Im glad that you have been able to solve the problem
Thanks for the welcome
Rma was going to be my last option
When i brought it back to life i couldnt believe it... like i couldnt believe when it drop dead when i succesfully upgrade bios with no errors

I bricked my board with the F5 BIOS. I saw your post about unbricking and tried shorting those pins. I was able to get the motherboard to display an Award BootBlock message, and it tried reading a BIOS off the hard drive (which was not connected). Shortly afterwards it rebooted again.

Is that what you saw on your screen when you successfully shorted the pins? How did you get it to load your backup BIOS? I don't have a backup BIOS on my hard drive, or anywhere else for that matter. I figured I could download the F4 BIOS and use that as my "backup". I tried putting it on a floppy but the motherboard never read from the floppy when it actually displayed the bootblock recovery screen.

Please help!!

is where you need the bios image on a USB stick

see SBENRAP Fixc & the Bios Recovery PostMethod 3 tells you how to set up a usb drive.

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I had the floppy/CD-rom/hard drives/usb drives disconnected from the motherboard. When i got the pc to boot, it did everything on its own (copied the backup bios) then asked me to put in my operating system disk. At that point i just turned the pc off, then reconnected everything and turned it back on.

Thanks for the additional info! Did you ever see what I saw? Where it tried reading the BIOS off the hard drive (which wasn't connected)? Does that mean I was close, but didn't quite short it at the right time? Or was that where it should have copied it automatically from the backup BIOS?

If you could describe what you saw on your screen, I would appreciate it......

thanks!

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so what I was seeing was the "close but not quite right" result. When you actually do short it at exactly the right time, you end up seeing the default Gigabyte full screen boot graphics, followed by the normal F4 BIOS startup messages. The BIOS then reports something to the effect that the (main) BIOS is corrupt and that it's recovering (copying the F4 BIOS from the backup BIOS).

Awesome!!! Thanks so much guys!!

Good news drwtsn32
As you say Is the Normal routine, not seen it on my X48T, but has happened a couple of times on the EP45-Extreme.

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thanks just great news hummm

ill have to play the waiting game, RMA it already

so i just bought me another x48t from newegg im using it right now, revision 1.03 and will sell or just build a second x48t system for my son or sell it.

i would not touch any bios that says it is F5 with a-z as a modifier...giga should jump right to "F6".

But then they'd have to admit they screwed up F5! Instead they silently released a "newer" F5 on their web site... anyone have the guts to try it?