The following occurred late one night as a result of a poor decision (or two) ...
I attempted to use the Asus windows based utility to update the bios on a H170m Plus motherboard. I downloaded what I thought was the correct .cap file from the Asus site.
The utility accepted the .cap file and rebooted into the bios and it a appeared to be programming the new bios onto the chip. Progress complete. Reboot, but now it wants to read the .cap file again, however when i eventually find it using the bios's file manager, it wont accept it... I remember some how restarting the process and getting the same message over and over. I look in the manual, put in the Asus recovery disk find the bios on it and try that, it initially appears to program it in, then a reboot and same thing happens - it wants to see the file again and again restarts with the same result, over and over again asking to see a file it wont accept. This is where, out of frustration, I made my fatal mistake when I decided to restart the computer by resetting it.
Now the machine will do nothing but spin up the fans and the dvd drive, there is no display, no beep codes and no response from the keyboard and no light under the mouse. However the machine remained powered up, fans running.
I subsequently received a replacement BIOS chip, put it in, but didn't work either, the symptoms this time the fans spin up briefly as does the dvd drive then it abruptly stops and restarts, over and over again.
I have tried everything: clearing CMOS, removing the battery, stripping out every non essential component (including, graphics card, hard disks, one and both of the memory chips).
So what do you folks think? Have I wrecked the motherboard (probably) the processor or the memory or all three? Or could it be something else?
I attempted to use the Asus windows based utility to update the bios on a H170m Plus motherboard. I downloaded what I thought was the correct .cap file from the Asus site.
The utility accepted the .cap file and rebooted into the bios and it a appeared to be programming the new bios onto the chip. Progress complete. Reboot, but now it wants to read the .cap file again, however when i eventually find it using the bios's file manager, it wont accept it... I remember some how restarting the process and getting the same message over and over. I look in the manual, put in the Asus recovery disk find the bios on it and try that, it initially appears to program it in, then a reboot and same thing happens - it wants to see the file again and again restarts with the same result, over and over again asking to see a file it wont accept. This is where, out of frustration, I made my fatal mistake when I decided to restart the computer by resetting it.
Now the machine will do nothing but spin up the fans and the dvd drive, there is no display, no beep codes and no response from the keyboard and no light under the mouse. However the machine remained powered up, fans running.
I subsequently received a replacement BIOS chip, put it in, but didn't work either, the symptoms this time the fans spin up briefly as does the dvd drive then it abruptly stops and restarts, over and over again.
I have tried everything: clearing CMOS, removing the battery, stripping out every non essential component (including, graphics card, hard disks, one and both of the memory chips).
So what do you folks think? Have I wrecked the motherboard (probably) the processor or the memory or all three? Or could it be something else?