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Mike75
3 Dec 2006, 1:02pm
Hi there!
This is my first post, and i start with a "emergency"...
I was doing a rotine software upgrade on my pc, and when i got to the gpu things started to go wrong.
I updated the vga tools from gigabyte and then went on to update the bios - as I did previous with other boards. I backed up the old bios and then flashed the new from gigabyte - then the all hell broke loose! During the flashing procedure the pc rebooted - without any notice - and from then on my gpu doesnīt work!
I tried to reflash with the backup bios but it doesn't work, and I'm now stuck with a onboard graphics from intel...

To initial flash i used the gigabyte vga tool from windows - and i used also to make the bakcup - but, since i don't have any image to restart the computer i canīt use it to reflash, so i used the ati tool flash utility to flash from dos, but it doesnīt work! The gigabyte utility also doesnīt work!

The ati flash utility reports that "write fail", and the gigabyte utility simply hangs and does nothing!

I don't know if this is related to the fact that the backed up image was created in windows environment by other gigabyte utility....

Put in simple words: I donīt know what to do!

Please help!

Thanks

Mike75
3 Dec 2006, 4:31pm
Just had enough of this computer! After hours of internet surfing couldn't find a single answer for my x1600 bios problem, and, to worsen the things I've just discovered that my theater 550 pro is also sufering from the same problem: no bios! I know that this thread is for emergency situations, and, even that my computer boots, it is pretty much useless in this condition...

If someone has a clue for what the hell happened to cause this situation, please feel free to share. At this precise moment I'm pretty much stunned with this....

Just another request: if there is any powercolor pro 550 theather owner out there please give me a copy of the bios.

Thanks