Posible Bios death help

[Intron]

Was flashing the bios on my Abit NF7-S V2 When the lovely dodgy power round here triped out half way through the operation.

Now im asumeing that means a dead bios i cant really afford spending money on a new Motherboard but looks like i might have too.

The machine doesntboot up any more turn on and the monitor doesnt come on and it just sits there humming away. im asumeing its well dead then. Is there a place or way to get a new Bios chip from say the manufactor or suplier.
or any other ideas of save this board i dont fancy ahveing to spend another loads of cash on a new board :(.

Any help or advice.

or ideas on a new board for a AMD chip

[SylverFyre]

there is a way to fix it but it requires having a duplicate rom chip anyway and "hot swapping" them out with the machine running, which is well dodgy anyway but u risk just losing the new/borrowed chip. with the machine booted u hot swap the roms putting the wiped one back in then reflash it

if u can find a new bios chip u might as well just use that one anyway :)

[Dw2k]

Yeah what SylverFyre said, you need to find someone with an exact same BIOS from an NF7-S to put in yours then boot up, swap the chips, and re-flash.

Tricky tbh, you could try contacting Abit UK, they might send you out a new chip.

[CaptainTrips]

There might be a recovery mode on the motherboard, all isn't lost. On MSI boards, you can recover the bios after a bad flash quite easily. I'd suggest looking on the abit web site for bios recovery procedures, chances are it is possible.

If you can't find any instructions, it won't hurt to try the instructions on the MSI website, seeing as they don't make their own BIOS chips (neither does anyone else). There's instructions for AMI and award BIOS recovery there. You can find them at http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm

If all else fails, and you don't mind ordering from abroad, you can buy a new BIOS chip from here:-

http://www.biosrecovery.com/

[T-Bag]

You can buy new BIOS chips for particular motherboards.

Check the abit site, I know Epox ones cost about £10.

[Jennifer]

Actually theres an easier way. Put the bios onto a disk. Remove the bios chip. Pop into Maplins and hand them both the chip and the disk and ask them to reprogram it.

[CaptainTrips]

I have to say, Jennifer is right. Don't know why i didn't think of that option, and it is probably the cheapest if you really have screwed your BIOS up. :)

RS components once done the same thing for me, many years ago...

[Jennifer]

I thought RS was whole sale only?

[CaptainTrips]

they are, but it helps if you know someone working there ;)

[Intron]

sounds like some good ideas thanks for the help people

Ive already bought a new motherboard since i wanted to see what the Asus a7n8x-delux version was like compared. But i seem to be haveing trouble with the memory i use :/ goona post another thread up about it :) since every one here is so helpfull :D

[Matt]

er, have you tried just resetting the bios via jumpers? I reguarly bugger the bios on my ASUS thing (forgotten the number). Swap a few jumpers, wait 5 seconds, swap them back and its alive again.

Worth a try :-)

[DizMatt]

that's okay Matt if you mess up the memory timings and you need to reset the bios
but if you've messed up the flashing, that's a different matter
quite impressed if you can fix that with a jumper based CMOS reset