ASUS IPIBL-LB HP/Benicia-GL8E BIOS Flash gone bad. Need help!

[mvrx]

I am in despirate need of help to fix a corrupt BIOS in my new HP m9300t. I did a BSEL mod on the 2.66ghz Q6700 so the motherboard would choose to change it from 1066mhz FSB to 1333mhz FSB (thus 3.33ghz). The IPIBL motherboard seemed to recognize and post at 3.33ghz just fine, but about midway booting it would always hard reset. My BSEL modded 2.4ghz Q6600 came up at 3.0ghz just fine and was 100% stable.

So, instead of accepting defeat, I got the bad idea to flash the board with a modified BIOS that was located Here

It seemed to write just fine, but upon reboot I get no video, a 10 second pause, then a BEEP every second until shut down. About 6 seconds into the power on, the CDROM drive reads a little, and the HD light blinks just a couple times.

I've tried using the onboard VGA (which was covered by a "do not remove" rubber cover, as well as an old PCI video card in the single available PCI slot. And of course the GeForce 9800GT 1GB card that came with it. No video output on any of them.

The MB has a SPI header

Here are all the Motherboard Specs

I have an identical machine sitting here with a working BIOS. (so if I had a reader/writer I could probably grab the good BIOS image?)

I have tried (over and over) to use the BIOS clear jumper, and even left the battery out overnight to see if that would fix it.

I've looked around on sites like This one for a SPI reader/programmer but I have no clue what I need.

I also wonder if that, even tho I have no video, and the beeps, if there is anyway to have a boot CD or bootflash drive with an automatic script that would attempt the flash back the original - or if the BIOS is so far gone it's not even going to try to read any disk/usb drive.

I would greatly appreciate anyone's help or tips.

(related notes and links)
Models: OEM Asus IPIBL-LB. HP Model name: Benicia-GL8E
FYI, the BIOS rev that came with my board was 5.28

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: mvrx
So, instead of accepting defeat, I got the bad idea to flash the board with a modified BIOS that was located HERE:

You figured that a BIOS modded to pirate Windows via SLP OEM activation would help your BSEL mod work better? Nice try.

Check the bullsh-t category, last door on the left, they might be running low. We're all stocked up in here.

 

[mvrx]

No offense dude, but put away the attitude. I got Vista 64-bit Home Premium with the system. I'm not trying to pirate anything. As I said above, I was trying to get my Q6700 to run at 3.33ghz on the motherboard which I assumed needed a little voltage bump. Something I cannot do with the stock BIOS, I know I voided my warantee and I can live with that. I'm simply trying to fix now what I've broken.

I wasn't trying to get it to "work better", I was trying to get it to "work". Since the same chip runs perfectly stable in my system that has a retail board, I assumed it was the IPIBL motherboard not accounting for the unexpected difference.

If you can't contribute something to help me, how about you don't reply to the thread.

 

[tcsenter]

When do we get to the part where you show us the discussion topic about flashing the BIOS from a retail board onto your OEM board?

The discussion that you linked to is about SLP activation modded BIOS. Ergo, you're either too stupid to understand the difference, or you're not. Which do you prefer?

 

[mvrx]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
When do we get to the part where you show us the discussion topic about flashing the BIOS from a retail board onto your OEM board? The discussion that you linked to is about SLP activation modded BIOS. Ergo, you're either too stupid to understand the difference, or you're not. Which do you prefer?

I thought I did link to it. However, checking the links I noticed that the BB codes I used from another forum didn't work here and screwed up my hyperlinks. So, Here is the forum post I was referring to. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

You know TCS, I've respected your posts for quite a while here in the forums, but your lack of tact -- and name calling, kind of just lowered that opinion.

I hadn't even read much of that thread about people working for SLP activation, I was more focused on finding a way for my BIOS to give me a little more configurability. I don't really have a need for more than the Vista Premium that came with my system. The only thing I really needed was multi-user terminal services, which due to a a little hacking patch, I can now do. Perhaps you'd like to flame me for that as well?

Thank you for distracting any readers from my thread's original purpose. Keep up the valuable contributions.