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I had a perfectly fineworking Sony SR7, I had upgraded to XP, for other reasons, I restored the entire hardrive and then upgraded to Windows XP Pro... then i decided to flash my bios.... I did, apparently unsuccessfully... now I cant even get power in the machine.. when I attach a power cord, the hard drive lite, lites up for a tenth of a second... thats it.. no more life to this computer.. any help ?????
Posted by: sammyg at May 23, 2006 7:33 PMwillem ur a champion, i just bought a k8nf-9 from ebay (used) wouldnt boot, memory post then kept restarting at that point.
removed cmos battery, shorted for a couple of secs. PROBLEM SOLVED!
thanks again willem
suds
Here is another place you can fix your bios in Canada: http://biosxp.net
Posted by: biosfix at June 22, 2006 8:01 PMHello Everybody,
Desktop Computer IBM Aptiva 2153 E3N computer. The bios version was V70EN2B. I went to the website for IBM and downloaded the right version. Due to problems with the cd-rom not booting etc. I had to flash the bios. Now I downloaded the flyflsh.exe program from the IBM website and made a floppy (yes, a good new clean floppy). I booted with the floppy in the drive and it printed something like Bios version is already up-to-date and it will not be updated. I rebooted again, etc. same message. so I made another floppy with the same program and tried again, ofcourse same results. so while i was looking on the internet and chat rooms for help I opened the second extra floppy from within windows xp. I found what the autoexec.bat file does, what programs it runs etc. now I found that there are two programs in there flsfrnt3.exe and iflash.exe with three different version of bios files ... V70EN2B etc. etc. with just the last two letters different. So i figured that the message that the bios is uptodate and not updated was what i would expect. then looking into other files, i found a message.dat from where i found the option /nd meaning don't check the date etc. so i figured this is the way to go. so i boot up the aptiva and instead of consulting anybody or asking anybody if i should do this or not i punched in the characters "iflash nd" at the A:\> prompt. i believe the program is working i can hear some whirring sound, and i see that the light on the floppy is on. I did not give it any option of what file to write etc. Ok here is the good part.... i have been looking at the same screen for more than 18 hours now... is that normal? I am getting a little worried but almost every website/article/email/newsgroup discussion I searched on the internet about bios flashing.. says do not reboot unless prompted to do so. so i m not touching anything yet. I am waiting for something to happen.. till then, any help would be appreciated. Atleast a general indication of how long this is supposed to take..
thanxs all.
Posted by: taoscotch at July 22, 2006 6:48 PMi tried to update my bios software bout when i have reboot the computer nothing happens there was nothing on the screen i think i have deleted the software bios on the flash chip so what i could do to solve the problem my board is via pm800 lga775 please help me to solve the problem and please take my advice and never apdate your bios
Posted by: charbel at July 25, 2006 11:24 AMApparently while updating the bios for my Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard I selected the wrong bios. There is a GA-K8NSNXP which is not a socket 939 motherboard. Anyway, the system will not boot even after removing the bios battery several times and shorting the contacts. All I get is the post "beep" continually and no video, keyboard, etc. Any thoughts besides buying a new motherboard.
Posted by: Larry Dalton at September 4, 2006 2:23 PMPhew! Had exactly the same problem as Shawn 'Gigabyte K8NF-9 rev 1 board [updating] from F4 to F11 using thier @Bios software provided'. Not a good feeling! Took the battery out for 3min, shorted the contacts, restarted without a problem. Thanks Willem!!
Posted by: Kennedy at September 28, 2006 1:40 AMHp will be hearing from me...
After flashing the BIOS of an HP desktop machine with an application downloaded from the HP site listed for the same model of system board (ASUS), the installer reported "successful" however, after rebooting, the system will not POST. I am pissed off and i will see to what extent HP will stand beside their own BS. Anyways, this will probably result in the purchase of a new system board but what the hell?
Posted by: Ryan at September 30, 2006 10:33 PMYeah, I had/have a GA-M55SLI-S4 in a BRAND NEW SLI rig from Ibuypower and i Used gigabyte's @BIOS utility and breezed through like I had so many countless times in the history of owning my own computer. In the middle of the flash, my computer TURNS OFF. Reset CMOS, took out the batter. NOTHING. So now this brand new computer I bought is an expensive paperweight. Luckily Ibuypower is replacing it.
Something that I have noticed breezing through here - CAREFUL WITH GIGABYTE @BIOS!!!!
Posted by: Shaun at February 21, 2007 6:30 AMWillem, you rock! I updated the bios on a Gateway E-6100, and the bios no longer detected anything on the primary IDE channel. I have flashed the bios on dozens of computers, so I'm not a newbie. Your suggestion of removing the battery saved my bacon.
Posted by: Ellen at June 5, 2007 3:08 PM
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