You can recover it. BIOS Recovery AMI BIOS AMI has an embedded recovery technique in the 'boot block' of the BIOS. In the event that the BIOS becomes corrupt the boot block can be used to restore the BIOS to a working state. The routine is called when the 'system block' of the BIOS is empty or corrupt. The restore routine when called will access the floppy drive (1.44Mb floppy disk drive) looking for a file named AMIBOOT.ROM. This is the reason the floppy drive light comes on and the drive appears to be in use. If the file (AMIBOOT.ROM) is found it is loaded into the 'system block' of the BIOS to replace the corrupted information. To restore your BIOS copy the most recent version of your motherboards BIOS file to a floppy diskette and rename it AMIBOOT.ROM. The diskette does not need to be bootable or contain a flash utility. It will access the floppy from 2-5 minutes the system will beep four times. Remove the floppy diskette from the drive and reboot the computer. if when you turn on the system it does not try to access the floppy, press and hold the 'CTRL' and 'HOME' keys at the same time. This will force the system (assuming the 'boot block' isn't corrupted) to access the flopy and look for the AMIBOOT.ROM file. Step by Step: 1. Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a blank floppy disk. e.g. Rename 12345678.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM 2. Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system 3. If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. Follow insructions on the screen and it will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive. 4. When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk. 5. Restart the computer
Tried that, Unfortunatly the system just accesses the Floppy for 2 seconds then stops beeps and then keeps repeating that every 4 seconds. It's more likely that something went wrong when I flashed the bios, as it went a bit quick. But it looks like I have corrupted the Boot Block
Re Gigabyte M59SLI-5 mod. Following flash and install, all seems to be working perfectly stable and shows as 'activated'. Will report should anything untoward happen during thorough testing but so far so good. Many thanks for that, keep up the good work ( Only minor issue which may be unrelated is that one of the drives attached to the onboard gigabyte sata raid controllers does not show up during boot or in windows. I am certain this is not anything to do with the modded bios though, it happened during an eariler experimental install of Vista with the unaltered bios. Could be inherent glitch in the F7 version perhaps..)
Unfortunatly not, The BIOS is solder on to the board. Ill disconnect it from the mains and remove the cmos battery and wait a couple of days, as strange as it sounds it worked on another Motherboard some years ago, when clearing the cmos didn't fix the problem. if not it will go in the loft with all of the other stuff I keep but wont ever really want again.