BIOS Update Misadventure
So last night I saw there was an update for my MSI K8N Neo Plat so I did the usual IE based Windows BIOS flash.
I knew things were going badly when I saw how slowly it was progressing. With checking, downloading, updating and the restart it usually take 5 minutes at the most but 15 minutes later its still updating.
Finally got to the end of the progress bar and I see the error...
Verify Failed!!
Oh noes!!11 I decided I would kill some processes, restart the winflash application and give it another go. Bad idea.
As soon as I killed Winflash my system rebooted, I'm guessing that’s a 'feature' which is supposed to reboot your system after a successful update but in this case it just managed to brake my machine.
Luckily I have a spare Neo Plat after an odd RMA incident some months ago I've not got around to doing anything with yet so I removed the BIOS chip from there and plugged it in. That’s when the fun really started.
I was getting this long beep followed by no boot of video output. I checked the cable and it was loose so I put that back in and tried again. Same story.
After making sure the BIOS chip was in right I pulled the machine a little closer (its wheeled) to see what was going on. I'd knocked the graphics card a little and it had come slightly out of the AGP slot. Clicked it back into place and booted first time.
I would have made a backup disk but I don’t have a floppy drive in my main machine. I'm planning on making a recovery disk some time this week to see if I can save the chip that failed to update, I will let you know how it goes.
Oh, and removing chips like that with precision screw drivers is quite a scary procedure!
I knew things were going badly when I saw how slowly it was progressing. With checking, downloading, updating and the restart it usually take 5 minutes at the most but 15 minutes later its still updating.
Finally got to the end of the progress bar and I see the error...
Verify Failed!!
Oh noes!!11 I decided I would kill some processes, restart the winflash application and give it another go. Bad idea.
As soon as I killed Winflash my system rebooted, I'm guessing that’s a 'feature' which is supposed to reboot your system after a successful update but in this case it just managed to brake my machine.
Luckily I have a spare Neo Plat after an odd RMA incident some months ago I've not got around to doing anything with yet so I removed the BIOS chip from there and plugged it in. That’s when the fun really started.
I was getting this long beep followed by no boot of video output. I checked the cable and it was loose so I put that back in and tried again. Same story.
After making sure the BIOS chip was in right I pulled the machine a little closer (its wheeled) to see what was going on. I'd knocked the graphics card a little and it had come slightly out of the AGP slot. Clicked it back into place and booted first time.
I would have made a backup disk but I don’t have a floppy drive in my main machine. I'm planning on making a recovery disk some time this week to see if I can save the chip that failed to update, I will let you know how it goes.
Oh, and removing chips like that with precision screw drivers is quite a scary procedure!
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What bios ver. are you using?
I think it was just one of those things...