Hi everyone
Yet another person with a major bios problem on a Gigabyte board. I have an EP45-UD3L that I was using for my hackintosh and I tried to flash the bios with a mac friendly one designed for the EP45. Well, that didn't go well and I now have the dreaded bios boot loop.
I have tried everything I could find both here and other places on the web to no avail, still can't get it happening. I have tried reflashing the bios via F8, with CMOS battery, without CMOS battery, shorting pins 6 & 8 on the main bios etc etc. Sometimes I can get into the bios screens, have tried failsafe default, optimum defaults etc, other times the board will just keep going round in circles. All of this was done with no hard drives connected, 1 stick of 1B ram, an nVidia GT430 and a Logitec USB keyboard. Oh, the main bios was flashed just today with F9. I also tried going back to F4 but no luck.
Before I found tweaktown I found replacement bios chips on ebay: eBay Australia: Buy new & used fashion, electronics & home d and almost boaught a couple to fix the problem. But, I decided to come here first to see if I can get it working before I go down the replacement chip route.
So I am currently open to any and all suggestions.
Cheers
Bruce
Yet another person with a major bios problem on a Gigabyte board. I have an EP45-UD3L that I was using for my hackintosh and I tried to flash the bios with a mac friendly one designed for the EP45. Well, that didn't go well and I now have the dreaded bios boot loop.
I have tried everything I could find both here and other places on the web to no avail, still can't get it happening. I have tried reflashing the bios via F8, with CMOS battery, without CMOS battery, shorting pins 6 & 8 on the main bios etc etc. Sometimes I can get into the bios screens, have tried failsafe default, optimum defaults etc, other times the board will just keep going round in circles. All of this was done with no hard drives connected, 1 stick of 1B ram, an nVidia GT430 and a Logitec USB keyboard. Oh, the main bios was flashed just today with F9. I also tried going back to F4 but no luck.
Before I found tweaktown I found replacement bios chips on ebay: eBay Australia: Buy new & used fashion, electronics & home d and almost boaught a couple to fix the problem. But, I decided to come here first to see if I can get it working before I go down the replacement chip route.
So I am currently open to any and all suggestions.
Cheers
Bruce
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