Hi Thorsten, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:47:12AM +0100, tho....@gmx.de wrote: > [if this is off-topic here, please feel free to ignore/delete this message] > > I accidently flashed my Gigabyte GA-M57-SLI-S4 Rev. 1 with a corrupted BIOS > file. The board does not boot anymore, just a black screen, no beeps, simply > dead. > > I would be glad if I could save the money for a new board so I've got the > following question: > > If I do the hardware-mod as shown in > <http://private.vlsi.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/st/> and can obtain a > programmed flash rom with a valid BIOS inside, would it be possible to > "reanimate" the board again? Would it be neccessary to remove the original > Flash-BIOS or can leave it (permanently switched off) on the board?
If you do that modification, you'll have a switch or jumper to toggle between your 2 chips. If the second one has a good image, this should work. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <w...@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator Join us in Cambridge for LibrePlanet, March 19th-21st! http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010 -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
