Gigabyte ultra durable bios setup plus#

But at least I can fool around with the bios setup now. Maybe I'll start a new thread for that if I can't figure it out. I'm not out of the woods yet usb and networking still aren't working. Hopefully this thread may help someone else with a similar problem in the future. And thanks to the other people who chipped in advise as well.

Gigabyte ultra durable bios setup plus#

I wasted over a month on this, RMAing both the motherboard and CPU. Just download and save a new BIOS file (rename to gigabyte.bin) on the USB flash drive, then press the dedicated Q-Flash Plus button and you’re good to go START SULFURIZATION PROTECTION Sulfur compounds in the air can penetrate tiny onboard resistors creating chemical change and causing these resistors to open or short.

In any case, it's a pretty outrageous bug-Gigabyte really NEEDS to have a warning/option in VGA mode to the effect that the bios setup gui may not work with hdmi, or with some cards.pretty much ANYTHING rather than just silently fail. I'm totally flummoxed at this point.Ĭlick to expand.Triple6, I must admit I was skeptical, since the hdmi output was working when the OS booted.but I tried using a vga monitor rather than my hdmi one.and you were exactly right!!! Now I see the gigabyte splash screen and can access the bios setup menu! The menu is gui/graphical, and presumably it just doesn't support hdmi, or possibly just not for my video card. But after I did that the board was even worse, it not only would not get to the bios setup menu, it wouldn't boot anymore.Īny help would be greatly appreciated. Last time, I tried resetting the CMOS as directed by Gigabyte (by connecting a jumper). What's even more odd is that I had this same problem previously, RMA'd the motherboard to Newegg, got a new one, and I'm having the same identical problem.Īnyone have an idea what the heck is going on here? It seems to me like there is something wrong with the motherboard. I've removed all hardware except the bare minimum, booting with only video card, monitor, memory, cpu, and DVD (to boot from). I have two memory sticks, and I've tried it with both, and with each alone. I've tried this with two different power supplies, two different cpus.

If I try hitting delete or F2 while booting up to try to go to the bios setup menu, it will instead go the a blank blue frozen screen and need to be hard reset. So the bios is there, just not the bios setup menu. It WILL boot my operating system successfully, though no USB or network devices work and I see some various hardware-like errors in the logs. It does NOT show the Gigabyte start-up splash screen, or give me any chance to get to the bios setup menu as it usually would. When I turn on the machine, the screen shows a blinking cursor for a few seconds, then sounds a single, normal beep then the screen goes just black for a few seconds then it attempts to boot. I have a new motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3, Rev 3.0, with an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor.