Noob question: Is it possible to recover bad BIOS?

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sunderstan Total Posts : 34 Joined: 4/19/2009 Status: offline Ribbons: 0 Folding: 0	Reply to message Message Options Noob question: Is it possible to recover bad BIOS? - Friday, November 06, 2009 8:15 AM ( #1 ) As topic...as one of my BIOS was not working since I purchased this P55 FTW E657. The debug LED shows nothing after power up. Will that be possible to use the usable BIOS and back flash the bad BIOS chip?
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Re:Noob question: Is it possible to recover bad BIOS? - Friday, November 06, 2009 8:58 AM ( #2 )

Boot into DOS (or, less-preferably, Windows) and after boot, position the switch at the dead BIOS. Flash as normal. The dead BIOS should now be revived. Shut down, clear CMOS and boot up with the newly flashed BIOS.

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sunderstan Total Posts : 34 Joined: 4/19/2009 Status: offline Ribbons: 0 Folding: 0	Reply to message Message Options Re:Noob question: Is it possible to recover bad BIOS? - Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:28 AM ( #3 ) Got it thanks...But seems something goes wrong when attempting to update BIOS...it stucked at "Erasing NCB....87%" and not going further...too bad I may have a bad chip. Thanks anyway
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