Hello all:
I built a new PC with an Intel G965WH motherboard and after installing Windows Ultimate 64 bit on two 500 GB hard drives in RAID 0 everything was running great. All the programs I loaded worked fine and the pc booted up much faster than my 32 Bit Vista pc. The problem is, I wanted to change the processor to a Q6600 quad-core cpu and that required a bios version 1699 or higher. Well...........I downloaded the latest Intel bios for my board and after turning off AVG anti-virus, Window Defender, Windows Firewall and any other running programs I started the bios update and it flashed the update and ended with a message not to turn off or power down the pc for the next 3 minutes and the screen went black as it usually does for a bios flash. After that the pc never re-started and I only get a black screen when I turn it on. At this point I thot I would use a recovery bios and re-flash the board with that. Big problem! I downloaded several bios recovery bios on two different machines and when I click to install them to floppy or cd a message pops up saying Windows cannot open this file.....please choose what software to use to open the file. This is on an XP pc and on a Vista Home Premium pc. I have made recovery disks before flashing my pcs several times and never this message. What the heck is going on? Did Window update install something causing this or is it a problem with Intel's downloads? I doubt it's Intel because I tried the most recent and 4 other versions of bios recovery and they all display the same message? I'm lost now......I have a great new pc that worked fine until the bios update and now it's useless? Anyone have a suggest on how to re-flash the bios when they won't even open on my pcs to make a floppy or cd? I looked into making an ISO cd but my social security will run out before I am smart enought to make a bootable ISO cd. Help LOL
I built a new PC with an Intel G965WH motherboard and after installing Windows Ultimate 64 bit on two 500 GB hard drives in RAID 0 everything was running great. All the programs I loaded worked fine and the pc booted up much faster than my 32 Bit Vista pc. The problem is, I wanted to change the processor to a Q6600 quad-core cpu and that required a bios version 1699 or higher. Well...........I downloaded the latest Intel bios for my board and after turning off AVG anti-virus, Window Defender, Windows Firewall and any other running programs I started the bios update and it flashed the update and ended with a message not to turn off or power down the pc for the next 3 minutes and the screen went black as it usually does for a bios flash. After that the pc never re-started and I only get a black screen when I turn it on. At this point I thot I would use a recovery bios and re-flash the board with that. Big problem! I downloaded several bios recovery bios on two different machines and when I click to install them to floppy or cd a message pops up saying Windows cannot open this file.....please choose what software to use to open the file. This is on an XP pc and on a Vista Home Premium pc. I have made recovery disks before flashing my pcs several times and never this message. What the heck is going on? Did Window update install something causing this or is it a problem with Intel's downloads? I doubt it's Intel because I tried the most recent and 4 other versions of bios recovery and they all display the same message? I'm lost now......I have a great new pc that worked fine until the bios update and now it's useless? Anyone have a suggest on how to re-flash the bios when they won't even open on my pcs to make a floppy or cd? I looked into making an ISO cd but my social security will run out before I am smart enought to make a bootable ISO cd. Help LOL