Hello everyone - hoping you can help me....
A Gigabyte GA-P45-DS3R I just bought less than a week ago has lost both its main BIOS and the on-board backup Gigabyte has as a feature. Don't know how. Went to work and machine was working fine. Got home and it was BSODed in Vista. Rebooted and got a very fast "CMOS CHECKSUM FAILURE" message then got into the state I'm in now.....
Now, when booting, I get no POST screen at all, but instead an "Award Bootblock 1.0" "Scanning Hard Drive for BIOS Image" screen. Then just hangs there. Nothing else happens. (let it run 4 hours and rebooted many, many times). I had turned off the floppy drive completely because I didn't have one, and now find from reading several forums that if you do that Award Bootblock won't ask for a floppy ever. Remember again that NOTHING comes up when I boot but the Award BootBlock screen and keyboard is unresponsive. I tried hooking a floppy up anyway to see what would happen, and nothing....it doesn't even look for it.
My last thing to try was purchasing another of the same board. I then tried booting up on it, hoping the hard drive BIOS image it is supposedly looking for would be saved to the HDD by the good board. After that I then put the "bad' board back in - but no luck.....apparently the Award Bootblock software still doesn't see anything on the drive.
Last I tried a 2GB Flash Drive and then formatting an old 20GB Drive I had as FAT32, putting only the .BIN file on them, and booting up only with that drive connected, hoping it would see that BIN file. No luck. Also of course tried removing battery and clearing the CMOS jumper overnight...
I'd return the board if I could of course, but when installing the proc, a couple of pins were slightly moved. (still works fine, just is slightly moved) - Didn't notice it until I went to return. Fry's electronics has refused return and marked down the SN so I cannot ever return it. They say Gigabyte won't take it so they can't. (Gigabyte, is this true?)
Any ideas? Seems I'm out of options.....
A Gigabyte GA-P45-DS3R I just bought less than a week ago has lost both its main BIOS and the on-board backup Gigabyte has as a feature. Don't know how. Went to work and machine was working fine. Got home and it was BSODed in Vista. Rebooted and got a very fast "CMOS CHECKSUM FAILURE" message then got into the state I'm in now.....
Now, when booting, I get no POST screen at all, but instead an "Award Bootblock 1.0" "Scanning Hard Drive for BIOS Image" screen. Then just hangs there. Nothing else happens. (let it run 4 hours and rebooted many, many times). I had turned off the floppy drive completely because I didn't have one, and now find from reading several forums that if you do that Award Bootblock won't ask for a floppy ever. Remember again that NOTHING comes up when I boot but the Award BootBlock screen and keyboard is unresponsive. I tried hooking a floppy up anyway to see what would happen, and nothing....it doesn't even look for it.
My last thing to try was purchasing another of the same board. I then tried booting up on it, hoping the hard drive BIOS image it is supposedly looking for would be saved to the HDD by the good board. After that I then put the "bad' board back in - but no luck.....apparently the Award Bootblock software still doesn't see anything on the drive.
Last I tried a 2GB Flash Drive and then formatting an old 20GB Drive I had as FAT32, putting only the .BIN file on them, and booting up only with that drive connected, hoping it would see that BIN file. No luck. Also of course tried removing battery and clearing the CMOS jumper overnight...
I'd return the board if I could of course, but when installing the proc, a couple of pins were slightly moved. (still works fine, just is slightly moved) - Didn't notice it until I went to return. Fry's electronics has refused return and marked down the SN so I cannot ever return it. They say Gigabyte won't take it so they can't. (Gigabyte, is this true?)
Any ideas? Seems I'm out of options.....
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