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| 1197789 | 2011-04-28 22:03:00 | ASUS P5Q SE2. The latest BIOS (0801) was buggy. Its fine now tho, with 0601 of the BIOS (the BIOS before 0801). It maybe the ram thats in it. I dont know. Since 0801 says: Enhance the compatibility with certain memory. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1197790 | 2011-04-28 22:44:00 | Weird. I had that same problem but a different board - but it had been running the latest BIOS for a while before that issue happened, so maybe an actual fault. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1197791 | 2011-04-28 22:56:00 | If it were a fault, it probably wouldnt work at all . The system is fine with 0601 . 0801 was on it for a while, till it decided to go stupid lol . Its just lucky that most ASUS mobos now, support Crashfree BIOS . Or the system would have been buggered by now I've seen the looping prob before (was on a P5PL2-E) . It did a similar thing, but just kept going back to the post screen . And kept saying, its recovering the BIOS too . It was like it couldn't detect anything in the system . But that was my mistake, it was a beta BIOS . But the latest P5Q SE2 BIOS isnt a beta |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1197792 | 2011-04-28 23:29:00 | Crashfree was what kept telling me to recover the BIOS... Luckily I have an EEPROM programmer and at one point pulled the EEPROM and reprogrammed it manually - still didn't help though (well it did for 1 day then it went crazy again) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1197793 | 2011-05-02 03:49:00 | Bios was on 1101 and that's what I'd updated it to some time ago. So I re-flashed it to 1101 again. So far so good.... A question: can a virus affect/corrupt the bios or its' settings?? PSU was swapped out earlier on, but no difference. Had inspected and can't see any bulging caps. Fingers crossed from here..... wish me luck! Thanks. |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 1197794 | 2011-05-02 03:55:00 | Writing to the BIOS is very easy, there are many flashing programs for legitimate reading\writing\erasing of the BIOS EPROM. As such, it would not be incredibly hard to engineer a virus which erases your BIOS chip - however in practice this is not usual - as far as I know there has only been one major virus which touches the BIOS - the Chernobyl virus (en.wikipedia.org(computer_virus))and it doesn't work on anything newer than Windows ME Recently, viruses are geared towards running botnets for the purposes or distributed computing, spamming and DDoS atacks. There's not much money to be made by virus writers in erasing people's BIOSes... and making money is what it's all about these days! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1197795 | 2011-05-02 08:13:00 | Won't be bulging capacitors. I think that model mobo uses the new polymer caps. But the symptoms are similar. | braindead (1685) | ||
| 1197796 | 2011-05-02 08:52:00 | Polymers can and do still fail though, although more explosively I think... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1197797 | 2011-05-04 09:11:00 | Ok . It's been 2 days now since I re-flashed the bios with the same 1101 version . All is well and I've restarted the PC maybe 20 -30 times . Each time there's a healthy beep . The reason I asked about virus and bios is I cleaned a Trojan generic3 from the PC . AVG pinged AQ Elite . exe with this virus . This file turns out to be a game cheat for some kind of game/s the nephew has . It's quarantined now but I'm thinking it's co-incidence?? |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 1197798 | 2011-05-04 09:16:00 | According to the Prevx site, that file is an information stealer / cloaked malware. So may steal passwords as well | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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