How To Fix A Bricked Motherboard

you've done it now your pc lost power during a bios update because of a freak thunderstorm or a circuit breaker or you just tripped over the power cord and you've bricked it meaning you now have a very expensive paperweight is there any way to resurrect it from the dead well as with many things in life the best way to deal with an issue is to stop it from happening in the first place and other than the obvious step of connecting your pc to an uninterruptible power supply or ups while the bios is updating or making sure the battery is full if it's a laptop the best thing you can do is buy a motherboard with some kind of bios backup or easy recovery option this can take the form of several different features some boards have a full on dual bio setup where if your primary bios gets corrupted the secondary bios chip will automatically kick in when you try to start the pc and it will copy its contents back over to the primary bios so you don't have very much downtime at all there are also some boards that require you to flip a physical toggle to switch over to the secondary bios then once you've started the system and entered your bios settings you can flip the switch back over and then flash the corrupted chip other boards will allow you to overwrite a corrupted bios with a good copy that's stored on a usb stick without needing to physically adjust anything on the pcb itself you might see this feature advertised under names like bios flashback or crash free bios you just use a working pc to download the bios file from the manufacturer's website copy it to the usb stick sometimes there's a bit of formatting category to make sure the file name is right then you plug the stick into the bridge pc to load the fresh bios some motherboards have you press a dedicated button on the i o panel while others will simply detect and load it for you when you power the system on sometimes there's a specific port you got to plug it into as well but let's say your motherboard doesn't have any kind of emergency fallback option it used to be that some motherboards had replaceable bios chips that fit into a socket similar to cpus but this is no longer the case so now the fun begins you could try sourcing a replacement bios chip from somewhere like ebay or an online retailer that specializes in selling them but you would need to be pretty comfortable with a soldering iron and since modern bios chips are rather small it could be quite a delicate operation especially since you run the risk of damaging nearby components if you don't have steady hands fortunately there's another method you can try it is actually possible to flash a bad bios chip by connecting a device directly to the little pins that hold it onto the motherboard you'll need to pick up a little external bios programmer or flashing tool that looks like this with the ch341a being a popular model and it'll cost you between 10 and 15 just make sure that the one that you buy includes one of these clamps it kind of looks like a car jumper cable the basic idea is to connect one end of the cable to the flashing device itself while the clamp goes directly onto your bad bios chip just make sure the red part of the cable lines up with pin one which is usually indicated on the chip with a little dot from there you can plug the flashing device into a working pc via usb and load up either the included flashing software or an application like as programmer make sure your broken motherboard is disconnected from power then use the software to write a good copy of the bios back to your corrupted chip this process can take some time and can involve some trial and error but it is a heck of a lot better than dropping three figures on a brand new motherboard or dropping a hot soldering iron onto your foot speaking of drop check out the drop pc38x gaming headset made in collaboration with sennheiser its open back design is based on the respected pc37x but with added enhancements including retuned drivers for higher fidelity and better frequency response the driver impedance is also now 28 ohms for use with gaming controllers or other low power devices and it's got a new knit mesh headband that provides less heat retention and better comfort it includes two sets of cables for either your pc or console and two different ear pads knit mesh and velour so buy yours today at the link below and save 40 on your purchase until november 30th thanks for watching guys like or dislike check out our other videos and leave a comment if you have a suggestion for a future fastest possible topic

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Length: 4min 20sec (260 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 23 2021