Gigabyte Motherboard Will Not Read Bios

[Hsv_Man]

Hi all my motherboard is a GA-8Ipe1000 Rev 3.x I recently upgraded my system with a brand new Asus SATA Dvd burner to find when i turned the machine on it ran for 5 minutes then came up the following error message

Award BootBlock Bios V1.0
Copyright (c) 2000 Award Software Inc

Scanning Bios Image in Hard Drive
Can not Find BIOS Image in Hard Drive or Diskette

since then all the computer can manage to do is startup with the following message and go no further. I really need to know what the problem is and how i would go about fixing it. Thankyou and Your Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated.

 

[StrangleHold]

Could be the Sata drive changed your boot order. Try going into the bios and set your harddrive as 1st. in the boot order.

 

[Hsv_Man]

Yeah thats the thing i cant even get into the bios that is the only message that comes up when i start my computer.

 

[pies]

You could trying clearing bios by removing the motherboard battery for a few seconds make sure the computer turned off and unpluged though.

 

[Hsv_Man]

Already done that left it out for 5 minutes infact all for nothing though as the same error came up again when i started the machine.

 

[Dean11]

you should try to upgrade the bios with a bootable floppy. Have you tried using a different hard drive in the machine? preferably IDE.. if you try this make sure you unplug your new dvd drive as well

 

[StrangleHold]

Have you tried unplugging the Sata DVD drive and see if it boots?

 

[Hsv_Man]

Yeah I have tried all your suggestions and to no avail i believe it is time to purchase a new motherboard as i am pretty sure the bios chip has had it.

 

[Hsv_Man]

Ok i am sick of mucking around with this motherboard it is time to get a new one i am not happy and i doubt I will buy a gigabyte motherboard as from what i have read this problem only occurs with them.

 

[Hsv_Man]

Just letting you guys know I bought a new motherboard and the system is running better than ever now with a fresh install of Windows XP Professional SP2 awesome

 

[StrangleHold]

Glad you got it running.