Trying to find F8 BX2000 BIOS
I mistakenly flashed F9 into both the backup and main Dual BIOS chips. My system crashes with BIOS errors frequently. I'd like to put an older version of the BIOS in both places but I can't find an older BIOS to flash. I checked the Wayback Machine for old Gigabyte archived sites but no luck. Does anyone know where I can get BIOS F8 (or any older BIOS version) for the BX2000?
TIA Tom L |
Trying to find F8 BX2000 BIOS
Thomas Lake wrote:
I mistakenly flashed F9 into both the backup and main Dual BIOS chips. My system crashes with BIOS errors frequently. I'd like to put an older version of the BIOS in both places but I can't find an older BIOS to flash. I checked the Wayback Machine for old Gigabyte archived sites but no luck. Does anyone know where I can get BIOS F8 (or any older BIOS version) for the BX2000? TIA Tom L Like you, I couldn't seem to make any headway with archive.org. This is as close as I could get, sweeping the net. http://drivers.mydrivers.com/drivers/42_17062.htm http://file2.mydrivers.com/board/bx2000_f8.zip The file inside there is 256KB and is BX2000P.F8 ******* Have you tried writing to Gigabyte Support, and see if they can dig up the older one there ? They'll probably give you some story about "out of support" etc. The other thing you could look for, is if Gigabyte has an official forum, and try there for a pointer. I don't like taking "untraceable" files from the Internet like the one above. As it's really a crapshoot as to what is in there. With a hex editor, you could do some comparisons to your F9 file and see if they're structurally similar. My favorite hex editor today is HxD. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ ******* When loading the F9 BIOS, did you try "load setup defaults" ? The internal CMOS storage can change from one BIOS revision to the next, and starting with a fresh clean CMOS RAM content sometimes helps. Paul |
Trying to find F8 BX2000 BIOS
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 11:24:44 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
Thomas Lake wrote: I mistakenly flashed F9 into both the backup and main Dual BIOS chips. My system crashes with BIOS errors frequently. I'd like to put an older version of the BIOS in both places but I can't find an older BIOS to flash. I checked the Wayback Machine for old Gigabyte archived sites but no luck. Does anyone know where I can get BIOS F8 (or any older BIOS version) for the BX2000? TIA Tom L Like you, I couldn't seem to make any headway with archive.org. This is as close as I could get, sweeping the net. http://drivers.mydrivers.com/drivers/42_17062.htm http://file2.mydrivers.com/board/bx2000_f8.zip The file inside there is 256KB and is BX2000P.F8 ******* Have you tried writing to Gigabyte Support, and see if they can dig up the older one there ? They'll probably give you some story about "out of support" etc. The other thing you could look for, is if Gigabyte has an official forum, and try there for a pointer. I don't like taking "untraceable" files from the Internet like the one above. As it's really a crapshoot as to what is in there. With a hex editor, you could do some comparisons to your F9 file and see if they're structurally similar. My favorite hex editor today is HxD. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ ******* When loading the F9 BIOS, did you try "load setup defaults" ? The internal CMOS storage can change from one BIOS revision to the next, and starting with a fresh clean CMOS RAM content sometimes helps. Paul Thanks, Paul! I'll try to load one of those older BIOSes in the backup EEPROM and see how that goes but first I'll try loading the defaults and see if that makes a difference. Tom L |
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