BIOS update failure...am I hosed?

[Tsavo]

I tried to update the BIOS on my Gigabyte KN8-SLI and it black screened after reboot.

Is this board hosed? It just has a black screen and clearing CMOS doesn't work.

So, bricked?

 

[RaiderJ]

What worked on my Dell motherboard was to boot off a floppy drive and run a BIOS update tool from autoexec.bat.

 

[ZimZum]

You can try wiping the chip and reflashing. If that doesnt work, you need a new Bios chip. Bad Flash sells them pre flashed with whatever bios you want.

 

[CptCrunch]

it looks like it has a 3 year warranty, when did you buy it? You can try calling gigabyte and see what they say. You might get lucky and they might help you out or replace it.

 

[Tsavo]

You can try wiping the chip and reflashing. If that doesnt work, you need a new Bios chip. Bad Flash sells them pre flashed with whatever bios you want.

BIOS is soldered on.

 

[Rubycon]

Does that board have Q-Flash?

Look through the guide here:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/bios-flashing-how-qflash-guide-27576/

Even if you don't have a floppy drive a USB pen will work!

 

[hans007]

BIOS is soldered on.

you are probably screwed.

if it was socketed you could do a hot flash , but too bad. i guess if you were crazy or just really good with a soldering iron you could desolder the chip, hot flash it in a board with a socket, and then solder it back on..

 

[us3rnotfound]

A lazy individual such as myself would see this as an excellent upgrade opportunity

But of course, troubleshoot before that.