Gigabyte POST beep loop after @BIOS upgrade

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AImrie

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I have a Gigabyte (ZZ in the model name) motherboard that is about 4-5 years old. I got a new graphics card that was refusing to be detected so after reading online I decided to upgrade the bios using the @BIOS facility to see if this would fix the problem.

Thereafter I cannot boot into Windows, I don't even see the BIOS splash screen. The machine boots and makes a short Beep, does this about 4 times and then remains on but no output to the screen. In between beeps it does not restart as the case lights remain on.

What can I do to fix this?

Thanks
 
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Ilijas Ramic

Ilijas Ramic

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does your motherboard have dual bios if it has it should kick the second bios and if you gpu didnt work there is no point to upgrade the bios because x16 port recognizes every gpu bios flash is only good if you getting a new cpu but the old bios dosent accept it or if you have some real shit problems like voltage or somethng but for gpu there isnt any fixable solutions by upgrading the bios
 
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Ilijas Ramic

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Remove all cards from all slots in your system. Video, RAID, Network, Sound, etc. Pay attention to what card was in what slot.
Put your BIOS disk or USB stick in the drive/slot BEFORE you turn on the power.
Turn on your PC. You should see your recovery BIOS working or it will say something like "bad bios"... something like that. In any case... it should boot up to an A: prompt.
Run your flash utility now and select the option to write your BIOS. I don't remember the option but there's one in there to write the BIOS without ESCD or something. (Its really tough to mess things up worse than they are right now so if one option doesn't work try the other) ;-)
Go through all the prompts saying "Yes write, yes overwrite, etc, etc."
Once the BIOS update is done, reboot your computer. It should be working "normally" right now. If it is turn it OFF and...
Put all the cards you removed in step 1 back into the computer.
Fire it up again... it should work.
 
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AImrie

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Thanks for the comments, in the end it came down to the fact that the GPU that was failing to be recognised did become recognised after the upgrade to the BIOS. After all the beeps the machine remained on and what was happening was the screen output was going to the new GPU which had no monitors connected to it. When I swapped the DVI from old GPU to the new additional GPU the screen came on.

My stupidity, I should have tried all possible monitor output connections. I can't explain the beeping tho, but this seems to have gone away after a few reboot cycles...
 
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