- May 23, 2016
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I have now BIOS bricked 2 Motherboards (Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 and a MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX) and have just received a new M5 and didn't want to brick that also.
I have built PC's in the past and initially these both worked well on the initial boot up, I was able to get decent benchmarks and all seemed to be running smoothly. However after shutting down and rebooting, the BIOS on both automatically set themselves to update, both seemed to have gone through the update process and the computer restarts - However this time it does not post, and other than the board lighting up and the fans starting the board is dead. With the Gigabyte board I attempted to boot in the secondary BIOS but that didn't do anything, I also attempted slow boot on the M5 to no avail.
Now that I have a new M5 I wanted to make sure everything was correct, could another component be causing these BIOS updates to fail and effectively bricking the Motherboard? It seems to only happen once I connect the PC to the internet and then it automatically updates as I got the Gigabyte board to boot a few times before connecting the wireless network card. I'm running windows 10 64bit from an M.2 ssd
parts: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gWv6M8
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I have built PC's in the past and initially these both worked well on the initial boot up, I was able to get decent benchmarks and all seemed to be running smoothly. However after shutting down and rebooting, the BIOS on both automatically set themselves to update, both seemed to have gone through the update process and the computer restarts - However this time it does not post, and other than the board lighting up and the fans starting the board is dead. With the Gigabyte board I attempted to boot in the secondary BIOS but that didn't do anything, I also attempted slow boot on the M5 to no avail.
Now that I have a new M5 I wanted to make sure everything was correct, could another component be causing these BIOS updates to fail and effectively bricking the Motherboard? It seems to only happen once I connect the PC to the internet and then it automatically updates as I got the Gigabyte board to boot a few times before connecting the wireless network card. I'm running windows 10 64bit from an M.2 ssd
parts: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gWv6M8
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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