GA-8KNXP Rev 2.0 Wont boot after BIOS update

[mf_read]

Folks,

This is my 1st post here, I would have preferred if it was not of this nature but, this is what I have stupidly done.

Bought a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP this weekend and have installed it.

It has worked great until I have just flashed the BIOS.

I downloaded BIOS for the GA-8KNXP and not the GA-8KNXP Rev 2.0 board.

I also did not reboot after the first update and decided to flash with a different version before rebooting.

I think that I have flashed the BIOS with the wrong version and because I have done it twice, the dual BIOS is corrupted with two faulty/incorrect versions for this system.

The funny thing is that the flash program did not complain about the wrong version being applied, My system does not even POST now.

Any Ideas on what I can do, apart from send the baord away?

Mike

[dafanman]

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Have a look at this, see if it helps

Flashing your BIOS
When you want to flash your BIOS, the safest, best way to go is to NOT use @Bios. Download the BIOS you'd like, unzip it and place it on a floppy disk and restart your computer. Then enter the BIOS and use QFlash to flash your BIOS. It is MUCH safer than flashing with @Bios from within Windows, as well as more reliable.

If you somehow manage to FUBAR your BIOS, and it spouts out an error like "insert a floppy with the proper BIOS", do the following (courtesy of "-= PR3ACH3R =-"-You Rock man!)
-= PR3ACH3R =- wrote:
Make a CLEAN bootable floopy disk, with
no memory managers No Config.sys, etc.

Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to It.
Create an autoexec.bat with the following text

FLASHUTILNAME.EXE BIOSFILENAME.BIN /R
so if the flash util is called FLASHUTIL.EXE &
the Bios File is called BIOS,
youll have to write this in your file :

FLASHUTIL.EXE BIOS.BIN /R

Boot the system with the floppy ,
Wait for it to flash the BIOS & reboot.
it takes a some time so be patient.

if this failes, Do the same only this time change the
AUTOEXEC FILE to include this:

FLASHUTILNAME.EXE BIOSFILENAME.BIN /py /Sb /sn /cc /cp /cd /R

again - replace the fake variables I have chosen here with the real file names..

Make sure you never run any of these scripts inside windows!!

Taken from nforcers gigabyte forum f.a.q

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29691

Good luck, there is lots of other good info in there too

[mf_read]

Thanks for the prompt reply, but,

My machine only powers on, I get the amber light on the monitor and basically nothing else.

I cant boot from floppy.

Why would the board have allowed me to flash with incorrect BIOS.

I think that I am jinkxed, this is the 3rd board I have had.

The first would not power on
The second went on fire as soon as I turned it on
The third ........... BIOS problem.

I am no amature, I'm 14 years in the business and this board has been the worst ever to date. Should have gone for ASUS.!!!!!

[paul9]

is there a link to disable your dual bios. that may prompt your mobo to ask for the bios repair to be done.

[Juber]

i have same problem before... but got the solusion... i used GA-8KNXP Rev. 2.0 too... and i did flash my bios with the GA-8KNXP Rev. 1.0 bios. the GA-8KNXP Rev. 1.0 bios are F4, F5, and the leatest F6 version, and the GA-8KNXP Rev. 2.0 are FB and the beta version FCg. just try to locate the battery and remove it for 5 minutes then place the battery (this gonna make the auto recovery system active) if you lucky, you can go to the bios. try to enter the dual bios menu by press the F8 key... change the boot from bios option with secondary bios and save setting to bios. and press Esc key to reset the system and after the system reset, enter the bios menu again, and enter the dual bios menu again, now chose copy secondari bios to main bios. after it done, now you have both main and secondary bios with the original fector FB version bios. just change the boot from bios option to main bios again and chose save to bios... now reset the system again... now your board as good as new... i suggest never to use the @bios program from gigabyte to flash your bios. but just use the dual bios option on the bios (F8 key)... hope this help...

[Juber]

to enter the dual bios menu you just enter the bios first (by hit the del key) and from inside the bios menu press F8 key