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Intel bios recovery

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Blufx, 2009/03/15.

  1. 2009/03/15
    Blufx

    Blufx Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have an Intel desktop board #D845GRG with a corrupt bios. When I push the power button, I get LEDs, power supply, CPU, and case fans, but nothing after that. No video or hard drive. Searching the Intel site, I found the bios recovery procedure. It starts by telling me to copy the *.bio file to either a CD, USB, or floppy disk, I downloaded the files for the board, but after extracting the zip file, I don't see a .bio file at all. Just a readme file with revisions list, several PDFs explaining the revisions and instructions for what I'm trying to do, and a lot of *.exe files.
    Since this is an older board, I can't get any help from Intel. Does anybody here know what to do?


    Mark
     
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  2. 2009/03/16
    Steve R Jones

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    About the only time a BIOS will get corrupted is during a FLASH. Did you do a Flash?
     
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  4. 2009/03/16
    Blufx

    Blufx Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Nope. It's the wifes machine. One day it didn't want wake up from standby. I shut it down and it has never started since.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    I would suspect a failing power supply wayyyy before I would it being a Bios issue.
     
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    Blufx

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    Thanks Steve,
    I'm going to pull the power supply from 'Ol Sparky and try it her machine. I'll post back in a little while
     
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    Blufx

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    Thanks again Steve,
    The power supply was the problem.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Cool. We love stories with happy endings;)
     
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