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Thread ID: 65909	2006-02-04 01:40:00	Asus motherboard bios flash	Midavalo (7253)	Press F1

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427071	2006-02-13 22:42:00	ok, i got home lastnite. Pulled out the power cable from the PSU, then pulled out he bios battery, then moved the jumper from pin1/2 to pin 2/3. left the pc there for about 30mins. Then put the jumper back to pin 1/2, battery back in and power cable back in. Then powered it up and got the same long BEEEEEEP sequence. bugger the board is dead!	Blitz (9744)
427072	2006-02-14 00:01:00	Dont know if anyone has said this, but have you looked up the beeeeeep error in the manual, it will tell you what the issue is. I must have skipped that bit while reading the posts. However a beep code is better than none at all.	SolMiester (139)
427073	2006-02-14 02:36:00	Dont know if anyone has said this, but have you looked up the beeeeeep error in the manual, it will tell you what the issue is. I must have skipped that bit while reading the posts. However a beep code is better than none at all. Yes i checkd the beep code in the manual but they did not list any. I search on the web for award bios beep code n apparently it mean faulty CPU. But i also took home a 2.8gig P4 cpu from work to test and got the same error. I even made a floppy boot disk with the awdflash file in it so it would boot in and autoflash toe bios for me, but still nothing. I even tried to boot with the ASUS utils CD and that didnt work either...	Blitz (9744)
427074	2006-02-14 07:48:00	Yes i checkd the beep code in the manual but they did not list any. I search on the web for award bios beep code n apparently it mean faulty CPU. But i also took home a 2.8gig P4 cpu from work to test and got the same error. I even made a floppy boot disk with the awdflash file in it so it would boot in and autoflash toe bios for me, but still nothing. I even tried to boot with the ASUS utils CD and that didnt work either... Therein lies a big issue with this type of backup, as has been mentioned before, the PC will not be able to boot to anything (HDD, floppy, thumb drive or CD) unless it can Successfully POST. Your PC is not successfully POSTing, QED, it won't boot. I wouldn't surprise me if this BIOS thingy that ASUS has, is a some clueless marketing droids brainwave i.e. more fluff to add to the specs, possibly in response to Gigabytes dual BIOS. I'll say one thing about the CD (& floppy) idea for installing low level software, far less can go wrong than loading it from Windows, which can be fakey at the best of times, but when you're doing something like flashing your BIOS, Murphy says that Windows or one of the hanger on apps, will fart. Beep codes are not an exact science, some are dual purpose, if your BIOS is a bit under the weather, is there any likelyhood it is misrepresenting what is going on with the hardware?	Murray P (44)
427075	2006-02-14 23:59:00	I used to flash via dos, however via Windows (it has come a long way) is usually ok nowadays. I think the issue here was that the A/V was left running while flash....oh dear, I am not surprised it corrupted the BIOS. Yes Murray, you are quite right, this is asus answer to Gigabytes Dual BIOS, however I fail to understand how a backup is supposed to work when the board wont post!	SolMiester (139)
427076	2006-02-16 17:22:00	ok, i got home lastnite . Pulled out the power cable from the PSU, then pulled out he bios battery, then moved the jumper from pin1/2 to pin 2/3 . left the pc there for about 30mins . Then put the jumper back to pin 1/2, battery back in and power cable back in . Then powered it up and got the same long BEEEEEEP sequence . bugger the board is dead! are you sure? :illogical I am a complete noobie at this but has still managed to get myself into the same dark corner as yourself, Blitz . After my own vain attempt at flashing the BIOS on my ASUS P4V800-X card the comp won't reboot, the fan comes on but the screen stays black (and it wont even sniff at the CD or floppy) . But my manual says to keep the Battery *in* (but power cord out) when moving the jumper from pins 2-3 to 1-2 for the 5-10 secs (then back) when clearing the CMOS . Makes more sense to me, what use in moving jumpers on a board that has *no* power left? -Removing the power cord I understand, no need to get another shock . But removing the battery, are you sure you have read your manual correctly, Blitz? The reason to why I hav'nt tried this yet is that this time I'll ask around and learn from other peoples misstakes instead plunging headlong into them myself :blush: . . BUT please not that I'm not instructing here, I'm just asking if you, or anyone else reading this longish post, already have tried anything similar!	Jros (9745)
427077	2006-02-16 17:29:00	I may be a bit late with this, but there is a jumper setting, i think it is labeled JB1 or something like that (check the book with the motherboard) jumper 1-2 is normal - jumper 2-3 is reset BIOS	TiJay (6055)
427078	2006-02-16 18:36:00	Yes, the jumper settings will vary between different boards. On my P4V800-X it's pins 2-3 on the CLRTC1 jumper that are default, 1-2 are "Clear RTC Ram". Check manuals before jumping. ( :groan: ) Has anyone tried clearing the CMOS with the battery in ??	Jros (9745)
427079	2006-02-16 19:48:00	Yes, the jumper settings will vary between different boards. On my P4V800-X it's pins 2-3 on the CLRTC1 jumper that are default, 1-2 are "Clear RTC Ram". Check manuals before jumping. ( :groan: ) Has anyone tried clearing the CMOS with the battery in ?? Of course you can clear (reset would be a better term) the cmos (settings), with the battery in. You only need to pull the battery out and wait a real long time if there is no cmos clear jumper, button or sometimes they just have two contact points you short out. Quality ocntrol must be slipping at Asus. They only wierd bios update problems I've seen recently is once, a bios update caused the ethernet address of the builtin LAN card to be wrong, but a small util let me fix it.	gibler (49)
427080	2006-02-17 06:31:00	I may be a bit late with this, but there is a jumper setting, i think it is labeled JB1 or something like that (check the book with the motherboard) jumper 1-2 is normal - jumper 2-3 is reset BIOSYeah I've tried that - didn't help... I think the fact that nothing happens when I start up (other than power on and fans), I am guessing that nothing is going to work except a bios replacement (or perhaps a hot-swap) :) Cheers, M.	Midavalo (7253)
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