AsRock P67 Pro3 Bootlooping

naysayer9 · Dec 3, 2014

Hello there, I've seen many similar threads, but didn't really find a solution to my problem.
I messed up a big time. I've upgraded my BIOS to 3.20 WITHOUT installing Intel drivers for that version. No idea what to do now, PC keeps boot looping and I can't find any instant flash drivers to downgrade bios.
Specs are:
i5-2500k
goodram 4gb ddr3 1333
msi r 280x
wd caviar blue 500gb
ocz 5502 psu
Is there anything I can possibly do there without throwing my mobo to the trashcan?

alexoiu · Dec 3, 2014

Hi, You can order a BIOS chip from ebay, flashed with whatever version you want and replace the board's one.

junkeymonkey · Dec 3, 2014

flashing the bios has nothing to do with drivers I mean if I got a board I can flash with out any hard drive installed you seem to have another issue with that

junkeymonkey · Dec 3, 2014

I assume its looping to get in to windows but you can still enter the bios ?? your hard drive may of been set up for ahci and when you flashed the bios it gets set to all defult settings and now the hard drive may be set to ide and this will cause the looping

naysayer9 · Dec 4, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Unfortunately, no, it was in ide mode before and it is now. Yes, I can enter bios

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

well that's what I was looking at you say you can enter and sit in the bios with out issues but when it goes to the hard drive to boot into windows it loops now see what key you need to tap to force it to load safe mode to see if it will boot to that

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-computer-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7

naysayer9 · Dec 4, 2014

junkeymonkey :

It doesn't boot in safe mode either... AsRock support mailed me instant flash version of 2.0 bios, but when I try to flash it it says that image is not detected when it should be, because usb stick is in fat32 already

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

that I don't know I got asrock boards but never had to flash them ...

now if it was a zip file the download file must be unzipped and the result copied to the USB flash drive

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

I was wondering bout this and found tis guy with what I was thinking may of also went wrong as like yours ???

Well, I tried resetting the CMOS. Something went wrong, BOOTMGR stopped working, I troubleshooted it all night online before the conclusion was made that Windows had to be reinstalled. System Restore would not work, and neither would loading the backup image I have created automatically every week, so I don't know what the point of setting a backup was. Didn't work when I needed it.

The BIOS are still 1.50. That never got fixed. It never found the image and I never got the chance to try and update the BIOS.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/53146-x79-extreme6-cant-flash-bios-no-image-file-detected.html

naysayer9 · Dec 4, 2014

Resetting CMOS never really did anything, usb stick is seen by bios. They emailed me unzipped P67P32.00 file.
I'm trying liveusb linux right now but no idea if it'll help solving this

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

like I was heading above about the looping part is this in the end

''BOOTMGR stopped working, or got corrupted in some way ??? and as that guy said above it came down to a reinstall of windows to repair it

naysayer9 · Dec 4, 2014

I don't get any messages about BOOTMGR, I'm getting bsod but it goes away so quickly there's no way I can read any single line of it

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

your not, its just going to loop cause its bad if its the case

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2278794

naysayer9 · Dec 4, 2014

ok, I guess that'll be that, cause linux booted from usb stick works. I'm thinking if I can recover any data from my hdd using linux before I reinstall windows?

junkeymonkey · Dec 4, 2014

don't see why not-- a few builds back I had this go on and it took a clean reinstall of windows -- what I do see is guys that use the bios flash tool that's not the usb stick way [manually] ???? mine did this but not due to flashing never figured out what the deal was on it but a reinstall fixed it [asus] also look this up to find you some info I do see lots of this with the use of a ssd ????

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