PINKTULIP

fbordi

PINKTULIP
Flip the BIOS Switch while you are in the BIOS then try to Update the BIOS.

How safe is that? Do I have a chance of bricking or rendering the motherboard not usable?

I believe something is shorting your Mobo. Take it out of the Case and turn it on with minimal Components are attach to it like Graphics Card, one Stick of Memory, Keyboard and Mouse......

Yes this could be the issue, if the postcode LED doesn´t show any C unusualy often. Something in which he wrote reminds me on this maligne bug, some of the FTWK motherboards have had. If it is the case that it is this tragic C postcode error, there is no longer any hope to fix this board somehow, this was what i experienced.
 
In this case there is some kind of corossion in the power connection between the CPU, and a  power connector( maybe one, or both 8 pin 12 volt CPU connectors) which is in the pcb, to support the CPU with electricity. I believe that this "lanes" or connections, are more for the communication between the CPU and the chipsets on the board which support the single functions.
 
Could imagine that a little lack of voltage causes a command to shut of the whole funktion of the mainboard???!
 
This is what i experienced, and once startet showing this behaviour, it will happen more and more often, till ones are no longer able to start the mainboard.
 
In between there is a time when it starts, starts not, works without any bug till it suddenly shuts of, or ones need 25 times of trying to start the board, it starts and is a minute later allready dead again.
After all, this bug becomes worser and worser and i fear, that if the postcode LED showed a single C more than 2-3 times a day, for more than a few seconds, without any failure at the 8 pin 12 Volt CPu power cables or connectors, which can also cause this errorcode, there is no longer hope .

Is your Mainboard still in function, do you still use it?
Do you mean the LED in this position, or other functions, too?
 
If it is only the LED that " burned out" it would be possible, that i send you a new one, of this single LED.
 
Because i have this LED twice.
 
So why not helping you, when there is the coinsidence of having one of this single LED´s and especialy exactly this one, by sending you a letter with this spare part in it.
Hard to believe that the letter which is needed to transport this LEd, costs more than a few Euro, which you would send me back over pay pal, when the letter arrived at your home.
 
In this sad time this LEd could be the little light of hope and faith, which got lost in all of us, in the last few years, perhaps?
Don´t know.

Not any usual bios, and creating a moded bios which allows doing that would not be easy. Even not for EVGA or Intel, i could imagine.

In this case i would start the mobo and turn it off at the psu. Would make a hard reset and take out the card out of the slot and put it in again.
Than i would switch the psu on and the mobo would start without using the start switch, normaly.
 
And this i would do again and again while trying to boot into the bios every single time, till there is a picture again.
Or i would try to use the bios switch to get into the second UEFi overlay. Maybe there this behaviour isn´t shown.
 
And if this would not work i would try both options till it works again.
 
There were moments i could not imagine that my X299 Dark could ever show any picture again, i thought "Now it is dead", and after trying and trying, putting the card from slot to slot, trying to boot just with one ram module and only the boot device, making bios resets, in every single case the moment came when i saw the clear picture of the bios menue again, and was able to activate every single function of this mobo again, working as being taken outof the box a few minutes bevore.