- May 7, 2013
- 404
- 0
- 0
Yes, yours truly made a bonehead manoeuvre and managed to corrupt the motherboard BIOS within less than half an hour of switching on the newly built computer. 
How did I attain this glorious state of ineptitude?
After installing the Win7 OS I installed the Gigabyte Utilities one of which is called @BIOS. In the past I have had good experiences - or should I say never had a bad experience - with this program on my X58 Gigabyte motherboard (X58A-UD3R)
What this utility does is it allows you to flash the BIOS from the Windows OS. I know, I know, "Don't ever flash the BIOS from Windows" etc. et al ad nausaem ... I did however become somewhat lax due to my previous experiences with @BIOS in the past.
Anyway after the utility gave me the message that the BIOS upgrade had been unsuccessful I rebooted the system and it basically went ape-dump. It was one of those, "But it seemed like a good idea at the time", moments.
There are two switches on top right hand side of the X87Z-UD5H board. One of the switches (top switch) is to switch from Main BIOS to Backup BIOS, the switch under that is to change from Dual BIOS to Single BIOS.
By default these switches are on position "1" meaning Main BIOS and Dual BIOS respectively.
To get the system booting again one has to change both of the switches to position "2" which would be "Backup BIOS" and "Single BIOS".
This will now allow you to reboot your system and load the OS.
This is the point where, if I had been a total ID-TEN-T I would have clicked on @BIOS to give it a second chance to flash the BIOS and in the process turning the motherboard irrevocably into something which had all the processing power of a sandy beach.
After loading the OS go to the Gigabyte site and download the latest BIOS and then copy it onto a USB flash drive formatted with FAT32.
Now reboot the system and press <Del> to go into the BIOS.
When you have done that click the switch on the motherboard to position "1", the "Main BIOS" which got corrupted. Now go to the exit part of the BIOS and you will see a screen and you will see "Q-Flash". When you click on that you will see "Update BIOS from drive".
This will let you browse your USB flash drive to where you stored the downloaded the BIOS upgrade.
Because you have flipped the switch on the motherboard the BIOS that you are upgrading will not be the BIOS that you are looking at on your screen.
After that is successfully upgraded then boot into the "Main BIOS" and do the same for the "Backup BIOS".
How did I attain this glorious state of ineptitude?
After installing the Win7 OS I installed the Gigabyte Utilities one of which is called @BIOS. In the past I have had good experiences - or should I say never had a bad experience - with this program on my X58 Gigabyte motherboard (X58A-UD3R)
What this utility does is it allows you to flash the BIOS from the Windows OS. I know, I know, "Don't ever flash the BIOS from Windows" etc. et al ad nausaem ... I did however become somewhat lax due to my previous experiences with @BIOS in the past.
Anyway after the utility gave me the message that the BIOS upgrade had been unsuccessful I rebooted the system and it basically went ape-dump. It was one of those, "But it seemed like a good idea at the time", moments.
There are two switches on top right hand side of the X87Z-UD5H board. One of the switches (top switch) is to switch from Main BIOS to Backup BIOS, the switch under that is to change from Dual BIOS to Single BIOS.
By default these switches are on position "1" meaning Main BIOS and Dual BIOS respectively.
To get the system booting again one has to change both of the switches to position "2" which would be "Backup BIOS" and "Single BIOS".
This will now allow you to reboot your system and load the OS.
This is the point where, if I had been a total ID-TEN-T I would have clicked on @BIOS to give it a second chance to flash the BIOS and in the process turning the motherboard irrevocably into something which had all the processing power of a sandy beach.
After loading the OS go to the Gigabyte site and download the latest BIOS and then copy it onto a USB flash drive formatted with FAT32.
Now reboot the system and press <Del> to go into the BIOS.
When you have done that click the switch on the motherboard to position "1", the "Main BIOS" which got corrupted. Now go to the exit part of the BIOS and you will see a screen and you will see "Q-Flash". When you click on that you will see "Update BIOS from drive".
This will let you browse your USB flash drive to where you stored the downloaded the BIOS upgrade.
Because you have flipped the switch on the motherboard the BIOS that you are upgrading will not be the BIOS that you are looking at on your screen.
After that is successfully upgraded then boot into the "Main BIOS" and do the same for the "Backup BIOS".
Last edited:
Facebook
Twitter