Gigabyte Motherboard BIOS Restore/Repair
If your Gigabyte Motherboard BIOS becomes corrupt or damaged, and the board has a "Dual BIOS", you can use one of the methods below to restore/switch from your damaged/corrupted BIOS over to the other/working BIOS.
Method 1:
- Shut off your computer
- Hold the power button until your computer starts and shuts down again
- Press the power button again, your backup BIOS might now be loaded and the system may POST.
Method 2:
- Shut off your computer
- Hold power AND the reset button for about 10 sec, then release.
- If this method works, your system will now boot into the backup BIOS now.
Method 3:
Only use this method if nothing else has worked!!! You could potentially permanently damage your motherboard when attempting this last method!- Make sure you have a speaker built into your motherboard, or you have one attached to your motherboard's front panel connection header.
- You can short out pins 1 and 6 on the main BIOS chip by attaching a jumper to both pins (Pin #1 of the chip should be marked with a dot).
- As you short the pins, press the power button while you are still holding the jumper on the pins. You might want to have a friend help with this process so you don't accidentally short any other pins on the BIOS chip.
- Remove the jumper you're holding between pins 1 and 6 when you hear the POST beep.
- The backup BIOS should now be loaded and the system should POST.
Once you get the system up and running again, re-flash the other BIOS so you have yet another, alternative working BIOS.
