Re: Ruined m-board with bios update

Try a thumb drive, they're cheap!
As far as the OEM license, Microsoft will likely not give you a problem reactivating on a new motherboard. If you get a replacement board with a similar chipset (and hard drive/RAID controller) you may not even have to do a repair install. If you get an identical replacement board you may not even have to reactivate.

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"xiowan" <xiowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BA291C34-DF75-4961-B0F9-7DBD97088E48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi again David B:
Whew..........that was a chore! Disconnected 6 Sata HDs and the IDE HD.
Turned power on & inserted recovery CD. Turned off pc. Turned power back on
and turned on pc; cd drive lite came on but cd didn't update with the
recovery bios! Don't think the bios even tried to copy the file; didn't
hear the sound of a cd spinning. Went ahead and turned off power and
replaced configuration jumper per intel instructions. Re-connected
everything. Black screen......nothing but the power lights for the pc and
drives. No activity on HDs. The download site for intel bios for my
motherboard said to copy the bios recovery to a floppy (if it would fit) or
to a cd. I did both in advance of the original bios update just in case.
When it failed, tried to recover with the recovery floppy. Failed, so I
tried the recovery cd. Failed.'
I have since checked the technical manual for the motherboard and it says
recovery bios can only be used on a sata or ide cd drive or thumb drive!
Floppy bios recovery is not supported for this newish board. Wonder if I
screwed things up using the floppy recovery disk? I don't know why the
motherboard download site for this specific motherboard tells you to use
either floppy or cd when the technical manual specifically states that floppy
recover is not acceptable! What a mess!
I'm probably back to needing a new motherboard I guess. That means I
still don't know the answer to the questions asked about a new O.S. in my
first post lol! Thanks again for your help in any case.

xiowan.........in tucson

"David B." wrote:

As far as the boot order, did you leave the floppy and CD in the order, just
place them after the hard drive? If so unplug the hard drive data cables,
maybe you'll be able to boot from your created recovery discs then.

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"xiowan" <xiowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
> I have a really nice home-built pc with MCE2005 OS and today I > attempted
> to update the bios with the latest Intel update. I have done this > many
> times but this time after the update ran the computer was supposed to
> re-boot
> automatically and I wasn't to touch it for the "next 3 minutes". > Usually
> the
> computer comes back on and the update is installed from the hard drive > to
> the
> bios and then Windows starts and a box pops up saying bios update
> successful.
> Instead, the computer came back on but after 20 minutes I still had
> nothing
> on the display. Well, I turned it off and decided to try a bios > recovery
> floppy I had prepared just in case. Followed all Intel's procedures > and
> it
> didn't work. So, I then tried a bios recovery using a recovery cd I > had
> already prepared. Didn't work either. Black Screen. It may be > because
> a
> few weeks ago I changed the bios boot order and moved the RAID 0 hard
> drives
> to first in boot order to see if it would boot faster. It didn't. I
> should
> have went back and put the cd drive first, floppy second as it was > before
> but I didn't. It appears the motherboard is now useless. I don't mind
> buying a new motherboard but I have the following questions:
> 1. Will I be able to use my current MCE2005 O.S. or have to buy a new
> one?
> (They didn't have a retail version, only the OEM version)
>
> 2. If I can legally use the current OS and am unable to just move
> everything over to the new motherboard and have to re-install the O.S.
> will I
> be able to continue to access the content on all 7 hard drives?
> (a) According to Tom's Hardware site you can move a RAID 0 O.S. > from
> one Intel board to another and it will configure itself automatically. > The
> drivers for the ICH8R and ICH9R are the same I guess.
> (b) If necessary, I thot maybe I could just format the existing > RAID 0
> system partition and re-install MCE2005 on the same partition thus > leaving
> the other partitions and their content intact?
>
> 3. If EULA problems prevent re-use of the current MCE2005 license and > I
> purchase a new MCE2005 or Vista Home Premium license will either or > both
> OS's
> be able to continue to access the content on the other RAID 0 > partitions
> and
> also the other 5 hard drives in the pc?
> (a) If required to buy a new OS, can I buy a full retail Vista > Home
> Premium license and then use it as an upgrade to preserve access to all
> the
> current content? Or will a clean install allow access to all the
> partitions
> on the RAID 0 drives and the other 5 drives? I'm worried about Vista
> denying
> access to the recorded tv programs by saying "content may not be viewed > on
> this pc". This happened once when I moved a tv movie from one pc to
> another
> even though the movie was listed as not copy protected .
>
> I'm sorry to go on at such length, but as you see all these > alternatives
> have me confused.
> I really need to save my 2 terabytes of recorded tv. I spend 3 months > a
> year volunteering for the Forest Service and take the pc along in my RV
> and
> most places I work have electricity but no tv signal. (Mountains and
> forests
> lol). The recorded tv content is a real blessing in the evenings and > on
> rainy days !
>
> Any advice will be appreciated!
>
> xiowan...........in tucson


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