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Messed up BIOS - any luck???

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farscapesg1

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OK, I received a RMA for my MSI K8N NEO FSR (MS7030-20) motherboard. Everything finally looked like was working good and everything booted up to Windows. Then their Live Update software said there was an updated BIOS, so I downloaded it, created the backup disks as recommended and ran the .

I updated it and rebooted and I kept having issues with the hard drives detecting sometimes and not others. So I decided to go back to the version they had sent it with(which I made a copy of). Followed all the steps again, but this time the process took a really long time and gave me a "verify failed". I tried running the Winflash again with the backed-up bios with the same result. I tried closing the Winflash application and the system automatically rebooted

Now the system will not even post. No error beeps or anything, just powers on with all the fans spinning and the hard drive spinning up, but no video at all.

Is there any hope of fixing this short of replacing the BIOS? Please tell me there is something I can do I've already tried clearing the CMOS without any luck.

If not, here is my next dilema. This is a socket 754 motherboard with a Athlon 64 3200+, Radeon 9800 Pro, and Kingston HyperX PC3200 memory. Would it make more sense to try to sell of the good parts (memory, processor, video) and use the money to buy newer equipment, or just buy a new socket 754 motherboard?
 
looks like the backup image of the bios was messed up somehow.

shouldn't of take that long to program with winflash.

either get your existing chip reflash or order a new that will solve the problem.
 
Originally posted by: DJMiX
looks like the backup image of the bios was messed up somehow.

shouldn't of take that long to program with winflash.

either get your existing chip reflash or order a new that will solve the problem.
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🙁

Well, before I go and spend $30 on a new bios, I'll just go out and buy a new board. I've had nothing but trouble with this MSI anyways. I might have well gone with an ECS for all the effort I have put into it (3 RMA's).

Now I just have to decide if I want to keep the processor and everything, or try to sell the working parts and start with a more up-to-date system instead of the socket 754/AGP.

Will a Nvidia 6600 be a step down from a Radeon 9800 Pro?
 
A 6600gt is about equivalent to a Radeon 9800 Pro (slightly faster in some cases). I'd sell the video card and buy the DFI Infinity NF4X motherboard, which has Socket 754 and PCI Express and then get the fastest video card you can afford (6800gs or 7800gt).
 
Any other advice? I've got around $500 that I can work with, but part of that money was going to a HTPC case and 300 GB SATA drive for my HTPC system, so really that will leave me with around $200. $100 for the motherboard and $100 for the video (plus whatever I can get if I sell off my Radeon 9700 Pro from my HTPC and use the 9800 Pro in it instead).
 
Did you think of downloading the first bios on another computer and saving
to a floppy for install on yours ?
 
I've got a recovery disk, plus another boot disk with an older BIOS on it. The problem is that it never tries to read from the floppy drive 🙁 Everything seems to power up, but no floppy drive access and no video on the screen.
 
Woohooo 🙂

Apparently, the system didn't want to boot with a AGP card 😕

I pulled the AGP card out and put in a PCI card, and it booted to the floppy so I could recover the BIOS. Then I just had to pull the PCI card out and put the AGP card back in and it appears to be up and working.
 
With the origanal bios intalled you should be good to go.
Be careful on your next bios flash. I have used the LiveUpdate on two
Msi boards and never had any issues. When you use it again make sure
to close any non essential programs running and even firewalls.
These can pose problems with a bios update in general.
 
Hi there..

I did exactly the same thing here yesterday with my K8N Neo motherboard... and now its totaly dead... doesnt do a thing...

I tried the thing you wrote about pci graphic card but didnt work for me here...

Anyone else have any good ideas for how i can get it to work for me again...
or is it just to go out there and buy me a new one now ?

 
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