I think I hosed the bios

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Hi, thanks for your response. The motherboard is: EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1. The bios that I tried to use was: NF78_P10.iso I don't know what the previous bios was since I don't have a record of it. When I try to boot, I get continuous short beeps and the following on the screen:

"Award Bootblock BIOS V1.0
BIOS ROM checksum error
Keyboard error or no keyboard present

Detecting floppy drive A media...
Drive A Error. System halt"

After that, I plugged in a PS2 keyboard and it was the same except the keyboard error message was not present.

What do you think???
Thanks, Jim

P.S. Of course there is no floppy drive present.


 
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Thanks. For some reason, it's not recognising the USB keyboard. That's why I used the PS2 keyboard.

Are you suggesting that I do a reset from the mobo jumper pins? I can easily do that, since I have a downloaded PDF of the manual and have already scoped out the location.

 
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Sorry for the delay. I did the CMOS jumper thing and it made no difference, so I removed the CMOS battery for about 8 hours and replaced it with a fresh battery, but still no difference.

What next???

Thanks, Jim
 
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No problem with mentioning ebay.

I'm not sure it's as bad as the op thinks, getting to the point that it is asking for a keyboard is not a sign of a bad flash imo.
 
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Which leaves me slightly stumped, although this has prompted me to think more. Lets treat it like a first boot that isn't working, and ignore the bios update.

So remove everything but the CPU and 1 stick of RAM, and see what happens.
 
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If he was updating the system. i assume it was working before it um.....wasn't. Apparently that board is still on the first bios. V1.0 would indicate that. P02.bin would be V2.0 and so on. As shown on the bios page.

http://www.evga.com/support/download/showdlinfo.aspx?id=409&type=N&acctype=BIOS&accversion=P10&part_number=132-CK-NF78

So what you tried to do was drop the 10th bios on a motherboard that only had the first version.

There is a very good chance that you did not follow the instructions on how to put a bios on a usb stick. It is not like now when all you have to do if make sure the usb is fat32 and the put the rom on it. Then of course flash it.

Did you use the instructions on this page?

https://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=15265&high

Anyway if your friend still wants to use that old setup you can get the replacement bios chip here.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIOS-Chip-EVGA-nForce-780i-SLI-132-CK-NF78-A1-780I-/380141408395

 
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Hi all, thanks for all the help.

13thmonkey, I tried to do a bare bones boot, but it gave the same results.

urbancamper, My friend wants to keep it original so I decided to buy that eBay chip that you linked to.

I'll let you know when it arrives.

Cheerio, Jim

P.S. urbancamper, you would be correct if you bet that I didn't read the procedures. I'm a retired professional... I don't have to read that crap, that's for amateurs.
 
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Ok Mr Profesional, if you say so. I guess that's why you used my advice and went to the site I gave you, and bought a new bios chip.

Glad it worked out for you.

 
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