Press to switch between screen fields and use the keys to select the BIOS file and press. Update ROM BOARD: Unknown VER: Unknown DATE: Unknown The BIOS Updater screen appears as below. At the FreeDOS prompt, type bupdater /pc /g and press. So there - I'm posting this answer as it contains the most likely reason and the only repair procedure I could use.Updating the BIOS file To update the BIOS file using BIOS Updater 1. My guess is that when I originally installed the latest BIOS on a very old BIOS, skipping this step, I bricked the whole motherboard. What wasn't apparent before was that one of the BIOS updates was pretty large and required a dual-flashing procedure. As Keltari mentioned in one of the comments in the other answer, doing small increment upgrades on a 'sister PC' (with the same motherboard) worked fine. When I got it back, the note said that 'no repairs were needed, only a new BIOS had to be installed' - I'm guessing the service team has a way to hook up the motherboard to flash a new BIOS directly - possibly via the little removable chip.Īnyway, I also think I know what the reason for this was. The whole motherboard was basically bricked. Unfortunately the CrashFree utility (mentioned by Brian) turned out to be a big bust and was pretty much useless. I'm a bit baffled by the experience - how is this possible? Did I flash the wrong BIOS? If so, don't these systems check if the model is OK and prevent flashing the wrong thing? I'm having things strange feeling where I feel I did something wrong but at the same time feel I did everything right. No beeps, no video signal - only the silent hum of the CPU and PU fans. I even detached the memory sticks to see if the system would complain about that (it should beep in a specific fashion when no memory is in the system). I tried to clear the CMOS, both using regular means as well as popping out the battery and disconnecting all power. Now the system is quiet - the fans would spin, but it's as if the CPU was missing. Pressing enter, the system would proceed to beep wildly with short beeps until I eventually turned the system off (long press of the power button). At the end, a message that a reboot is required appeared with an OK button.Īnd here's where things went sour. The update was going well - the update utility recognized the BIOS file and accepted it.

So I went ahead and downloaded the latest BIOS for this motherboard, and proceeded to install the BIOS during one of the many system restarts needed when setting up a system from scratch.

Since I was formatting my PC I noticed, when downloading network drivers, that the BIOS for my motherboard (ASUS P8H67-M) was changed significantly since last I updated it.

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