Dear everyone,
a friend has bricked a DH87RL by trying to flash a new BIOS via the recovery method (provided a BIO file on a USB drive).
The board does three beeps instead of POST (and nothing else), keeps cycling in those 3 beeps.
Which normally would be a RAM error - except that the RAM previously worked fine, other RAM got tried, and there's no reason to suspect RAM.
Conveniently, the SPI Flash ROM comes in a socket.
Unfortunately, the .BIO image available from Intel is not a 1:1 Flash ROM chip image - rather, it's some kind of an archive that needs to be "extracted" (understood) by the flasher tool.
What we need is a 1:1 image of the BIOS flash chip, for our SPI programmer to be any use.
Could anyone help? The moderators from Intel maybe?
Or, could anyone take a snapshot of theirs (on a healthy motherboard) using for instance the open-source Flashrom tool?
(available for Linux and DOS).
Even just the "recovery block" of the BIOS image would help, if it exists as a stand-alone "flashable object".
Thanks in advance for any help :-)