I busted my motherboard while updating the bios
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I knew it was bound to happen, I just suck at those things. I tried several things yesterday to recover. I've not found the appropriate magical incantations to bring it back to life. I'll remove everything (gpu, cpu... )later today and start again. it'a gigabyte board, the q-flash should work to bring is alive. (maybe????) Anyway sucks big time. :^)
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The one time you can brick your motherboard is when flashing the BIOS. The problem is that the chip is soldered to the board. Living in the embedded world, we are very, very careful when updating boot loaders (sort of like a BIOS). If we fail, we have to get out the hardware and connect to diagnostic ports. This might help: How to fix corrupt BIOS ROM with BIOS Switch (BIOS_SW)? | FAQ - GIGABYTE Global[^]
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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I knew it was bound to happen, I just suck at those things. I tried several things yesterday to recover. I've not found the appropriate magical incantations to bring it back to life. I'll remove everything (gpu, cpu... )later today and start again. it'a gigabyte board, the q-flash should work to bring is alive. (maybe????) Anyway sucks big time. :^)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Why did you update your bios if you suck at these things?
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Why did you update your bios if you suck at these things?
Most (all?) motherboards don't support the new 13th generation intel CPU. From what I could see from various sources, it should be a simple process if you're not me.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I knew it was bound to happen, I just suck at those things. I tried several things yesterday to recover. I've not found the appropriate magical incantations to bring it back to life. I'll remove everything (gpu, cpu... )later today and start again. it'a gigabyte board, the q-flash should work to bring is alive. (maybe????) Anyway sucks big time. :^)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
is there any way to restore everything? I am curious to learn from your updating BIOS.:rose:
diligent hands rule....
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Most (all?) motherboards don't support the new 13th generation intel CPU. From what I could see from various sources, it should be a simple process if you're not me.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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is there any way to restore everything? I am curious to learn from your updating BIOS.:rose:
diligent hands rule....
IIRC some newer boards have a function where they can run a BIOS flash utility if plugged into a specific port stored in ROM where it can't be taken out by a normal BIOS update.
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is there any way to restore everything? I am curious to learn from your updating BIOS.:rose:
diligent hands rule....
it should. my gigabyte board has q-flash it allows to update the motherboard without any hardware installed. you plug in a usb key with the bios file, press a button and the bios should update with some led flashing. In my case it started working and I probably (surely) interrupted it before it was complete ( misread the led indicator) Now when I try updating, nothing happens.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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it should. my gigabyte board has q-flash it allows to update the motherboard without any hardware installed. you plug in a usb key with the bios file, press a button and the bios should update with some led flashing. In my case it started working and I probably (surely) interrupted it before it was complete ( misread the led indicator) Now when I try updating, nothing happens.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
I think the code for updating the BIOS is also part of the BIOS, so if your BIOS won't run, then no updating.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think the code for updating the BIOS is also part of the BIOS, so if your BIOS won't run, then no updating.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
that's probably it. but motherboards should have read-only default bios that we could always revert to. I'm willing to pay an extra for good foolproof systems like that.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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that's probably it. but motherboards should have read-only default bios that we could always revert to. I'm willing to pay an extra for good foolproof systems like that.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Sure, some mainboards come with two BIOS chips, a live one and a backup. If you blow out the live one, just put the backup in its place.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sure, some mainboards come with two BIOS chips, a live one and a backup. If you blow out the live one, just put the backup in its place.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Yeah, I just found out about that. I just bought a new motherboard that does not need a bios update for my 13gen Intel (mucho pesos) Maybe next time (in a few years) I'll be more cautious.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
