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post #31 of 74
8/21/12 at 7:18am
Hey chrisraybell,
I'm sorry to hear that it didn't work.

Where did you get your chip from?
What is the bios version that you asked them to flash?
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post #32 of 74
8/21/12 at 1:03pm
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I got the chip from the bios depot; through eBay. I never asked for a specific flash version; don't really give a **** which version I have at this point; I just want this $300 motherboard to work and not be a dust collector. In any case as stated before I'm going to order a chip straight from asus. When I called support about the chip not working that I bought and he was pretty damn sure it's just not the right dip chip; or however he put it. At any rate he said that it will likely fix my problem getting a chip from them; and he also said RMAing my board wouldn't do any good and it rpbably still wouldn't work after RMA because right now it's just the bios chip causing it to have issues.
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post #33 of 74
8/21/12 at 4:25pm
Did you check if the brand and the code in the chip was exactly the same as the original one?
I think it should be Winbond W25Q64BVAIG.

Is it written in the chip that bios depot sent you?
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post #34 of 74
8/23/12 at 9:12am
Your flash chips are OK, people, it CAP files problem.
There is 2 Kb header that must be removed from CAP file before flashing to BIOS-chip.
Use hex editor to remove bytes 0x000 - 0x7FF from CAP file, then save modified file as bios.bin and flash it with hardware SPI-programmer or using another board on X79/Z68/ZZ with "hotswap" method.
If you need hotswap instruction, tell me, i'll post it here.
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post #35 of 74
8/25/12 at 11:17am
Wonderful news!!!

I managed to revive my pc!
I bought 2 pre-programmed bios chips from ebay:

Chip 1 - bios 2002 (did not work, I think the 2kb header of cap file had to be removed for it to work).
chrisraybell, with this chip my computer presented exactly the same problem as yours the turn on/ turn off loop problem.

Chip 2 - bios 1203 Worked Perfectly!!!

chrisraybell, I am pretty sure that if you buy a chip with bios 1203 your board will work too!

Thank you guys very much.
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post #36 of 74
8/26/12 at 11:05pm
rlandersen, good to listen it.
Please tell that EBay chip vendor the correct way of flashing CAP-files, so they can do it properly and have less returns.
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post #37 of 74
8/27/12 at 9:45am
CodeRush,

I told him about the 2kB header that should be removed. Thank you very much.
Maybe I will order a programmer later if I want to flash bios again.

(Now I have two unused chips, the original one and the one that was not properly flashed with 2002.cap).
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post #38 of 74
8/27/12 at 10:11am
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Glad you got it fixed thumb.gif I was thinking..did you try booting with just the support cd in the dvd player?
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post #39 of 74
8/27/12 at 10:38am
No I did not. The screen was completely blank when the computer was turned on before. I dont think it was able to read anything.

The only way something started to appear on the screen was replacing the chip.
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8/27/12 at 8:47pm
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I was thinking..did you try booting with just the support cd in the dvd player?
I also want to know whether this method can/will work or not. Too bad OP didn't test it.
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No I did not. The screen was completely blank when the computer was turned on before. I dont think it was able to read anything.
The only way something started to appear on the screen was replacing the chip.
If the above procedure (restore BIOS using support DVD disc) really programmed/built/exist in this motherboard, it will definitely put computer in restore/recovery/emergency mode when it detect the DVD. The monitor will not show anything of course because recovery will work in background. Too bad you didn't test this procedure though. Anyway, glad you get your motherboard working again. Next time, only update BIOS if the current BIOS is not stable or causing problem. Otherwise, no need to update BIOS every time there is new update.
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