Can you revert back to older bios?

[ingeborgdot]

I put in the new bios but ever since it has been shutting off on its own. Can I revert back to the older one? It's not much older just a month or two.

 

[rivan]

Yes, if you either backed up your old BIOS or if it's still available on the manufacturer website.

 

[ingeborgdot]

It is on a gigabyte k8ns pro. It is a 754 board. What could be causing this?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Most mobo manufacturers keep an archive of older BIOS versions. Check the manufacture's website.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: ingeborgdot
It is on a gigabyte k8ns pro. It is a 754 board. What could be causing this?

Any of a billion things. With more details, someone here might be able to help in a more thorough manner.

 

[wpshooter]

Have you checked the bios parameters to see if anything was reset by the update that might be causing the restarting ? If you don't see anything that is obvious, you might want to reset the bios parameters to their defaults and see if that will fix problem, BUT you may have to wind up reinstalling your O/S !!!!

 

[engineereeyore]

could you explain "shutting off on it's own"? when does it happen, in or before windows? any errors?

 

[keeleysam]

Why don't you reset the CMOS?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Pop. Off it goes with no warning. I installed the new bios and that is when it started. I finally got through to gigabyte and he said something about the new bios dealing with raid drivers. I didn't install any or anything like that. He said to do an xp repair to reinstall any driver that were missing because I found in devices there was a raid bus that had a yellow question mark by it. I am repairing the computer right now. Wierd.

 

[xgsound]

After flashing a new bios it is good procedure to clear the bios, apply default settings, and reapply any changes you have done in the past. I suggest you do this before trying a repair install.

Do you use raid or not? If not this should be disabled in bios. If raid is not being used you do not need a raid driver and there would be no Yellow question mark. If raid is being used the question mark means that the driver has improperly loaded. I've never used raid devices so check here at Anandtech or use google for the procedure to reload faulty raid drivers. Generally devices can be removed in device manager and redetected upon bootup, but I'm not sure if this applies to raid drivers.

Try these before trying the repair install.


Jim

 

[ingeborgdot]

What do you mean clear the bios?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Why don't you reset the CMOS?

Explain?

 

[xgsound]

Clearing the bios is mobo specific. The mobo manual or web site is the best place for acurate info.

Basicly, this clears out operator changable data. Usually this is done by moving a bios jumper from "run" to "clear" / wait 5 minutes and return the jumper to "run".

Then post the machine and immediately go into bios (usually press delete) to load the default settings.

After this, if you do not use raid, you should find and disable it in bios.


Jim