Folks,
I am...well, was, a very happy DH61AG user. I've got three of them here, and had no problems at all. Until this evening.
Decided I was going to upgrade one of the machines to Windows 8, so checked out the BIOS versions. My board was running 0023. I wanted to be running 104.
Things went as follows:
- Tried to update to 0039. I couldn't, I was told by the F7 BIOS flash that my existing BIOS was too old.
- F7 upgrade to 0031, worked OK
- F7 upgrade to 0039 failed
- Booted in to Windows 7 (existing install of Pro x32 off mSATA SSD) and ran the Express Update within Windows to 0039
- Rebooted OK, all OK so far
- Express Update to 0099 - failed in Windows
- F7 upgrade to 0099 - seemed successful
- Rebooted, now machine won't boot off mSATA drive, reboots constantly at BIOS screen
- Tried booting off USB stick, BIOS locks up solid
- Trying to flash 0104 I get flash failure with "FwUpdateBufferFull" followed by 0x80000....00015 (I think, it doesn't stay on screen long)
So, now my machine won't boot, is stuck on a broken 0099, I obviously can't flash up to 0104, or flash down to something less broken.
Specs:
DH61AG
2x2GB Micron PC3-10600S-9-11-B1 DIMMs
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 wifi card (tried removing this, no change)
Crucial M4 64GB mSATA SSD
Celeron G530
DVI monitor
Dell 90W PSU
Any suggestions?