I have a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-P3 (DualBios, flashed years ago to UEFI) with i5-2500k with 8GB DDR3. With multitasking, my memory would run low, so I bought another 8GB on ebay (Ballistix sport) from a reputable buyer to complement my 8GB g.skill ripjaws, to hold me off for another year or so before I would buy a new computer. Old and new RAM are both DDR3-1333 with identical timings (though obviously better to have same manufacturer, etc).
After installing the RAM though, my computer failed to POST, no beep even, just a black screen. Eventually I rebooted and it went to the "Corrupt BIOS" screen and BIOS was restored from backup BIOS (the process appeared to complete and the progress bar went to the end) and it rebooted.
This got me back to the regular restored BIOS, but subsequently it complained of no boot device found. Now on reboot, it doesn't even beep and display is totally blank, and it just reboots. Occasionally it shows a brief splash screen and progresses to a blue UEFI screen (looks similar to repair screen), but it loops again fruitlessly. Of course, I've removed the RAM and have tried with known good RAM, and even without any RAM at all, or any drives. Still no beeps, pressing on keyboard doesn't help, etc. I can't even flash a new BIOS from USB, because it doesn't even get to that point.
I have tried all I can to trigger repeat repair from backup BIOS (removing CMOS battery, shorting CLR_CMOS pins, holding down power while switching on PSU multiple times, holding down power and reset x10 secs, shorting pins 1&6 of the m_BIOS chip during reboot), to no avail.
Am I out of options? Is backup BIOS gone too? I googled and saw I could buy the BIOS chip, but it doesn't look to be an easy soldering job at all.
After installing the RAM though, my computer failed to POST, no beep even, just a black screen. Eventually I rebooted and it went to the "Corrupt BIOS" screen and BIOS was restored from backup BIOS (the process appeared to complete and the progress bar went to the end) and it rebooted.
This got me back to the regular restored BIOS, but subsequently it complained of no boot device found. Now on reboot, it doesn't even beep and display is totally blank, and it just reboots. Occasionally it shows a brief splash screen and progresses to a blue UEFI screen (looks similar to repair screen), but it loops again fruitlessly. Of course, I've removed the RAM and have tried with known good RAM, and even without any RAM at all, or any drives. Still no beeps, pressing on keyboard doesn't help, etc. I can't even flash a new BIOS from USB, because it doesn't even get to that point.
I have tried all I can to trigger repeat repair from backup BIOS (removing CMOS battery, shorting CLR_CMOS pins, holding down power while switching on PSU multiple times, holding down power and reset x10 secs, shorting pins 1&6 of the m_BIOS chip during reboot), to no avail.
Am I out of options? Is backup BIOS gone too? I googled and saw I could buy the BIOS chip, but it doesn't look to be an easy soldering job at all.
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