bios update gone wrong

[Yashai26]

hey guys so i got my hands on 2 old 1155 boards wanted to build up into budget gaming rigs

they both came with i3s in which i had i5 upgrades for (tested at sellers home)
(from 2nd gen i3s to 3rd gen i5s)

they both didnt want to post with the i5s in ,just fan spin no display they probably had like the first bios version in so i thought a update would of solved the issue ,so the first one i flashed the bios using the utility off the

offical site that ran in cmd under windows..was a success but no change on bios version so i thought a restart would do , but it went to a blue screen with error unaccessible boot device upon restart and automatic repair

failed so i thought maybe the update corrupted windows ,but while installing windows it stopped displaying ,,fans kept spinning ,and ever since no display from that board

the second board i flashed from the bios menu with the built in flashtool also was a success ,and it said its needs to restart as is completed but upon restart the cpu fan barely moves a few inches and nothing happens

..and every few seconds it will loop that few inches and thats it

and these were with the i3s back in which they were fully working with and regret flashing the bios and rather would of had some dual core gaming

i did try clear cmos (possibilty i could of been doing it wrong )

i also checked the cpu socket pins and rest of my testing components..all good

i did do some deep research and seen so guys having success in replacing the chip and making some weird gadgets and manually reflashing the bios in which i dont want to spend any more money if this is end of the road for those mobos plus i already sunk alot of money in already as i have everything else to build these machines !!!

any help? hoping someone knows a trick on two

 

[necris]

Alright, welcome to my nightmare. Are these msi boards by any chance?
1155 especially h61 and h67 are painfully difficult. I wiped my h67 bios pretty similarly.
No post, just power cycles.
I minimized the system as far as possible .
I was able to make a bootable flash with a much older bios using rufus create a freedos bootable and load firmware from there. This got me into bios again.
Then that wiped ahci / sata which killed boot order. I eventually booted into hbcd pe 64 and ran a windows updater to get to a more current release.

Try going back a bios version or two, some are just dodgy

Don't Frisbee them, worst case @ScorpioMan86 can sort you out.
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[Yashai26]

ones a msi h61m-p31//w8 ms-7788 ver1.0
other a lenovo cih61mi v1.1

 

[Yashai26]

is there a site that you followed those steps from thats abit detailed like how you flashed the firmware etc

 

[Greekking]

Lenovo boards are usually flashed or coded to work with specific parts only. A weird thing they do ...

 

[Yashai26]

crap , im not worried about getting them to work with the i5s just want to see as boot logo again and just stick to the i3s

 

[necris]

is there a site that you followed those steps from thats abit detailed like how you flashed the firmware etc

How to Update Your Motherboard BIOS Using a Simple USB Stick | GeForce

Attention DIY PC Mechanics! It’s time to update that motherboard BIOS and today in the GeForce Garage we show how to get it done on virtually any motherboard using a simple USB Stick!

www.geforce.co.uk

looks like msi have pulled all the docs of their website for some reason, but thats pretty close

 

[necris]

crap , im not worried about getting them to work with the i5s just want to see as boot logo again and just stick to the i3s

same man, got 8gb of ram and an I5 waiting and my h6 just wont post stable with them under any bios, actually running second latest bios on my 67 due to stability issues i had

 

[aiccc]

a rasp pi can be used to flash some board's frmware.

goto win-raid forum.

 

[Yashai26]

@necris THANKS im going to give it a try

 

[Yashai26]

@necris was there any keys you pressed to get to the dos menu ? i had made a freedos usb,put the bios files in it , but theres no dos menu coming up on the bricked mobo ,and the one power cycles like within a second that i dont think if it gets to regconise the keyboard, the manual said delete , i tried all the f keys as well and esc

 

[necris]

pretty sure i reset cmos(would put usb bootable as first boot dev) and it just booted into it.
second time around i used F11 for boot menu i think.
the key was to use the older bios , not the exe version, needs the actual files and ad****whatever.exe updater

 

[Yashai26]

how exactly you reset cmos i tried few ways off google but they dont seem to work ,because the one board came with a bios password which after clearing cmos should of been removed but its still there and it says there some dual bios on it

and how to get the actual files ? i downloaded the first version bios available which is still an .exe file

 

[Supreme]

Regarding the first board - It could be that the newer bios you flashed has CSM support disabled by default and your GPU might not have a UEFI bios. What GPU are you using?

 

[Yashai26]

@Supreme no gpus,was using onboard graphics

 

[necris]

how exactly you reset cmos i tried few ways off google but they dont seem to work ,because the one board came with a bios password which after clearing cmos should of been removed but its still there and it says there some dual bios on it

and how to get the actual files ? i downloaded the first version bios available which is still an .exe file

for the h61? all the msi zip files i downloaded now from the site were zip files , txt, exe and bios file

 

[Yashai26]

yes extracted the zip ,theres a txt file ,application and some 300 file

 

[Supreme]

@Supreme no gpus,was using onboard graphics

Well there goes my theory xD

 

[rinners]

I currently have an MSI board that I need to flash and pretty sure I can do it via the JSPI1 header. Do your boards have this?

 

[Yashai26]

yes it does ,

 

[necris]

I currently have an MSI board that I need to flash and pretty sure I can do it via the JSPI1 header. Do your boards have this?

thats it, i completely forgot about that step in my panic fixing. nail on the head, thats why it booted straight into flash without F11.
give this man a bells

 

[Yashai26]

so what you do with this header?

 

[rinners]

thats it, i completely forgot about that step in my panic fixing. nail on the head, thats why it booted straight into flash without F11.
give this man a bells

You lost me. On my board the CPU LED doesn't go off, so I can't get into nothing. Pretty sure there is no USB flash back on the B150 hence:

so what you do with this header?

It's not straight forward. You need a SPI programmer piece of hardware and the software to load the bios on. I am just trying to get the pinouts, then I'll let you know if I was successful.