pwr cut off during bios update

[iMxmo]

i share a room with my two brothers, they wouldn’t get off their systems so my mum cut off the power to our room via circuit breaker (she does this regularly) but this time i was doing a bios update, how convenient. anyways power goes to components, fans turn on. but no display, will reset cmos now to see what it does

[Somerandomtechyboi]

8 minutes ago, iCypticx said:

i share a room with my two brothers, they wouldn’t get off their systems so my mum cut off the power to our room via circuit breaker (she does this regularly) but this time i was doing a bios update, how convenient. anyways power goes to components, fans turn on. but no display, will reset cmos now to see what it does

Tell her to buy a new motherboard, you break it, you fix it

[iMxmo]

11 minutes ago, iCypticx said:

i share a room with my two brothers, they wouldn’t get off their systems so my mum cut off the power to our room via circuit breaker (she does this regularly) but this time i was doing a bios update, how convenient. anyways power goes to components, fans turn on. but no display, will reset cmos now to see what it does

specs are as follows: 

2600X

B450 Steel Legend

Ballistix 3200C16 

Crucial P1 1Tb

Amp 550w

rest shouldn’t matter 

[iMxmo]

cmos reset didn’t do anything, not like i expected that to work anyways. going to use brothers a320 mobo to see if cpu is still functional, wish me luck.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

14 minutes ago, iCypticx said:

cmos reset didn’t do anything, not like i expected that to work anyways. going to use brothers a320 mobo to see if cpu is still functional, wish me luck.

cpu is fine, your mom bricked your motherboard.

Im supprised that she didnt break something sooner, hdds and some other commponets really dont like force shutdowns

 

There are a couple ways to fix this. Either, A: make your mom get a bios flasher clip and a arduino, or B: Make your mom get you a new board.

[CommanderAlex]

42 minutes ago, iCypticx said:

i share a room with my two brothers, they wouldn’t get off their systems so my mum cut off the power to our room via circuit breaker (she does this regularly) but this time i was doing a bios update, how convenient. anyways power goes to components, fans turn on. but no display, will reset cmos now to see what it does

I think it would have been more convenient to inform your mom that you cannot cut the power as, "I'm in the middle of updating my computer and it's critical the power does NOT go out"... 

 

You're SOLed, she bricked the motherboard when she cut the power during a BIOS flash. Time to get a new motherboard. 

[iMxmo]

3 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

cpu is fine, your mom bricked your motherboard.

Im supprised that she didnt break something sooner, hdds and some other commponets really dont like force shutdowns

 

There are a couple ways to fix this. Either, A: make your mom get a bios flasher clip and a arduino, or B: Make your mom get you a new board.

> surprised she didn’t break something sooner

honestly me too, these circuit breakers power offs really took a toll on my P1’s drive health and knowing that my brothers systems also went through that…yikes. i’m partially to blame, i should have told her i was doing something important. i’ll look into the arduino solution. also will contact asrock or amazon to see what they can do. thank you 

[iMxmo]

1 minute ago, SpiderMan said:

I think it would have been more convenient to inform your mom that you cannot cut the power as, "I'm in the middle of updating my computer and it's critical the power does NOT go out"... 

 

You're SOLed, she bricked the motherboard when she cut the power during a BIOS flash. Time to get a new motherboard. 

yea i’m partially to blame, but hey how was i supposed to know my mom would decide to cut the power to my room with the circuit breaker hah

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Bios flashing on non dip packange bios chips can be a pain in the ass if you are using a clip or desoldering and resoldering it, my decade old p5q is easily moddable cause it has a dip package bios chip and i can just take it out, put it on my bios programmer (ch341a) and flash whatever bios for testing or just experimenting.

 

Ive only found that msi neo bios partially wirks

[iMxmo]

9 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Bios flashing on non dip packange bios chips can be a pain in the ass if you are using a clip or desoldering and resoldering it, my decade old p5q is easily moddable cause it has a dip package bios chip and i can just take it out, put it on my bios programmer (ch341a) and flash whatever bios for testing or just experimenting.

 

Ive only found that msi neo bios partially wirks

well i certainly don’t have a soldering station at home, but about that arduino/raspberry pi flashrom that was mentioned here

 

20 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

 

There are a couple ways to fix this. Either, A: make your mom get a bios flasher clip and a arduino, or B: Make your mom get you a new board.

would i just need some research on how to use these tools for my case and i should be fine right? i did some googling and found this video of a guy doing a bios flash via raspberry pi and using the wires onto a SPI header from his mobo. would that work for my case? 

youtube video i was referring to

[Middcore]

I believe there are BIOS flashing tools that can clamp on to the BIOS chip on your board without desoldering it, depending on where the chip is. Not sure if they're any less reliable than the ones that require the chip to be removed though.