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Topic: My Motherboard died today.

I went to go see The Dark Knight today with my friends( they hadnt seen it), and I come home to a screen saying that my bootsector had a missing or corrupt file.  Insert Windows CD and hit enter. So I did, and nothing happened.  it also had an "esc" to exit button, so i tried that, and still nothing.  CTRL-ALT-Del... nothing.   so I did a hard reboot, and it came up with a screen:

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.


Scanning BIOS Image in Hard Drive...  (and the dots continued on like it was loading something)

Then it beeped, rebooted, and went back to the "Award...."      Screen.  It is now stuck like that at every reboot.
I googled it, and people are having same trouble, with people trying to get them to reflash the bios, but never any success.
I even took it as far as putting the HD into this computer, loading the flashing info, and then send it back... still nothing.

I'm ready to buy another motherboard to replace Gigabyte's GA-EP35-DS3L.

So i'm interested in your thoughts about this (as well as a proper replacement motherboard If I have to go that route)
Thanks.

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Re: My Motherboard died today.

If it's merely the problem of the BIOS being corrupted, you can just contact the manufacturer and ask them to send you a proper BIOS. You have to be sure it's not other things related to your mobo though.

A while ago I had my BIOS flashed incorrectly and messed it up such that I couldn't boot, and my mobo's manufacturer (Biostar) sent me a proper BIOS chipset within a week of me asking. I popped it in and problem solved.

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Re: My Motherboard died today.

Yeah, this bios is soldered onto the board >_<  I'm gonna try to contact Gigabyte about it on Monday.   ... Maybe tomorrow.
Also note: I never messed with the bios.  It flashed itself I guess.  I had nothing to do with it.  I just reformatted to get rid of my BsoD problem (didnt want to deal with it), and all I had going on that computer was WoW and Firefox.  absolutely nothing!
makes me upset -_-

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