MSI KT7 Pro2..I screwed up the bios!!! Now it won't do sh!ZZ..HELP..***JAMEY NEED A RESPONSE PLEASE***

[BAMAVOO]

I was upgrading to the OCers bios..I was using WinFlash...Rebooted now all I get is beeping and three red lights..Not even a chance to get to the bios or anything..Any ideas? Think I can RMA it? Or is it just trash now.. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP...
Thanks

 

[Jamey]

Try to clear the CMOS by shorting the pins on the MB. Look in the unstruction manual for the placement.

 

[BAMAVOO]

That didn't work....N E other Ideas? What is the Insert Key Trick?

 

[Jamey]

Which three lights are red...give me the code. Looking from the front of the case to the back, what is the color of the LED's from left to right? Wouldn't happen to be red, green, red, red would it?

 

[compuwiz1]

Hold the insert key down, while powering up and hold it for 10 seconds or so.

You probably have a bad flash and will need to contact MSI about an RMA. They should do it for you, or the vendor.

 

[watkins]

Did the same thing, ended up pulling the bios chip and sent to MSI. They reprogramed and sent back to me. My cost was the shipping to
them. They shipped back 3day USPS in an envelope.

 

[Jamey]

oh, that would suck sooo bad. That's like a week or more without a computer. If I go that long without getting on a computer, I better be sipping drinks on a beach somewhere!

 

[BAMAVOO]

Good thing is I have a second and a laptop

Thanks for the help..Looks like I will be contacting MSI

 

[BAMAVOO]

Hey Watkins...did you just call them up or did you have to do the RMA thing? How did you get the chip out? Is there a tool for that?

 

[BAMAVOO]

Yep Jamey that is the color code...What is up is that bad???

 

[ericb]

That color code is either a memory error or a keyboard error...I'm not sure of the order of the lights since I'm going by the manual and not looking at the board. If the keyboard is working then it should be the memory error. Try pulling the memory chips out and putting them back in.

 

[Moonbender]

The readme.txt of some past BIOS update of mine includes a part about how to repair a mis-flashed BIOS. Apparantly, a very small subset of BIOS instructions is never flashed, which allows the computer to boot to a disk and start a new BIOS flash. The VGA component is killed, though, so you have to do it without seeing anything on the monitor, you have to enter the keystrokes blindly.
Sounds pretty weird, eh? I never had to try it, fortunately, but I'll try to find that readme...

Edit: Darn ... can't find it :|

 

[BAMAVOO]

It will not let me use nothing..Just starts beeping and that is it..Besides the red lights..

 

[DaddyG]

Time to contact BADFLASH.COM. They will send you a new BIOS chip pretty quickly and their prices are reasonable.

 

[Jamey]

That is the EXACT code that I got when I tried to O/C my Duron past what it wanted to. I couldn't get the comp to do S***. Something like a long beep followed by VERY annoying fast, high=pitched beeps proceeded every attempt to boot. That code is saying the "memory" is bad. I used the same stick in another board and it worked fine. I used the procesor in another board. It worked fine. I thought I had fried the M/B, but I shorted out the pins on the M/B to reset the bios. It worked fine. MAKE SURE you do that. The instructions are on page 2-4 in my user manual. If that doesn't work, take the battery out and leave it out several minutes (maybe even an hour). Both of the solutions fixed my board so it would boot. Since yours happened during a bios update, I would suspect the bios has been screwed up. I would suspect you have tried both of the steps before now, but I wanted to stress again that these are your best attempts before replacing the bios/board. If you can get it to "boot" any, try reflashing the bios in dos from a boot disc like Moonbender said. If not, it will be RMA time.

 

[SinMen]

I got the same lights when I try to go past 800Mhz on a 600. It will do 1Ghz fine on Asus, just not this PRO2A.

 

[ZoSo]

Try this,

FOR AWARD BIOS
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Make a bootable floopy disk
Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content (e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin)
Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes up)
Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.

 

[Jamey]

Zoso, he can't get that far when he turns his comp on. I had the same thing happen for a different reason I posted. There is nothing he can do until he can get his comp to get past the warning beeps. Once there, you suggestion is right on the money.

 

[ZoSo]

No harm in trying it though. If that didn't do the trick try this. If you can get your hands on another BIOS chip(thats the hard part) put that in and boot up into windows, swap chips, run the Live Bios program and let it flash to the new BIOS. Or, this is the safer way, you can set up a floppy to flash the BIOS but set it up not to flash automatically, make it so you have to type in the executable. Put the good chip in, boot the system with floppy in. When it gets to the A prompt swap the chips and then flash the BIOS. I've done this several times and it has worked fine.

Oh yeah, make sure you put the chip in the right way, you might want to mark them so you know which way it goes.