First post, by Ribbicipp
So, I made a stupid mistake when trying to update the BIOS of my MSI MS-6309 motherboard.
I mixed up this version: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-ms-6309-v1.x-va5
with the version that I have: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-ms-6309-v2-0 and dowloaded the 1.9 BIOS for the first one linked.
Created a floppy with the driver and let it install. Seems to have finished fine and asked for a system reboot. Restarted the PC and then noticed that the PC basically didn't do anything. No boot up sequence, no picture on the screen.
After a few restarts (restart-button did nothing, so I had to power off and power on the machine several times), it finally booted up and showed picture on the screen with it counting the SDRAM memory as usual. I was able to enter the BIOS and change settings etc. However the BIOS was no longer able to detect any HDD, CDROM or anything even though it did so automatically before. So basically I couldn't boot into anything, not even a bootdisk floppy.
After another restart, the screen went off again with nothing happening.
This seems to be how it is now. Have to turn off and then turn on the PC several times before I get lucky and get picture with the boot up. But that's it. No HDD, CDROM or floppy access. I am however able to enter BIOS, but I mean, what can I even do in there if I can't access anything else?
Any way of reverting to the old bios or doing anything else, or is this motherboard now bricked?
I've tried resetting the CMOS with the jumper, but I guess all this does is revert the current BIOS settings back to factory (which means it doesn't revert the actual bios version, just it's settings).