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| Thread ID: 110622 | 2010-06-25 02:29:00 | Problems with pc | nedkelly (9059) | Press F1 |
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| 1113394 | 2010-06-25 02:29:00 | Hey a mate from work asked me to reinstall her pc, which is about 6 years old, and has not been used for a while. So I thought it would be a simple job like usual, but no first the ram was not seated right, fixed that, got the important stuff off the hard drive, loaded the xp cd then got a BSOD saying the BIOS was not fully ACPI and to use f7 at the start of the xp cd load, so I did the load went perfect, got the drivers installed and then tried to shutdown. It looked like it was going normal so I walked off came back an hour later and the screen said it is now safe to shut down your computer, which is strange because the motherboard is atx. Any ideas what is happening with this pc? The CPU is an AMD Sempron with a Asus M2N-MX SE motherboard with 1Gb of ddr2 ram, OS is XP Home SP2 |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1113395 | 2010-06-25 02:34:00 | I would update the BIOS if 0501 isnt on it now. Thats the latest version of the BIOS. 0403 of the BIOS may fix it?? M2N-MX SE BIOS 0403 Fixed the issue that under certain condition some system may shut down automatically. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113396 | 2010-06-25 02:47:00 | is it easy to muck up a bios flash? I dont usually like flashing stuff for other people. Ok it has AMI BIOS 0201 |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1113397 | 2010-06-25 02:59:00 | Nope. Only if you flash it with the wrong BIOS. 0201 is the original BIOS by the looks of it. There's been 4 updates since then. Just go here (support.asus.com). Type the model in top left. Select it, select the OS doesnt matter which one. Download the BIOS and AFUDOS (the BIOS util to flash it). Unzip both then copy both to a bootable floppy or flash drive. Then change the bootdisk to whatever she's got in the BIOS. Boot from it Then type afudos /inameofbios. Then wait for it to finish. It looks like this mobo supports EZ-flash (but I dont think this is the version, that lets you flash the BIOS from within the BIOS) Which would be easier. Since, you dont need any bootable floppies or flash drives. Just a flash drive Ands since, this supports crashfreeBIOS, if it stuffs up, if she's got the mobo CD, chuck it in , it'll reflash the BIOS to the original BIOS. Dont forget to set the settings in the BIOS to its default settings after you flash it. Then reconfigure the settings / save the settings. Then reboot. Or things may not work properly |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113398 | 2010-06-25 03:02:00 | no, she does not have the mobo disk, any other way to fix it if I screw up? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1113399 | 2010-06-25 03:17:00 | You'll need a floppy then, so you can put the unzipped BIOS update on it . Or get the Audio/ACPI driver, chipset (under utilities on the site I posted), and the BIOS update . Unzip the BIOS update, Audio install file, and ACPI driver first to the hdd, then burn them to a CDR . Hmm . Or get that ASUS update under utilities (I think this is for the BIOS) . Install it, unzip the zipped the BIOS file first, then load the BIOS update file from its menu . DON'T let it look for the update then flash it . It'll probably freeze . . . If you do this, disable any AV programs / firewalls first . If its on the net now, and you cant figure it out, get teamviewer . I'll do it from here . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113400 | 2010-06-25 03:37:00 | Damn ran out of time . So, you should get the ATK0110 driver, (under utils) chipset, (under chipset), and these are under utils -> Audio, HD patch, S3 patch, ASUS update, and the BIOS update (under BIOS) . Unzip all of them (into their folders), if you decide to burn all of them to CD . Since the chipset drivers are Nvidia, it may include Nvidia firewall . DON'T install this |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113401 | 2010-06-25 04:19:00 | Hmm it wont boot any boot disks, says BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1113402 | 2010-06-25 04:21:00 | Its not going to be a Bios issue, updating to the latest version is not a bad idea, but its not going to fix the root problem. Its been working years on the current version, assuming the "same" OS is going back on....... Anyway, first suspect is Ram, I would use something like Memtest86+ to test the ram. Secondly a 6 year old PC, check for swollen capacitors on the motherboard. Third check for bad sectors on the HDD, can remove and scan it on a second PC is often he easiest thing to do. Fourth, Check the PS on a Multimeter if you have one or use another PSU. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1113403 | 2010-06-25 04:50:00 | I highly doubt there is anything physically wrong, first thing I did was check for bad capacitors. Oh come on, now the pc will not boot again. Am slowly getting more annoyed at this pc. |
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