID

PhotoGsy · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:01

Just wanted to let people know that they should AVOID BIOS F5 dated 18th July.
Flashing this BIOS will brick your mobo.

Too late for me - it flashed successfully, but now just reboots over and over, won't even post.

Possible fix here:
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=456956

Not sure I'm comfortable shorting out pins on the mobo though - think it's going to have to go back for repair.

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:07

i'd try it personally

PhotoGsy · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:16

I'm tempted - is it likely to completely fry it though?!!

Don't want to burn my bridges and end up with them not RMA'ing it

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 11:33

no idea mate!

Skyboat · 23 Jul 2008 at 13:05

Gotta love how dual-BIOS boards are still able to be bricked

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:04

they should make them like this..

2x bios chips, if everything's working fine & dandy, you can copy one to the other

then if you flash one, and it fails, use a jumper onboard to select the other bios chip, boot in with that, and copy that back to the main one

simple & effective

PhotoGsy · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:30

bledd. said:
...then if you flash one, and it fails, use a jumper onboard to select the other bios chip, boot in with that, and copy that back to the main one

Totally agree

ken1307 · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:45

eh, I thought that the backup bios on gigabyte board is not flashable? Im sure it says something like the in the manual

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 15:06

if you read the gigabyte forums (tweaktown) it seems the backup bios fails to act a lot of the time :/

PhotoGsy · 23 Jul 2008 at 19:00

Well I can confirm that the 'shorting out' trick does indeed work!!
Sooo glad she's up and running again!

Cob · 23 Jul 2008 at 19:45

Cool!