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- Apr 17, 2017
Hey guys, got a doozie of a problem here!
Had a problem with the BIOS on my brother's PC
CPU: I7-4790K
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC (V1.0)
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance Pro (DDR3)
GPU: NVidia GTX-970
PSU: XTR-650 (650W modular)
-Functioning for >1 year without problems
-Had a "Boot Failure Detected" issue (apparently fairly common with this mobo)
-Issue would ONLY crop up if the computer was shut down - if it was restarted it was fine.
-As a result - when it was shut down at night - this crash would occur in the morning - it would go to the OS - crash (restart) > display boot failure detected - and then boot to OS quite happily (since it was restarted)
So I (the big bro) was called in to try and look at it: it was suggested that this error is fairly common with this mobo, so I took their advice and upped the frequency and voltage on the RAM slightly (to match the specs of the RAM provided)
This didn't seem to fix it - so we tried to update the bios - and that is where all hell broke loose.
We downloaded the new bios, imaged it and... splat: no luck - switched over to the backup BIOS - booted - it shut down and - splat... it's corrupt too.
So - now when we start the PC we get nothing - black screens / no input - and I suspect no BIOS!
I've had a good google - but not came across nothing too useful! The pinned thread on this forum suggested using a floppy - but this PC doesn't have a floppy drive - (and would I be correct in saying that without BIOS the USB won't work anyway?)
Any suggestions? The poor bro is suffering! So much so he's considering getting a cheap MOBO until he can afford a good one :O (he does all his studying and university work on his PC - as well as 99% of his recreation! It's a hard-worked PC!)
Many thanks folks!
Had a problem with the BIOS on my brother's PC
CPU: I7-4790K
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC (V1.0)
RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x 8GB) PC2400 CL11 Vengeance Pro (DDR3)
GPU: NVidia GTX-970
PSU: XTR-650 (650W modular)
-Functioning for >1 year without problems
-Had a "Boot Failure Detected" issue (apparently fairly common with this mobo)
-Issue would ONLY crop up if the computer was shut down - if it was restarted it was fine.
-As a result - when it was shut down at night - this crash would occur in the morning - it would go to the OS - crash (restart) > display boot failure detected - and then boot to OS quite happily (since it was restarted)
So I (the big bro) was called in to try and look at it: it was suggested that this error is fairly common with this mobo, so I took their advice and upped the frequency and voltage on the RAM slightly (to match the specs of the RAM provided)
This didn't seem to fix it - so we tried to update the bios - and that is where all hell broke loose.
We downloaded the new bios, imaged it and... splat: no luck - switched over to the backup BIOS - booted - it shut down and - splat... it's corrupt too.
So - now when we start the PC we get nothing - black screens / no input - and I suspect no BIOS!
I've had a good google - but not came across nothing too useful! The pinned thread on this forum suggested using a floppy - but this PC doesn't have a floppy drive - (and would I be correct in saying that without BIOS the USB won't work anyway?)
Any suggestions? The poor bro is suffering! So much so he's considering getting a cheap MOBO until he can afford a good one :O (he does all his studying and university work on his PC - as well as 99% of his recreation! It's a hard-worked PC!)
Many thanks folks!
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