BIOS FLASH Gone bad - IC7-G - New BIOS Chip

Thanks in advance to this group of techies.

My Buddy flashed his Abit IC7-G that was running great with a P4 3.2,
1 Gig of Kingston, WD Sata, GF4 128 AGP, Plextor DVD burner, 450 Watt
PC Power and Cooling PS. After what appeared to be a successful
flash, he rebooed and Nothing. No video. Powers up the CPU fan,
Chipset Fan, hard drive hits and then just sits there. We assumed he
messed up the BIOS chip, so we ordered a new one from Abit, GUESS
what, SAME THING........
..
I have read this group from top to bottom.

Taken MB out of case
Swapped Memory
Swapped CPU
Swapped Video
Delete Key, Insert Key, Battery out, Disconnect PS, Checked all
connections,
Replaced PS with new 550w
Tried a PCI Video Card
Changed Monitors
Taken all cards out and disconnet HD, Rom, except Video.
Moved memory around, tried one slot, tried Dual Channel arrangement
Even took out BIOS chip and reseated it and put the old one back in.
No bad burn marks on PS connections, No visible capacito bubbles or
marks, No smell.

Just don't understand that everything was working great and now
nothing. Looking for additional suggestions or help.
xp user

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:39:57 -0400, XP User wrote:

> Thanks in advance to this group of techies.
>
> My Buddy flashed his Abit IC7-G that was running great with a P4 3.2,
> 1 Gig of Kingston, WD Sata, GF4 128 AGP, Plextor DVD burner, 450 Watt
> PC Power and Cooling PS. After what appeared to be a successful
> flash, he rebooed and Nothing. No video. Powers up the CPU fan,
> Chipset Fan, hard drive hits and then just sits there. We assumed he
> messed up the BIOS chip, so we ordered a new one from Abit, GUESS
> what, SAME THING........
> .
> I have read this group from top to bottom.
>
> Taken MB out of case
> Swapped Memory
> Swapped CPU
> Swapped Video
> Delete Key, Insert Key, Battery out, Disconnect PS, Checked all
> connections,
> Replaced PS with new 550w
> Tried a PCI Video Card
> Changed Monitors
> Taken all cards out and disconnet HD, Rom, except Video.
> Moved memory around, tried one slot, tried Dual Channel arrangement
> Even took out BIOS chip and reseated it and put the old one back in.
> No bad burn marks on PS connections, No visible capacito bubbles or
> marks, No smell.
>
> Just don't understand that everything was working great and now
> nothing. Looking for additional suggestions or help.
> xp user

Try a live portable executable like Knoppix.
You didn't say, but did you flash from Windows?

Download the Knoppix ISO, burn it to CD, then boot up with it first
in boot order. Now your system will run from a live OS running from the
CD, without depending on WinXP or the drive it was installed on.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/

--
Mark

"Mark Pryor" <> wrote in message
news:4726c22d$0$32470$...
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:39:57 -0400, XP User wrote:
>
>> Thanks in advance to this group of techies.
>>
>> My Buddy flashed his Abit IC7-G that was running great with a P4 3.2,
>> 1 Gig of Kingston, WD Sata, GF4 128 AGP, Plextor DVD burner, 450 Watt
>> PC Power and Cooling PS. After what appeared to be a successful
>> flash, he rebooed and Nothing. No video. Powers up the CPU fan,
>> Chipset Fan, hard drive hits and then just sits there. We assumed he
>> messed up the BIOS chip, so we ordered a new one from Abit, GUESS
>> what, SAME THING........
>> .
>> I have read this group from top to bottom.
>>
>> Taken MB out of case
>> Swapped Memory
>> Swapped CPU
>> Swapped Video
>> Delete Key, Insert Key, Battery out, Disconnect PS, Checked all
>> connections,
>> Replaced PS with new 550w
>> Tried a PCI Video Card
>> Changed Monitors
>> Taken all cards out and disconnet HD, Rom, except Video.
>> Moved memory around, tried one slot, tried Dual Channel arrangement
>> Even took out BIOS chip and reseated it and put the old one back in.
>> No bad burn marks on PS connections, No visible capacito bubbles or
>> marks, No smell.
>>
>> Just don't understand that everything was working great and now
>> nothing. Looking for additional suggestions or help.
>> xp user
>
> Try a live portable executable like Knoppix.
> You didn't say, but did you flash from Windows?
>
> Download the Knoppix ISO, burn it to CD, then boot up with it first
> in boot order. Now your system will run from a live OS running from the
> CD, without depending on WinXP or the drive it was installed on.
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/
>
> --
> Mark

How is knoppix meant to work if the machine doesn't POST, or can a linux
distro resurrect dead machines now?

@OP
The PSU may need a HDD connected to make it turn on. Some PSUs require a
load before they deliver power.

Was it the same BIOS you flashed with that died before?

It's been a while since I've flashed an Abit board, does it have a "rescue"
option, where you place a different BIOS on a floppy or CDROM, then as the
machine boots if it detects a bad BIOS it will search for another on
removeable media.

Someone posted a message before about the flashing 2 boards with the same
BIOS and it killed them both, can't recall if it was abit or not.

Apart form clearing the CMOS and making sure the jumpers are set correctly
it sounds like you've tried everything else.

Thanks guys.

With no Video or nothing coming up on the screen, I am unable to try
the first suggestion.
..

It was flashed from Dos with a floppy disk and the only option you had
was to save your old .rom etc. I am assuming the one we ordered
was the latest version BIOS ( they state it would be ) so there you
go.

I just this week took out the BIOS chip and reseated it to no evail
and even put the old one back in and still no post. Even tried a
couple of other CPU's and some additional mem and video cards.

It appears something has killed a part or power cap. or something.
Just a shame. It is out of warrenty and I don't have a clue who
could repair it. I am still open to suggestions. Thanks once
again.

XP User


On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:39:57 -0400, XP User <> wrote:

>
>Thanks in advance to this group of techies.
>
>My Buddy flashed his Abit IC7-G that was running great with a P4 3.2,
>1 Gig of Kingston, WD Sata, GF4 128 AGP, Plextor DVD burner, 450 Watt
>PC Power and Cooling PS. After what appeared to be a successful
>flash, he rebooed and Nothing. No video. Powers up the CPU fan,
>Chipset Fan, hard drive hits and then just sits there. We assumed he
>messed up the BIOS chip, so we ordered a new one from Abit, GUESS
>what, SAME THING........
>.
>I have read this group from top to bottom.
>
>Taken MB out of case
>Swapped Memory
>Swapped CPU
>Swapped Video
>Delete Key, Insert Key, Battery out, Disconnect PS, Checked all
>connections,
>Replaced PS with new 550w
>Tried a PCI Video Card
>Changed Monitors
>Taken all cards out and disconnet HD, Rom, except Video.
>Moved memory around, tried one slot, tried Dual Channel arrangement
>Even took out BIOS chip and reseated it and put the old one back in.
>No bad burn marks on PS connections, No visible capacito bubbles or
>marks, No smell.
>
>Just don't understand that everything was working great and now
>nothing. Looking for additional suggestions or help.
>xp user

XP,

> It appears something has killed a part or power cap. *or something.
> Just a shame. **It is out of warrenty and I don't have a clue who
> could repair it. *******I am still open to suggestions.

http://www.badcaps.net/
--

Jim Lilly
Using - Virtual Access(OLR), ZASS 7.0
http://www.virtual-access.org
6.01 build 1 Windows XP Service Pack 2 build 2600

Great pointer. This is a Abit board and apparently they are prone to
the badcap situation. I also have three or four other boards that
I might just give them a shot. Thanks again for the lead.





On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:00:20 CDT, Jim <jamlil@comcastcom> wrote:

>XP,
>
>> It appears something has killed a part or power cap. *or something.
>> Just a shame. **It is out of warrenty and I don't have a clue who
>> could repair it. *******I am still open to suggestions.
>
>http://www.badcaps.net/