ASRock P67Pro3SE troubleshooting/Bios Recovery?

[silkstone]

Hi all,

Does anyone know whether it is possible to reflash a corrupt bios on this old board and what sort of tools I would need to do it?

I (stupidly) decided to wash the old board in a dishwasher, but forgot to remove the CMOS battery! When I try to power it up, I get a series of 5 short beeps which, depending on the source, either means that there is no VGA card detected, or a problem with the CPU.

I suspect that it is just a corrupt bios from shorting it out as the video card works fine and I'm 99% sure that the cpu is good. There 'was' a single bent pin on the board, but it's been bent back to as close to the original position as I can manage and I'm pretty sure that the pin is making contact with the cpu.

here's a pic of the bent pin (centre top)

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Have you tried to replace the battery yet? The battery may have lost its charge, and you might get away with recharging it by sticking the old battery in a running system. If its still good to hold a charge.

 

[silkstone]

Have you tried to replace the battery yet? The battery may have lost its charge, and you might get away with recharging it by sticking the old battery in a running system. If its still good to hold a charge.

It's the first thing I did. I'm actually a little surprised it would have corrupted the bios, being only 3V and likely instantly shorting to itself, rather than through the bios chip.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Did the dishwasher use hot water? I'm wondering if something else melted and turned to mush.

 

[MrGenius]

I bet it's the pin. Shorting the battery would kill the battery(eventually). Shorting the + and - terminals is the same thing as jumping the CMOS reset pins. All that's going to do is reset your BIOS. Not corrupt it. No...that's wrong. Doesn't work like that. Anyway...all that could have happened is the battery died. Which would be the same thing as removing the battery. And all that would do is reset your BIOS. Not corrupt it. So yeah...there's pretty much no way that could have happened.

BTW...IMO...that pin doesn't look close enough to the position it should be in. Keep trying. You'll probably be able to make it so it is. Those lands on 1155 are pretty damn small. Not very much wiggle room for any misalignment of the pins at all.

EDIT: Just to answer your question about what whether you can, and what you'd need to, reflash the BIOS...yes, it's totally possible. You'd need the same getup as in the following.
https://www.overclock.net/forum/74-...unbrick-flash-almost-any-card-amd-nvidia.html

 

[Caring1]

That pin looks like it might be shorting across, it needs to be aligned a bit better.

 

[silkstone]

Thanks. I'll try the pin again. I have had a similar problem with the board before due to a bent pin, I think i just need some needle-nose tweezers to get it aligned properly.

It did go through a hot cycle, but there's no chance of anything melting on there, though it did get a bit of food debris in the slots :/

I need to note that I should thoroughly clean the dishwasher as well as check the CMOS battery before doing this again.

On a side note, this method did restore an earlier x58 board that died after a rat pee'd and crapped on it!

 

[Caring1]

I find a sewing needle is good enough to move pins, the point can usually be used to lift or push the pin sideways.

 

[Bones]

I have a scratch awl with a bent tip that works great on pins. I can hook them and move them any way I want and used it to fix a board I bought earlier for my 7700K chip.
As long as the tip is in the right place and it's up high enough to make good contact with the CPU's pin pad where it's supposed to touch it should work.

If you can find one a magnifying visor helps too, makes seeing those pins alot easier.

 

[Caring1]

Ive got one of these mounted on my desk.