Thread: BIOS corrupt?

Ive no specific knowledge of that particular motherboard but Im fairly certain it wont have a corrupt bios.

Much more likely that he has got one of (or more) of the following set wrong:
- Clock frequency
- Clock multiplier
- Core voltage
- memory type / bus speed

I suspect there will be a "fail safe" option in the bios that he could select and get up and running again. If he cant get into the bios to alter it then there is probably something in the manual that allows for a hardware bios reset (usually set a jumper and then power cycle, then remove the jumper etc).

J

get him to ring asus , they have a office in every state , is the memory the only thing he has added to the m/b

power or memory (on mb and video card) would be my first two areas of investigation.

sounds like faulty RAM

am getting the case to play with over the weekend,, will swap a few things around off mine.

I have the 4X2gb sticks of 1066ddr2 it runs,,

as luck would have it,, my MB can (on paper--) run that, so will play swap the module tonight--

well that was interesting---

The first start with one 2gb stick (in slot 1) actually got to windows then hung,,
the next couple gave me a "could not find operating system" directly after "verifying data pool"
so I stuck my ram back in--
same error--
after a bit of fiddling its seems it turned off my raid, and changed HD start priority,,

it seems to give random errors,,
on first start up this morning,

"unknown cpu detected. updating Bios"
Press F1 to resume

and then "times out" sort of---
I've had 3 goes at changing stuff in the bios(and the screen at all times is bad)
each time it shuts down of its own accord,, the last time on the instant of pressing F10. (didnt reach F10 previously--)

one bios message said "overclocking had failed" but not WHAT was overclocked,, the cpu is running at around 2.6 and is an intel core-2 quad core,, so should be about right??

cpu fan is running, vgu fan is running,

I managed to reset all speed options to Auto,, I think--

Its an American Megatrends Bios,
never seen one before--

The PSU is brand new and of good quality-- $180

The video card is a dual slot HUGE box thing,, dual core 1GB of ram,,

all the power cords are in place,
no beeps of any kind during start,,

ok,, video card replaced,,
grapics good!

it does time out!
searching for ATA devices--

funnily enough, the sata HDD is recognised in the bios--

but cannot be found to start windows--

which seems to be my last problem,,
oh, maybe i should swap the ram back first,,,,