BIOS hangs after flashing

Head · Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:37 pm

Hi...

my first posting is directly a Problem...

I updated the bios of a Gigabyte 686BX, with ther right Bios and flashing utility. The Process was o.k. but now, the bios doesnt boot anymore.

The BIOS hangs...nothing works (keyboard) after the drive-detection.
When i'm fast enough, i can press the "setup-key" and see that he recognize it. But nothing happens..

"entering setup" and thats it...

Any ideas ?

I removed all cards, drives, changed graka an ram, tried to clear cmos...nothing helps...

thx..

Head

Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:51 am

Sounds like bad memory or an overheating CPU to me. It may also be badcaps syndrome http://www.badcaps.net

Head · Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:54 pm

no, cpu, caps and anything else seems to be o.k....

I changed everything, RAM, CPU, Drives....so i can exclude those things...

Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:19 am

power supply? have you tried the original bios?

Head · Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:59 pm

I cant flash back to the right bios. The board doenst boot...so flashing is impossible...

An the bios chip has 40 pins, so i cant use another board...

Puwer Supply is o.k. ( 2 tested)

Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:06 pm

The GA-6BXC should have a standard 32-pin Flashrom, I never heard of the Intel 40-pin Flashroms been used on anything newer than i440LX.

Are you sure you really have a BXC? I had several of them in revisions from 1.x to 2.x and not a single of them had a 40-pin flashrom.

Head · Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:27 pm

o.k., a little mistake...its the Gigabyte 686BX without C...