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Big issue here... long story short, I tried to update the BIOS on my mom's computer with an ECS H83H3-I (HDMI) Motherboad and I saw an AMI program tool with a ROM with the BIOS download. I opened it, selected the ROM, and clicked "Flash". It started flashing, then the screen went black. I turned the computer back on, and it started looping to start Windows. So I unplugged the CMOS battery, popped it back in, and nothing. Just nothing. Nothing starts, no fans, screen, anything.

What the hell did I just do? Did I just brick my motherboard?

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Can you still get into the bios? 

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Can you still get into the bios?

No, nothing will even turn on at this point. :(

CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Pro // CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K @4.2GHz // GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Reference // RAM: 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @1333MHz // MOBO: ASUS P8Z77-V LK // SPACE: 240GB Crucial M500 SSD ~ WD Black 1TB // PSU: Corsair CX750M //

CASE: Cooler Master Elite 130 // CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.0GHz // GPU: N/A // RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @1600MHz // MOBO: EVGA Z87 Stinger Mini-ITX // SPACE: OCZ ARC 100 120GB SSD ~ [2X WD Black 2TB in RAID 1] // PSU: EVGA 430W //

 

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No, nothing will even turn on at this point. :(

Yes you just screwed yourself

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Yes you just screwed yourself

Fuck. Well I hated the motherboard anyway, and luckily H81 boards are only like $50

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Fuck. Well I hated the motherboard anyway, and luckily H81 it boards are only like $50

ECS is bull crap imo

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It's funny, I didn't even know you could actually brick motherboards, I always thought removing CMOS always fixed it. Guess I was wrong.

Lesson learned: don't click on BIOS updates without actually knowing what the hell is going to happen.

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CASE: Cooler Master Elite 130 // CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.0GHz // GPU: N/A // RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @1600MHz // MOBO: EVGA Z87 Stinger Mini-ITX // SPACE: OCZ ARC 100 120GB SSD ~ [2X WD Black 2TB in RAID 1] // PSU: EVGA 430W //

 

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Hey look on the good side, hang it on the wall, use it to hold an old cpu, or since it is an ECS board umm try doing something like this;

 

 

But ya h81 boards are dirt cheep such as the H81 ASUS, great little board for the price :)

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Hey look on the good side, hang it on the wall, use it to hold an old cpu, or since it is an ECS board umm try doing something like this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5neUV_NkkYU

But ya h81 boards are dirt cheep such as the H81 ASUS, great little board for the price :)

I'll look into it, thanks :)

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CASE: Cooler Master Elite 130 // CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.0GHz // GPU: N/A // RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @1600MHz // MOBO: EVGA Z87 Stinger Mini-ITX // SPACE: OCZ ARC 100 120GB SSD ~ [2X WD Black 2TB in RAID 1] // PSU: EVGA 430W //

 

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It's funny, I didn't even know you could actually brick motherboards, I always thought removing CMOS always fixed it. Guess I was wrong.

Lesson learned: don't click on BIOS updates without actually knowing what the hell is going to happen.

ECS Has a real bad way of updating/flashing there BIOS on there boards. I can't tell you how many bricked ECS boards we have at work....

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So I unplugged the CMOS battery, popped it back in, and nothing. Just nothing. Nothing starts, no fans, screen, anything.

When you unplugged the CMOS battery, did you toggle the CLR_CMOS jumper on the board? From page 8 in the manual (direct link to PDF, this is the -M version, but should be the same for your -I, I assume):

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Looks like update bios isn't complete yet, could have saved it when it was doing the boot loop instead of powering off.

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Looks like update bios isn't complete yet, could have saved it when it was doing the boot loop instead of powering off.

Sorry for the late reply. Anyway, it was looping for a good 5 minutes, which is why I turned it off. Is there any way you can finish the update?

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CASE: Cooler Master Elite 130 // CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.0GHz // GPU: N/A // RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport @1600MHz // MOBO: EVGA Z87 Stinger Mini-ITX // SPACE: OCZ ARC 100 120GB SSD ~ [2X WD Black 2TB in RAID 1] // PSU: EVGA 430W //

 

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Looks like update bios isn't complete yet, could have saved it when it was doing the boot loop instead of powering off.

 

This.

 

Sorry for the late reply. Anyway, it was looping for a good 5 minutes, which is why I turned it off. Is there any way you can finish the update?

 

When you are flashing the BIOS, you are re-programming the BIOS chip on the motherboard. It gets wiped clean, and re-written with the new BIOS.

It looks like, by turning the system off, you stopped the BIOS flash when it is incomplete. At this point, it seems like the BIOS is corrupted.

 

If you were able to get into the BIOS, you could re-program the BIOS one more time. The problem is, you can no longer get into the BIOS.

 

Unless ECS has a way to recover the BIOS, or the BIOS chip is removable, the motherboard may very well be done...

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Sorry for the late reply. Anyway, it was looping for a good 5 minutes, which is why I turned it off. Is there any way you can finish the update?

Well during the boot loop you still had a chance to save it. But now, probably no, unless it has some unique feature like some asus boards where it can.

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