motherboard help

ricsouthcott · 7 Oct 2009 at 22:00

i have a Gigabyte M750SLi-DS4 board and just added a AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.00GHz (Socket AM2+) - Retail , fitted ok powered on and no screen on monitor no bios sound any ideas?

RJC · 7 Oct 2009 at 22:10

Check your BIOS rev, looking at the website you need F7.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2819#anchor_os

Sometimes a CMOS reset may work if your running the above BIOS rev.

ricsouthcott · 7 Oct 2009 at 22:13

never flashed the bios before and board is well over 2 years old , is it easy to flash sorry i am new to this

RJC · 7 Oct 2009 at 22:20

I tend to use windows BIOS programe to update my BIOS but this can be more risky.

Another way is using Q flash - Clicky

But you will need to put your old cpu in.

Turk · 8 Oct 2009 at 11:10

I tend to always update to the latest bios version through windows and touch wood I've never encountered a problem yet!

Gigabyte do a nice little utility called @BIOS which allows you to do live updates over the internet by connecting to their servers, and its very easy to use. Start the utility up and save your current bios first, then click on the “Update bios from Gigabyte server” The whole process takes a few minutes and if you do encounter any problems you use the same programme to restore your backed-up bios.

LINK

Turk.