The BIOS of the FOXCONN 945gz7mc remains checked

[SHASHAN]

I have a strange case with a foxconn 945gz7mc board. It has an American Megatrends bios, when the pc starts up, the logo of a m appears, and below it says loading USB drivers...
And there it stays, to never start up or respond again, either to commands with the keyboard or some event of the same system.
I have already tried changing the battery, moving the jumpers in all ways, disconnecting everything, and leaving it only with the hard drive and of course the power connection. And it remains the same.
I thought of flashing the bios, but, according to what I read on the foxconn page, it can only be done through a program that runs on the operating system (Windows), but how the hell do I do it if the bios doesn't even go to the boot stage??
Likewise, how to do it via USB? Or diskette? Or some electronic method of making some bridge or connection?
Thank you for the help you can provide.

[packosoft]

first of all, welcome
second, have you tried booting up with just the power and monitor plugged in? no keyboard, mouse, etc. (especially if they are usb)

[Fassou]

If letting go of all peripherals does the same thing, try disconnecting the hard drive, or the optical drives, to locate the culprit of the problem.

Salu2! and Good Luck

[SHASHAN]

Hello, thank you very much for addressing my concern: I have already reset it several times, left it for a full day without battery, and when I tried it, I only connected the power supply, the processor, and a hard drive (I have already tried with 4 different hard drives, 2 SATA and 2 IDE), I also turned it on without any type of drive or device connected other than the power and the processor. It continues with the same problem :wall:

What I want to know is if it is possible to flash the BIOS with some method other than doing it with the Operating System, logically because it does not boot, it does not go beyond the message described in the question I asked.
Maybe some electronic bridge, I don't know...

[Fassou]

With the source, motherboard, processor, and memory, it should boot, and if you also have a PS/2 keyboard (USB ones can cause problems, although you can use an adapter) you should be able to enter the BIOS.

Anyway, if you can post a picture of the screen, we can help you better.

Regards!

P.D.: Yes, you can update a BIOS without using Windows.

[Sylver]

@Fassou:

PD: Si, se puede actualizar una BIOS sin usar Windows.

+1

From a diskette you can do it without problems. You have to download the latest version of the BIOS for your motherboard and follow the instructions on the manufacturer's website.

Greetings

[SHASHAN]

Hello fellow!

Well you know I was looking at the manual and it doesn't say anything about doing it on diskette… I'm going to go crazy with that crappy board. No it's not mine it's borrowed, I used the PC to do some simple letters in Word and pumm, the next day when I went to turn it on it was like this..

[fjavi]

@SHASHAN:

Hello fellow!

Well you know that I was looking at the manual and it doesn't say anything about doing it on a diskette… I'm going to go crazy with that dirty board. It's not my own, I borrowed the PC to make some simple letters in Word and pumm, the next day when I went to turn it on it was like this..

Do you have something connected via USB?

If it stops right where the USB is, try with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, those boards have been around for a while but the BIOS shouldn't be corrupt if it shows you something from the BIOS post, something is wrong with the memory or some hardware that prevents it from loading, if it allows you to enter the BIOS, load a safe configuration, although if you removed the battery it would set the default configuration, but it seems that some hardware doesn't pass the BIOS post, it will be a matter of not connecting USB.

regards

[hAyO]

Let's see if it's a ram module that's giving us bad contact, or something like that, it wouldn't be the first time.

[JuezDred]

I haven't read if you can or cannot enter the bios. If you can, disable the usb. Just in case. Let's see if it starts up. Anyway, the ram modules. Sometimes they are a pain.

[mitute27]

@SHASHAN:

I have a strange case with a foxconn 945gz7mc board. It has an American Megatrends bios, when the pc starts up, the AM logo appears, and below it says loading USB controllers...
And there it stays, never to start up or respond again, either to commands with the keyboard or some event of the same system.
I have already tried changing the battery, moving the jumpers in all ways, disconnecting everything, and leaving it only with the hard drive and of course the power connection. And it remains the same.
I thought of flashing the bios, but, according to what I read on the foxconn page, you can only do it through a program that runs on the operating system (Windows), but how the hell do I do it if the bios doesn't even get to the boot stage??
Likewise, how do I do it via USB? Or diskette? Or some electronic method of making some kind of bridge or connection?
Thanks for the help you can provide.

Hello. As far as I know these bios are only installed through an executable.exe file, not with flashing. In fact, to flash the bios you need to have the bios functioning.
I have the same motherboard. We are talking about an old pc, right? Well, mine is a compaq presario I bought around the year 2008.
Have you tried updating any bios and that's why the machine is like this? If so, you have probably corrupted the bios.
Another thing that comes to mind is that, if this is a pc with more than 5 years, and with a lot of use, the bios battery is directly depleted. You can confirm this if you have previously had problems with the time settings for example.

Now, if the bios has been corrupted, either because you wanted to update it, or because of some very unusual virus, you have an option that is quite difficult. There are some technicians who dedicate themselves to recovering bios I think I saw a publication on Mercado Libre. It is done as follows, first you have to find someone who has the same model as your motherboard, and put the bios of this equipment in your motherboard. These bios will allow you to access your operating system, once there you have to make a backup of the bios through a program, I have seen in linux, maybe there is for windows (google bios backup). You can directly enter a live cd of linux or from a usb drive with linux. Once the backup of the bios is made (that is, you copy the software that comes with the healthy bios), restart the computer and enter the bios again with F10 (SETUP), and put your bios back into the motherboard, this is done with the pc turned on :ugly:, since the bios use volatile memory they are only useful when turning on the computer once entered into the bios, it doesn't matter if the bios is put or not, that's why you put your bios there, and you load the information of the new bios. It's tricky, but trickier is that someone has that motherboard and lends it to you for that :troll:
There is a video on youtube that shows how to do this last procedure.

I have this motherboard I can give you a backup of my bios if you need it, but it will be of no use to you if you can't even enter the bios setup. If the bios stays frozen, the ONLY solution is to find someone who has a motherboard so you can use those Bios.
Regards I hope it helps you. :fuckyea:

[mitute27]

@mitute27:

Hello. As far as I know, these bios are only installed through an executable.exe file, not through flashing. In fact, to flash the bios, you need to have the bios working.
I have the same motherboard. We're talking about an old PC, right? Well, mine is a compaq presario that I bought around 2008.
Have you tried updating the bios and that's why the machine is like this? If so, you probably corrupted the bios.
Another thing that comes to mind is that, if this is a PC over 5 years old and with a lot of use, the bios battery is directly depleted. You can confirm this if you've had problems with the time settings before, for example.

Now, if the bios was corrupted, either because you wanted to update it or because of some very unusual virus, you have an option that is quite difficult. There are some technicians who specialize in recovering bios. I think I saw a post on Mercado Libre. It's done as follows: first, you have to find someone who has the same model as your motherboard, and put the bios of that computer into your motherboard. These bios will allow you to access your operating system. Once there, you have to make a backup of the bios through a program. I've seen one for Linux, maybe there's one for Windows (google bios backup). You can directly enter a Linux live cd or from a USB drive with Linux. Once you've made a copy of the bios (that is, you copy the software that comes with the healthy bios), restart the computer and enter the bios again with F10 (SETUP), and put your bios back into the motherboard, this is done with the PC turned on :ugly:, since the bios use volatile memory and are only useful when turning on the computer. Once in the bios, it doesn't matter if the bios is set or not, that's why you put your bios there, and load the information from the new bios. It's tricky, but even trickier is finding someone who has that motherboard and lends it to you for that :troll:
There's a video on YouTube that shows how to do this last procedure.

I have this motherboard and I can give you a backup of my bios if you need it, but it won't be of any use if you can't even enter the bios setup. If the bios freezes, the ONLY solution is to find someone who has a motherboard so you can use those bios.
Regards, I hope it helps. :fuckyea:

Also make sure it's not the Ram memory, even the power supply, especially if it's an old one or is a 220v one.

[steven]

I also have a foxconn d945 and I have already changed the battery, ram, hard drive, processor, power supply, keyboard and jumpers and nothing happens, it doesn't go past the bios