Hi, So, currently having some issue with my motherboard. Getting a code 15 at boot and boot loop. The LED indicator also switches between code 36 and 32, but all these codes are "Normal"-operating codes and not error codes according to the manual. The issue is, if i flip the switch to the backup bios, everything works fine, well to a extent.. the computer feels abit "jittering/Stuttering" using Windows, but might not be relevant at all. Might just me beeing paranoid, if something is wrong i always assume everything is wrong and would be obsessed with the smallest hickups Anyway, I want to force a reflash of the main bios. One suggested on Tweaktown that you could boot up QFlash or ESFlash with the backup BIOS and flip the switch with the computer on and reflash the main bios. I don't know if this is a walid method or would work at all. There where no comments on the thread i found. Anyone have any experience with Gigabyte and DualBios that know how to force reflash of the main bios? Would like to test this before i RMA the motherboard. Regards Steppzor Daniel.
I had alot of gigabyte boards if you have a unstable bios or want to restore backup bios you can do it in this order: shut your pc down then hold power button until pc starts and shuts down again then press press the power button again and it should load the backup bios. you can also try shut down pc hold power button like 10 seconds then release power button pc will boot and restore backup bios. also best way to flash it is just put a bios file on a fat32 formatted usb driver and load it up in the bios and flash it from there i think its called qflash in bios. oh and good luck oh and to assure you i did alot of bios flashes on gigabyte boards with qflash really nothing to be afraid of never had any issues on my side
Thanks for the reply, not affraid to flash the bios using Qflash or other flashig tool The qestion was about a method on another forum that i was somewhat skeptical about. My understanding if using dualbios and the main bios fails to post or is corrupt it would automatically switch to the backup bios and flash it back to the main bios. This does not happen. I will just be stuck in a bootloop when switched to the main bios. I'm also unable to use Qflash or ESFlash while using Main bios. The method mentioned on the other forum is; start the computer using the backup bios and flip the switch to main bios while the computer is powered on and then use qlfash to flash the bios.. will it then flash the main bios? And is this a safe method? for me it does not sound like a good idea to switch the bios while powered on. The reason i ask is that really never had any need to fix a dualbios before and there were no comments on the thread for his method.
I had this happen on my board too. I fixed it by removing all RAM and CMOS battery, resetting the CMOS, and then installing the battery and a single stick of ram in the closest slot to the CPU. then I flashed it via USB QFLASH, shut down and reinstalled the rest of my RAM. This was the last thing I had tried after several hours of messing with it. The key was flashing with only one stick of RAM.
Thanks, when i think about it, i actually managed to get it booted by removing one or two sticks of ram yesterday and manged to get it booted after plaving them back in, but it failed after a reboot again. Don't know why it did not occure to me to reflash the bios with only one or two sticks :/ Will try when i get back home again thanks.
it is absolutly safe http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...-Forcing-backup-BIOS-on-Gigabyte-motherboards Method #1: 1. Shut your PC down (if you're reading this guide, than your PC isn't working anyways) 2. Hold the power button until the PC starts and shuts down again 3. Press the power button again, your backup BIOS should kick in now and should re-flash the main BIOS if there's anything wrong with it. Method #2: 1. Shut your PC down 2. Hold the power AND the reset button for about 10 sec, than release. 3. Backup BIOS should kick in anytime soon now. Method #3: Had to use this one in order to get my 990FXA-D3 working again. Backup BIOS kicked in using method #2, but I was back to the good ol' no signal state once the procedure finished.. 1. Short out pins 1 and 6 on the main BIOS chip (pin #1 should be marked with a red dot or whatever) 2. Tell a friend (or a relative) of yours to press the power on button 3. Remove the ghetto-like jumper you're holding between pins 1 and 6 as soon as you hear a beep. 4. Backup BIOS should kick in again and everything will (hopefully) be fine. I did it countless times on my x79 gigabyte boards and some other gigabyte boards.
Cool, thanks. Will look into #3 if relfashing with one stick of ram does not work. #1 and #2 does not work. It never initilize the backup bios automatically. It just a endless reboot loop.
Ah thats really bad for you i would reset cmos take out battery wait like 10 minutes and try again.Never had that issue with a gigabyte board.
Computer back up and running with the main bios. Don't know why, did not make any changes. Got home, powered it on and was welcomed with a "Overclock" failed message on the screen. (No OC is ever been done on this build...yet ) Anyway, seems to be working just fine. Did a couple of rounds of CS and a a hour in Rome: Son of Ryse. No issues.
I think the overclock failed message appears if the BIOS has to restore some default or use compatibility settings to boot (so it assumes you tried a failed overclock, had this happen to me too with earlier mobos). It seems to me your issue may be RAM related, did you enable memory XMP profile or tweak timings in your main BIOS? Try clearing the CMOS, that should reset your main BIOS to default.
No oveclocking have been done CMOS have been tried cleared several times RAM working fine, computer have no issues running with the backup bios Using XMP profiles yes.
I reflashed the main bios last night and was running fine til i shut down the computer. Have not powered it on yet today to see if it boot. Will check that when i get home from work later. I'm leaning for RMA either way. Experience tells me that when something starts to fail, it's not long before other things starting to fail also, but will wait until January.
