Hey everyone, have been using a Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2 board with Intel e7200 for the past couple of months. I was using the F1 bios, which worked fine, but with the release of a new bios (F2), I decided to change to that (opened up some functionality with DES). I flashed the bios with Qflash and everyone seemed to work fine. I changed the bios settings to optimized defaults and it booted up into XP. Once everything was up I noticed it was trying to install new hardware. It seems that it caused my Realtek ALC888 audio chip to not be recognized (worked fine in the past). I installed new drivers and it worked but would not work with 5.1.
So I decided to flash back to the original bios (F1). I downloaded it off the site, restarted went into Qflash, flashed the bios with the F1 bios. The progress bar finished and said "Bios was flashed successfully". I restarted the computer and the display didn't work. All the fans spin up and it sounds like the CDROM is reading different bootable cds I put in but there is no display. There are no beeps and the lights on the memory sticks indicate it is not using any memory. I tried clearing the CMOS, taking out the battery and waiting 24 hours but still nothing. I am hoping someone here can help.
I have tried using the onboard video, my 8600gt card, an old TI4200 and none of them will give me a display. I hope there is someway to get this fixed without having to go through an RMA process.
Here are my specs
Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2 (rev. 1)
Intel e7200
2gb (2x1gb) Crucial Ballistix Tracer
SATA 500gb WD Green drive
SATA Liteon Burner
Nvidia 8600gt
So I decided to flash back to the original bios (F1). I downloaded it off the site, restarted went into Qflash, flashed the bios with the F1 bios. The progress bar finished and said "Bios was flashed successfully". I restarted the computer and the display didn't work. All the fans spin up and it sounds like the CDROM is reading different bootable cds I put in but there is no display. There are no beeps and the lights on the memory sticks indicate it is not using any memory. I tried clearing the CMOS, taking out the battery and waiting 24 hours but still nothing. I am hoping someone here can help.
I have tried using the onboard video, my 8600gt card, an old TI4200 and none of them will give me a display. I hope there is someway to get this fixed without having to go through an RMA process.
Here are my specs
Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2 (rev. 1)
Intel e7200
2gb (2x1gb) Crucial Ballistix Tracer
SATA 500gb WD Green drive
SATA Liteon Burner
Nvidia 8600gt