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bman_333

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Hello everyone! I am new here..first post.

Well my problem is that when i go into the BIOS setup ('DEL' from the initial startup screen) i cannot change any of the settings such as boot order or enabling or disabling on board lan sound etc..its all in grey scale and i can't brose through it and change it. I don't know what to do...i started doing this awhile ago..

Thanx for any help!
 
There would be two main things to cause the bios setup to be frozen. Depending on age the cr2032 lithium battery could be weak needing a replacement or the bios may have to reflashed with an update if some of the bios programming information has been lost. This could also be caused by a failing bios EProm chip.

The first two are the least costly since a bios update should be available at the manufacturer's support site. The battery only costs a few buxks there. The bios chip itself can run $25 or more.
 
Thanx for the info thus far.

I had looked into gigabytes support web page and downloaded a file to flash my particular motherboard. When i open up the excutable it tells me my chipset is not supported. It further goes on to tell me the Flash part is not supported, and finally to make sure the Flash is not protected. I had consequently downloaded a driver file of some sort for the chipset for my particular motherboard, installed and restarted and tried again with the flash to no avail?

The battery I will give a stab at too though however to see if this can correct the problem although i don't know why my chipset is apparently not supported when i downloaded the file directly from the manufacturer the corresponds directly to my mb.
 
Have you seen any other problems coming up or just the frozen bios screen? When a battery goes you will start to see other problems in Windows. Just booting into Windows and seeing stalls would indicate a weak battery. With only the bios setup screen being effected you may have a corrupted bios. You may want to look over the troubleshooting tips there as well as go over the proceedure for updating the bios seen in the manual.
 
that it says the chipset isnt supported when you run the .exe doesnt supprise me :)
I had the same when i wanted to flash my K8SLI.. ( but then... im running win xp x64).

Anyway,.. you have to format a floppy, and select the option to make it a DOS bootdisk. then you copy the .exe ( together with all other files, wich would be a .bin file i think) onto the floppy, and DONT tough the files wich are already on there :)
There should be a guide about how to flash your bios on the gigabyte site... but its most likely something like a:/Awdflash/ and then the name of the .bin file ( Look if you can find a guide tough )
 
AWDFlash.exe is the Asus tool there. This is why the recommendation was to look over the user's manual was made. That will go into detail for that model board. Hopefully an update of the bios will see that corrected. If the chip itself is going? Gigabyte would certainly have their own utility for this.
 
AWDflash is the tool to flash the bios (Asus does use Award/Phoenix bios's, so does Albatron, and many other brands. ;) )
 
bman_333 said:
Hello everyone! I am new here..first post.

Well my problem is that when i go into the BIOS setup ('DEL' from the initial startup screen) i cannot change any of the settings such as boot order or enabling or disabling on board lan sound etc..its all in grey scale and i can't brose through it and change it. I don't know what to do...i started doing this awhile ago..

Thanx for any help!
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The first thing to know is what motherboard do you have! On a Gigabyte board when the bios comes up you have to press Ctrl and F1 at the same time, it unlocks the bios, keeps a dumb ass from screwing up the bios!
 
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PC eye said:
Have you seen any other problems coming up or just the frozen bios screen? When a battery goes you will start to see other problems in Windows. Just booting into Windows and seeing stalls would indicate a weak battery. With only the bios setup screen being effected you may have a corrupted bios. You may want to look over the troubleshooting tips there as well as go over the proceedure for updating the bios seen in the manual.
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Well when windows is loading witht he loading bar that things all choppy it isn't a fluent left to right motion but choppy. But i think thats normal right? And when you say frozen bios you understand that i can go through the suboptions like "advanced bios features" "standard cmos features" "integrated peripherals" and what not, just can't change any of the options within any of them. all in greyscale. However even at the main cmos screen "select language" "load fail-safe defaults" "load optimized defaults" are greyscaled out too.
 
Archangel said:
that it says the chipset isnt supported when you run the .exe doesnt supprise me :)
I had the same when i wanted to flash my K8SLI.. ( but then... im running win xp x64).

Anyway,.. you have to format a floppy, and select the option to make it a DOS bootdisk. then you copy the .exe ( together with all other files, wich would be a .bin file i think) onto the floppy, and DONT tough the files wich are already on there :)
There should be a guide about how to flash your bios on the gigabyte site... but its most likely something like a:/Awdflash/ and then the name of the .bin file ( Look if you can find a guide tough )
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Alright, and then do you run dos while windows/explorer is running, or do i restart and go to the a:/ prompt?

I will try that too, once im off work that is. I get 3 files: 7VT6PRZ.F1 FLASH879 and autoexec.
 
StrangleHold said:
The first thing to know is what motherboard do you have! On a Gigabyte board when the bios comes up you have to press Ctrl and F1 at the same time, it unlocks the bios, keeps a dumb ass from screwing up the bios!
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I tried that ctrl F1 at the CMOS screen to no avail. I have the Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ
 
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