Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Problem

[Aqa]

Can I flash the bios without a cpu in it? I have a A64 3500+ that asus says
won't work without a flash for this motherboard as it is so "old". What
happens right now is my moniter won't fire up with this processor inside. Is
this because the bios checks to see if there is a processor and if not,
stops booting?

 

[Wes Newell]

Can I flash the bios without a cpu in it? I have a A64 3500+ that asus says
won't work without a flash for this motherboard as it is so "old". What
happens right now is my moniter won't fire up with this processor inside. Is
this because the bios checks to see if there is a processor and if not,
stops booting?

Can you drive your car without an engine?

 

[Skybuck Flying]

Can I flash the bios without a cpu in it? I have a A64 3500+ that asus
says won't work without a flash for this motherboard as it is so "old".
What happens right now is my moniter won't fire up with this processor
inside. Is this because the bios checks to see if there is a processor and
if not, stops booting?

That sucks doesn't it.

Hopefully in the future motherboards have a little hopefully cheap chip
which allows one to boot or at least flash the bios from a floppy drive or
something

By the way... asus has crash free bios... not sure if your board has it... I
wonder what that is... it probably needs a processor as well... so no go
there.

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Mitch Crane]

That sucks doesn't it.

Hopefully in the future motherboards have a little hopefully cheap
chip which allows one to boot or at least flash the bios from a
floppy drive or something

Probably not. How about a BIOS on an SD card?

 

[Carlo Razzeto]

By the way... asus has crash free bios... not sure if your board has it...
I wonder what that is... it probably needs a processor as well... so no go
there.

Bye,
Skybuck.

It should

 

[DanHayes]

try clearing cmos via jumper do not set any bios settings if it will post
then you might be able to update bios... this worked on my asus a8n32-sli
deluxe...

 

[Paul]

Can I flash the bios without a cpu in it? I have a A64 3500+ that asus says
won't work without a flash for this motherboard as it is so "old". What
happens right now is my moniter won't fire up with this processor inside. Is
this because the bios checks to see if there is a processor and if not,
stops booting?

Did you plug in the ATX12V 2x2 square power plug ?

Have you tried using just one stick of RAM ? Try moving the stick of
RAM around. Maybe slot B1 will work.

Check the BIOS release number printed on the paper label on the socketed
flash chip. Then check the CPU support page on the Asus site, to see if
it is recent enough. For example, if you bought an E4 stepping CPU,
that might be troublesome.

http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusuppo...1&name=A8N-SLI Deluxe&SLanguage=en-us&cache=1

CPU Since PCB Since BIOS Note

Athlon 64 3500+ (CG version) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.D) (Socket939) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.E3) (Socket939) ALL 1007
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.E4) (Socket939) ALL 1015.005
Athlon 64 3500+ (rev.E6) (Socket939) ALL 1013

Yes, you need a CPU to flash the BIOS. Or, you can contact badflash.com
and get a new flash chip (programmed with the BIOS you want) for $25.
But Asus Tech Support should also have an option to help you out.
Check to see if there is a cheaper alternative.

Paul

 

[Aqa]

Thanks for the help. I'll try the 3500 once more and if it doesn't work,
I'll have to get a 3200.

 

[DaveW]

You HAVE to have a CPU in the motherboard to flash the BIOS.