K7VZA Mainboard problems!!!!

[UberSlacker]

Ok, I have a ECS K7VZA Mainboard. I flashed it with nearly no problems. Well it updated pretty good (from windows) with the flash utility. Then when it rebooted, i could hear/see it thinking really hard. Then nothing. So we had to hold down the power button for a couple seconds to power off. Well after we powered it off, we could not turn it back on!!! Everything would come up. The cd-rom would spin up, the hard drive would spin up, all the fans would come one. But there would be nothing on the monitor. I had a Geforce 2 mx400 (agp)installed. It worked fine 5 minutes before. So then I got out my old Voodoo 3 3000 (pci) and put that in, and still nothing was displayed on the screen. I even tried using the clear cmos jumpers (jumper 1). That did not work.

How can I fix this???? What is wrong????? I cant get into bios, as nothing at all is displayed on the monitor. Does anybody have any idea how this can be fixed???

Thank you for any help!!!!

 

[Mulga]

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but you are probably in deep doo doo as far as that mobo is concerned. When a flash goes wrong there is generally nothing you can do except replace the BIOS chip which usually ends up costing as much or more as replacing the whole board.
It is usually not a good idea to try and do a flash from Windows, should always be done from a DOS boot disk All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[Accessdabbler]

NEVER flash a BIOS from Windows!!!

If you read the instructions you would have seen that you should boot to "Safe Mode Command Prompt", preferably from a boot disk.

You can try pulling out the motherboard battery for ten minutes (some motherboards have capacitors that keep the CMOS charged briefly after the battery is removed).

 

[UberSlacker]

But what if it tells you that you are suppost to do it from windows?? This is exactly how I did it:

http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/winFlash.html

And that is exactly what I was suppost to use, for that motherboard. Is the motherboard still basically toast??

Thx

 

[Accessdabbler]

First you have to be sure you used the right BIOS. That website showed a PCB 1.0 and PCB 3.0 version.

Your only option is probably to replace the BIOS chip (or get a new mobo). Try sending a nasty email to the company that made the board, they may have a solution for you.

 

[Mulga]

That WinFlash is a new one on me, I would be very dubious about it even if we had not heard what happened to UberSlacker. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.