Gollum, zort, Sorry for the late reply. I flashed the bios via Q-flash form an USB drive. The strange thing is, that the board does react to soft-off (4 seconds power button pressed), but I don't know if the bios is controlling that... Can you explain me how to "give it a 12v signal via the start button" ?
Hi Polyphemus, Thanks for letting us know the flash method. Qflash is better than from Windows, but DOS is still the best. You'd have to ask gollum about applying the 12v, but his situation was different from yours. I think your bios got corrupted while flashing somehow. I think he applied 12v to the power switch to get it to power on the first time but that probably wasn't related to the mod itself but something about the state of the board after the flash process. Since yours is turning on but not getting anywhere I think the BIOS didn't get flashed correctly on your mb. Sorry you had this problem. Hopefully once it is fixed one of the two mods will work for you! zort
Hello Polyphemus! Unfortunately there is nothing special about that 12v signal. I should have said that i pressed the power butten once or twice, that had made things more clear i guess. i was just using the term "12v Signal" because i believe that it was what helped the board to start after the flash - it just needed a short wake-up pulse. Usually, when you hit ESC to restart after a flash from Qflash the boards restart by themselves. Mine didn't right away, so i just hit the power butten once or twice and it came back online. Hitting the Power button as you do when you start your pc initiates a short 12v Signal on the boards. Thats called "INIT" and happens even in Mobile Phones, with a different voltage though. Its the normal process of starting an electronic device. In this case its a 12v Signal (so nothing mystrious about it, sorry). It then gave me some cmos checksum bullsh** because it had not reset CMOS by itself as it actually should have and after clearing cmos manually it just started normal. so all that happened was some hiccup with the flashing or not even that but rather some hiccup while the cmos was cleared. I'm really sorry to hear that you messed up your board. Asus has a revovery procedure where you can insert the original driver cd and hit some keys on yur keyboard and then the board reads an emergency bios from the disk. i suppose that gigabyte has something very similar, they have "Virtual Dual Bios" on that board but they don't explain how it works. I believe though that they have a boot-routine in the BIOS Chip which never gets flashed. So, if you encounter a bad flash, the boot-routine is still there and enables you to read some emergency bios from some source. it says that the BIOS Chip is 8Mbit big, but the BIOS File itself is only half of that size, so i believe there is an emergency bios on-chip. how to access it? i believe that should have happened automatically. But maybe, maybe, virtual dual bios also means you can access some sort of drive. have you tried to insert the original driver disk, then start the pc again? maybe with holding shift key or F1 or something like this? Or have you maybe written a support request to technical support at gigabyte? they certainly explain how you recover a virtual dual bios board. i have read some stuff about virtual dual bios back in the past but cannot fully remember what it said. i only remember that i thought back then that gigabyte try to save money by saving one bios chip and implementing a routine just like asus has. i thought that that was a bad idea and that the GA routine is very similar to the Asus routine. so i suppose you put in a floppy with a good bios or the original disk and try to boot somehow. AND: contact GA support!!
Thank You for your Help I find the right way to restore my bios. I post this for all peaple who have any provblem with this board. For the ASUS Board which have a AMI Bios you must remane the right bios whith the model number of your board for esemple for this board is M3A78T.ROM. I hope that 911medic help me to mod 0701 bios for my ASUS M3A78-T Best Regards CrazyKouzu
Very sorry about that - looks like these boards do not like a SSV2 mod. I will let Medic handle this. Glad you were able to recover. I double checked the mod bios and it is correct. Did you shut off power and clear CMOS AFTER the flash before re-starting. Sometimes Asus boards after a flash will appear dead until you clear CMOS and shut power to the board. Please confirm that you did this.
I am not sure what to make of this..Intermittent Explosive Disorder is a B*&ch.. Have a bit more respect,man..I know for a fact he didn't post the mod to wreck your board. We will take it under advisement