Jailer
Not strong, but bad
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I pretty confident I already know the answer to this question but is there any way to recover a bricked motherboard with a soldered BIOS chip from a failed BIOS flash?
I was looking to upgrade the CPU and memory in jr's computer since it was choking on the Adobe suite products she uses for class. It's a low spec AM4, cheap as heck build that I put together 4 years ago for next to nothing. To upgrade the CPU required a BIOS flash. The motherboard is a Gigabyte A320M-S2H so it doesn't have the "dual BIOS" feature that their premium offerings have. I've recovered failed BIOS flashes in the past on motherboards that had removable BIOS chips by hot swapping them but this is new territory for me.
I know the board is cheap and ebay can provide a replacement but is there anything I can do to recover this thing or am I chasing my tail here?
I was looking to upgrade the CPU and memory in jr's computer since it was choking on the Adobe suite products she uses for class. It's a low spec AM4, cheap as heck build that I put together 4 years ago for next to nothing. To upgrade the CPU required a BIOS flash. The motherboard is a Gigabyte A320M-S2H so it doesn't have the "dual BIOS" feature that their premium offerings have. I've recovered failed BIOS flashes in the past on motherboards that had removable BIOS chips by hot swapping them but this is new territory for me.
I know the board is cheap and ebay can provide a replacement but is there anything I can do to recover this thing or am I chasing my tail here?