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December 19, 2009 6:29:55 AM

I was working with my old machine with a biostar micro 775 945 GC mobo and i decided to upgrade the bios
I download qthe flash utility , closed all aplication and flashed the new update bios
The i restarted the pc and got a bios error followed by a sucession of insanly fast bips :( 
What´s the solution to this since my mobo costs around 40 euros and i can´t pay much for repairs...
Is there a "household" way of flashing the bios back in without using and eprom programmer?

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December 19, 2009 11:33:31 AM

bump :/ 
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December 19, 2009 5:43:50 PM

I had success ordering a replacement BIOS chip from Bad Flash. ~$40 USD

I found your mobo's website Biostar 945GC-M4 7.x. I couldn't find any BIOS update there.

If you cannot buy another BIOS chip, or pay a technician to reflash your chip. You may be able to hot-flash your existing BIOS chip. Your BIOS chip appears removable, as shown in the manual and the webpage illustration. "Borrow" the working BIOS chip from an identical board, then:

-- Disconnect all power to the board, ground yourself, discharge the board by removing the battery, wait 5-10 minutes.

-- Remove your bad BIOS chip, put fishing line behind the good chip (both ends of the fishing line extending 2-4" from the chip), insert the chip into the socket.

-- Replace the battery, connect power to the board.

-- Turn on the machine, and let it boot to the operating system.

-- Using the fishing line you placed behind the good chip, carefully pull the good BIOS chip from the mobo.

-- Aligning the bad BIOS chip to the board's BIOS socket, carefully insert the bad BIOS chip into the socket.

-- Let the machine a few minutes, then shut down the machine.

-- Restart the machine to make sure your BIOS EPROM was re-programmed from the good chip (if not, do it all again).

-- Return the "borrowed" chip to its owner.

It's kind of intimating, but I had to do it to my DFI board after I had a bad flash, and it worked. Good Luck!

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