S1200BTLC - No Display after updating to latest FW package

What is the PBA# of your board? PBA# is a six-digit dash three-digit number printed on a white label on your board.

This is a pre-production engineering sample board, which can't be updated by normal FW update process.

As far as I know it can only be recovered by a BIOS engineer, using a special tool. You may want to check with your Intel contact.

you might as well try the BIOS recovery, It won't hurt anything since the board is already dead,

But depending on what code level you started with on a silver board, it is likely that BIOS recovery will fail.

You also need a recovery .cap file and i see that the BIOS 24 stack has one.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/20002/eng/S1200BTS_UEFI_BIOS24.zip&lang=eng&Dwnldid=20002&DownloadType=Firmware&OSFullname=OS+Independent

Added a few lines for emphasizes .

The following procedure boots the recovery BIOS and flashes the normal BIOS:

1. Turn off the system power.

2. Move the BIOS recovery jumper (J2G1)  to the recovery state. (Pin 2-3)

3. Insert a (DOS)bootable BIOS recovery media containing the new BIOS image files. (heck if i know why since it won't be booting to the media, but if it is not bootable recovery does not detect it)

     These files are all the files in the firmware download placed in the root directory of your Dos Bootable media (usb key usually) You need to rename startup.nsh to anything_else.nsh and create new STARTUP.NSH containing just the line:

      iflash32 /u /ni R0024REC.cap

4. Turn on the system power.

The BIOS POST screen will appear displaying the progress (after a very long time - you may not get video for 10 minutesso wait before desiding it has failed), and the system will boot to the EFI shell. The EFI shell then executes the Startup.nsh batch file to start the flash update process. The user should then switch off the power and return the recovery jumper to its normal position. The user should not interrupt the BIOS POST on the first boot after recovery.

When the flash update completes:

1. Remove the recovery media .

2. Turn off the system power .

3. Restore the jumper to its original position.

4. Turn on the system power.

5. Re-flash any custom blocks, such as user binary or language blocks.

Run the anything_else.nsh to update the ME code.

This is production board, however it doesn't support E3-1200V2 family. As per the Tested processor list, E3-1200V2 family requires PBA# -352 or higher.