I have Intel D845GLAD Mother Board with 256 MB DDR RAM and Intel 1.7GHz P4 Processor. BIOS seems to be dead as no display found on Starting PC. I have check both RAM and Processor with another Board and both are OK. From Intel site I came to know that I need a BIOS Recovery file (.BIOS) to recover dead BIOS(in case BIOS is dead). From where I can get this file and/or how to recover this BIOS? I have tried with google search with the word "BIOS recovery for D845GLAD" and found some link on intel.com from there I came to know that BIOS may be recovered. 1. I didn't heard any beep sound. 2. All indicators e.g. HDD led, MB led, FDD, CD-R lead are signaling perfectly. 3. CPU fan, HDD Spin, FDD spin all are ok. 4. Get contineous Beep when RAM detached from Board. 5. With a contineous gap it sensing FDD. 6. Moitor indicatior is green (monitor is OK as I have checked the same with External TV-Tuner box) 7. I'm using on board Dispaly 8. I have tried with a) Bios config Jumper pin 2,3 with and without battery b) No Bios config Jumper with and without battery Please help me

What makes you think it's the BIOS & not something else? If the BIOS is actually bad, you can't repair it if you can't get the board to fire up...you'd have to have a 2nd identical working motherboard & perform a "hot swap": http://www.tokenasians.com/articles... I suggest you do some more troubleshooting before even considering the above procedure. "I have tried with a) Bios config Jumper pin 2,3 with and without battery b) No Bios config Jumper with and without battery" Assuming 1-2 is the normal position for the clearCMOS jumper, you have to 1st unplug the power cord, then move the jumper to 2-3...wait a few seconds, then move it back to 1-2 again. The power cord MUST be unplugged when doing this or the BIOS may not reset. "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Since you were fiddling with it, make sure the clear cmos jumper is in the "normal" position - the mboard will not boot if it is in the clear postion. "I have check both RAM and Processor with another Board and both are OK." The ram working in another mboard proves there's nothing wrong with it and it works in the other mboard, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will work in yours - it has to be compatible with the mboard main chipsets's memory controller, or on some recent mboards with certain cpus, compatible with the memory controller built into the cpu. Was this mboard ever working before with this same ram? ...... Bioses do not suddenly go dead, unless it's the rare case the mboard has been damaged by some external event. However, if you attempted to flash the bios just before this happened, if the flash was unsuccessful, or if the version you flashed with was one for a different mboard or mboard version or revision, or if the flash chip physically failed, the changed bios version is not loaded until after you reboot - in that case, after you reboot, the computer will not boot. If you DID attempt to flash the bios, if you have a floppy drive connected, if the floppy led comes on and stays on for a short while after the usual brief blink you usually see while booting, the flash chip is probably okay, and you can try doing a bios Recovery procedure specific to your bios brand, or a bios Recovery procedure found in your mboard manual. If the floppy led does NOT come on after the usual brief flash while booting, the flash chip may have physically failed while flashing - that is COMMON - in that case, if the flash chip is removable, you must replace it with another flash chip that is already flashed (available on the web for about $40 and up, e.g. http://www.badflash.com ); if the flash chip is soldered into the mboard, it can be replaced by a specialist if you send it to him, but it's often cheaper to get another mboard.

Check the motherboard manual to see if one of the bios jumper setting is for 'recovery'. I worked with an older intel slot 1 motherboards that had that feature. In that case recovery mode was 'no jumper'. I think most slot 1 boards made by intel had that feature. Check my #3 here: http://www.computing.net/answers/ha... for details. Obviously the file I link to there is not for your motherboard. There's a good chance your P4 board won't have a recovery feature. And if it does, as already mentioned, there's a good chance it's not a bios problem. A bios recovery is more tricky than a regular uprade since nothing shows on the screen but I guess you have nothing to lose.