BIOS upgrade goes very wrong

[Northen Star]

Hi all,

I Stupidly used the Flash BIOS upgrade on my Abit IP35E motherboard that i purchased from Scan last October to resolve an issue. Ufortunately the system froze at 7% writing to the BIOS. As you can imagine the whole motherboard has had it.

I thankfully have a second PC in the house so have searched the Abit website for maybe some sort of solution as it tries to boot from the 3.5" disk with no luck.

I know you take your life in your hands when doing this sort of thing but I am unsure where to turn to next ?.

Would i be best talking to scan to see if i can RMA it or is the best solution to return the motherboard direct to Abit to try and have the BIOS re-flashed ??.

I had hoped that there would be some type of fail safe for this eventuality. After looking on some other forums about BIOS repair the general feeling was to aviod the Flash Bios Updater as it's too fragile. Bit late for that now

Any help is very much appreciated.

[Agent]

If you can extract the chip out, I can reflash it for you

[Mossy]

Agent

I think you can take the chip out on the Abit motherboards Im sure you can on my Ip35 Pro.

[Northen Star]

Thanks you very much for the offer. I have already e-mailed Abit technical to see if they would offer this service.

I have also located a PLCC Extractor for about £5.50 delivered so will keep you posted.

[Agent]

Agent

I think you can take the chip out on the Abit motherboards Im sure you can on my Ip35 Pro.

Yep, I have never seen a Abit board with a soldered BIOS

[Rob_B]

i never got a response from Abit when the flash on my ip35-e went wrong (thanks again for the offer Agent) contacted Scan & awaiting my replacement board as we speak though!

[Stringent]

Never done a hot swap BIOS flash in my life. I'd be scared!

Sometimes its good to go down the safe route.

[BUFF]

Northen Star recovered the BIOS from the bootblock

[silent]

yes he's all made up now.

he talked me through it. glad my gigabyte board auto flash tool works fine.

[Northen Star]

Never done a hot swap BIOS flash in my life. I'd be scared!

Sometimes its good to go down the safe route.

To help Anyone else in the same situation i have created a self extracting 3.5" image of everything needed to flash the BIOS on an Abit IP35E Motherboard complete with instructions. This saves quite some time believe me..and is very simple saving a lot of time playing with DOS commands


Copy the URL below into a browser and save to desktop then unzip.
http://www.helmet.ukfsn.org/bootblock.zip

[BUFF]

i have created a self extracting 3.5" image of everything needed to flash the BIOS on an Abit IP35E Motherboard complete with instructions.

should also work for IP35 (but not IP35V, IP35P or Pro).

[baronsamadi]

There is another way but it's not easy, you have to keep your pc on while removing and replacing the bios chip with another one