All night, new Bios, and my new rig is gone!! HELP!!!!

[fabidovalle]

Hi, i have been waiting for a month for my classes to be over so i could assemble my first rig.
Here is my problem, everything was going ok after assemblying it all night long, until i flashed the Bios on my mobo, and now the PC won't even show anything on screen when i boot it.
I have an Epox 9NPA +SLi, needless to say, and i found out just now, Epox does not have customer support (phones) in the US!
I tried changing the jumps to restore the old bios but nothing happened. Is there another way to restore the previous Bios???
Anything else i can do???
Thanks for any help!
🙁

 

[ZimZum]

http://www.badflash.com/

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Did you try resetting the CMOS?

 

[fabidovalle]

Originally posted by: ZimZum
http://www.badflash.com/

Thanks for the link. I am somewhat lucky because Newegg gave me a RMA, but then it will be a pain in the ass to take everything apart to send them my mobo.

I saw this on another site:
Unplug the CMOS battery
disconnect the power
Press the power button
Run around the house yelling and scream (at least 30 secs)

Come back, plug the power in and turn on the PC.

I tried for 30 secs and for a few minutes but nothing. I will for a few hours, if nothing happens i will send it back to newegg.com for an exchange!

 

[fabidovalle]

Originally posted by: BroadbandGamer
Did you try resetting the CMOS?

The way i described above, changing the jumpers or another way??
thanks

 

[professor1942]

Try both - unplug the battery, then change the jumpers for a few seconds, then put the battery back in.

 

[Killrose]

Clearing CMOS only put the bios back into defaults that are always loaded on the bios rom chip to get the board to run on initial set-up.

If it ran fine before the bios flash, then the bios is corrupt and nothing but a bios chip with a good bios will fix it. However, if you have the bios on a bootable floppy, you could try starting the comp, and with the bootable floppy with bios on it, it might load itself.

I know it sounds crazy, but I had a bad flash on an nForce2 Epox 8RDA, and Epox had some sort of emergency auto bios loading that took off when I booted the computer with the bios on a bootable floppy.

 

[fabidovalle]

I did not back up the bios before flashing (besides, my floppy wasn't working properly prior to this problem).
Oh well, learnt the hard way. Newegg gave me a RMA, so i am sending it tomorrow!!
Thanks for all the feedback!