xfx 790i ultra dead bios flash

[arrowpc]

Hi everyone, I am a virgin to this site so please be gentle lol !!

I hae a slight problem, I flashed my bios through dos as usual but some how it corrupted. now when I try to boot up I get nothing on the screen, my vid card fan runs at 100% and no system beeps from the speaker on the board.

My question is apart from a hot swap of my bios chip is there any way that I can recover from this without sending back under RA for warranty.

I have so far tried to clear the cmos, left everything unplugged and taken apart for 12 hours, I have even removed the bios rom chip and re-seatted it just for the sake of doing so. I have tried plugging a PS2 keyboard in which didnt do any thing either.

I have read alot of forums and one guy suggested a bartpe or vistape cd but I cant see how that would work.

Any help would be greattly apreciatted.

Arrowpc.

[CMB]

Well this is the Off Topic forum, so we'll move your thread to tech forum.

Edit Ok now in tech talk...welcome to the forums.

[arrowpc]

ok thanks sorry about that.

[CMB]

I can't download the manual, but is there anything in there about bios recovery feature ?

[arrowpc]

to be honest I didnt even think to check that. I am looking now will report back asap.

[arrowpc]

no it doesnt have anything in the book at all.

[AMD Fanatic]

besides RMA, try contacting XFX and purchase a bios chip if they'll do that..

Could cut your down time down seriously..

[arrowpc]

ok well I have already opened a support ticket with them but not much help at the moment.

[<RuReady>]

Did you try re-dloading the bios file and reflashing? Sometimes this will solve the problem.
You also said you used dos to flash so I assume you used the floppy method. You may want to try the cd method insted.

[arrowpc]

I would love to try with a cd but I the problem that I face is that it doesnt even post, I just have a black screen of death, I had tried to re-flash with a cd and flash drive but it just would do anything. Thanks again guys but I think my only alternative now if to RA it.

Cheers.

[Spankin Partier]

I think you're right in having to either RA it or have XFX send you a new BIOS chip as AMD Fanatic suggested. You see your problem is the BIOS chip contains a program that tells the computer how to start up and read from your hard drive, CD-ROM, and floppy drives. So if this program gets messed up while upgrading, you're pretty much stuck. And I'm pretty sure thats what happened here

Unlike most software, you should only upgrade the BIOS if you absolutely need to. Always double/triple check that the new BIOS is the correct BIOS for your board. And if possible, use a UPS (battery back-up), to power your computer to protect the upgrade from the remote chance of a power-failure during the process.

[UncleBob]

I have an EVGA 790i and the BIOS is the same, as they all come from Nvidia, perhaps I can hotflash a chip and send it to you? PM me if you are interested.

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[AMD Fanatic]

I have an EVGA 790i and the BIOS is the same, as they all come from Nvidia, perhaps I can hotflash a chip and send it to you? PM me if you are interested.

Very generous offer!!!

Good one UB..

[UncleBob]

It's a shot...