Bricked Motherboard | External BIOS flashing with CH341A programmer

In this video we show how to flash a BIOS chip externally on a MSI H310-F Pro. This can be useful for fixing a bricked BIOS, updating to a new BIOS to support a new CPU generation or removing a forgotten BIOS password.

[sobianauman]

Imagine the seller who sold him watching this😅

[GloriousEggroll]

Thank you so much for this. I've been mucking around with a Huananzhi x99 chinese board, flashed a bios it didnt like and needed to do this. Of all the various videos I found this one was the only one that showed me exactly what I needed to do step by step.

[alcateltolley]

Genuinley Thankyou so much. 3 days ago i did a bios update on the same board as you. Literally didnt even turn on... I knew what i done but never knew about the ch341a for £10 it was worth a go and with your guide on repeat for about 2 hours i felt confident enough to attempt it alot of fiddling with the clip later and i have one working PC!!! I had 3 long beeps at first and reseated the ram but after turning it on 5 or 6 times it fired up and has been running flawlessly for 6 hours. I cannot Thankyou enough youve earened a sub from me for sure.

[Elfcheg]

Thank you! I have just fixed my b360m pro vdh! I was stupid enough to update bios for no apparent reason as a result I got a computer that even didn't power on. At first I thought that somehow ny power supply was damaged.

Thanks to you it works again! And I have a neat programmer tool to play with :)

[deceptivegamr]

I agree with others, this has been the most helpful. I have watched several videos before this and I was still not confident enough to try. After watching your video I felt like a pro! :P
I am a bit confused that the chip model printed on the bios chip is different then the one flashrom says it found. After much research and reading the manufacturer macronix info, still doesn't tell me anything.

[ldee]

Great video tutorial well represented.

[putraadriansyah]

I'm curious.. when the PCH doesn't detect supported CPU in the bios, it doesn't initialize the CPU right? So what's activating the LED?

I mean, there's motherboards that throw beep codes or led blink code when something goes wrong like CPU or memory not detected.. is there anything inside the board that runs code before CPU? Does the PCH runs some code before CPU? superio/kbc? There must be some code to check the system, right?

[panayiotispapakyriakou]

Thanks for the video. These flashers (and their accessories) are flimsy and occasionally of very low quality. The flashing software are also temperamental. It may take hours to do the job shown here due to poor connections and buggy software.

[rianrassetiadi]

YOU SAVED MY LIVE BROO.... IT WOORKED....

[joserosario]

Hi All, any ideas where I can find the bios.bin file for a GA-7PESH2 server board, I am trying to extract the file using UEFI tools but the bin file seems to be incomplete. BTW I am fairly new at this... thanks.

[EstebanMurielMoreno]

Hi, nice video bro!
Can you teach me please, which program did u use to flash the chip? Thanks a lot 🙏🏼

[RealShinpin]

Do you think this would be an effective way to remove a firmware virus occupying the bios/uefi?

[sarangawalimuni]

Thanks for the video dude
Did you keep the bios file in the flashrom root directory?

[vextorfx]

Although your bios chip is of some kind w25q128JV??

[ThisHandleIsTaken_]

I have asus 320 mk prime Motherboard. No signal, no keyboard, no mouse. What can i do ? Could you Please make another video on the same topic for ppl who dont have CODING as native language.

[niloydas]

Hay i have my hp silm desktop stuck in the specification page and the keybord do not respond. I tried different keyboard too. Help me please

[alongkodpaste]

have a website or group Do you give away computer motherboard bios files?

[chadwickcloister]

Nice. I have a Mac with suspect corrupt BIOS. I will flash tomorrow. People think Apple's have no BIOS, but those people are wrong

[Naddelable]

is there a windows tool to use for flashing?

[JohnCalebWarren]

Great video man! I just bought a MSI mining motherboard off eBay that I suspect has a corrupted bios. It won't post past the setup screen. Won't acknowledge keys on keyboard to press F2 or Del

Question: is there any way to flash that bios chip easier? The coding looks pretty complicated, but I love that little tool