Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5: Bad BIOSes, No Post, Out of Warranty, Trying to Fix

I'm in a bit of a jam and was hoping to get some advice.

Yesterday I went to reboot my computer and was greeted by a BIOS corrupted message. It said it was restoring from the backup BIOS, but it was frozen at 0% with no progress for close to half an hour. I tried to reboot and was greeted with the same message and it started restoring right away, but this time the progress bar went to 47% and froze. Another reboot later and now I'm stuck with a motherboard that doesn't post and continuously reboots trying to switch between BIOSes. And to add insult to injury, the manufacturer warranty expired July 31st.

I started researching ways to restore a corrupt BIOS and came across a few suggestions online. There are clips you can use to clip on to a soldered chip and flash it with a EEPROM flashing hardware. Does anyone have experience with this? Would this work in my situation? I don't have the funds for a professional repair or replacement and I don't think I can de-solder and re-solder a new chip in its place.

Here are examples of the clip and the EEPROM flasher:

SOIC Clip
EEPROM Flashing Hardware

I would be using the flashrom utility with the BIOS downloaded from Gigabyte's support site

Why don't you contact Gigabyte support via phone and explain the situation. I'm sure the cost to reflash/replace the bios with them would be minimal outside of the shipping costs.

BEst would be to grab a bios chip for your specific board. 15/20 bucks, no hassle, 100% working:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIOS-CHIP-GIGABYTE-G1-Sniper-Z5-rev-1-1-/401015200546

Edit: I think any electronic repair shop can remove nd solder te chip for very little money.

Dude, its August 2nd. I would contact Giga NOW and see what they will do for you. If not, THEN I would start looking for BIOS chips, etc.

Thanks for the advice guys. I spoke with Gigabyte and they offer out of warranty BIOS flashing for $15 plus shipping both ways. Not too bad considering.

Their support site is rather confusing. I ran the board's serial number to see if it was indeed out of warranty and it turns out it's still covered. I forgot that I had it replaced about 6 months after purchase using an in-store product replacement plan. But when I filled out the repair request form it said that it was out of warranty...

Oh well, we'll see what they say. $15 is a lot cheaper than I was expecting.

Sounds good. Keep us posted!

Yep, it seems you are sorted!

Did the RMA form validate the Serial number you entered?