BIOS PROBLEM (Self Inflicted)

[Don Mahony]

Help!

I have an ASUS P4T-E with a 1.5 GHz P4 and wanted to upgrade to a 2.4A GHz.
I needed to upgrade the bios from 1003 to 1006 to be able to use this new
CPU. I got the latest AFLASH.EXE and bios from the ASUS website and
proceeded to install the new bios after saving the old one and was rewarded
with a sucessful upgrade notice. When I powered up again the board would not
POST. As a matter of fact it would do nothing except make a ticking noise in
the PC speaker. I have obviously loaded the wrong bios. :-(

Has anyone got any solutions that I could try? ASUS tech support said to
short out the CLRTC solder points to reset the bios bu this did not change
anything. I hate to throw out this perfectly good board for the sake of a
bad bios.

Thanks in advance.

Don

 

[chris]

Help!

I have an ASUS P4T-E with a 1.5 GHz P4 and wanted to upgrade to a 2.4A GHz.
I needed to upgrade the bios from 1003 to 1006 to be able to use this new
CPU. I got the latest AFLASH.EXE and bios from the ASUS website and
proceeded to install the new bios after saving the old one and was rewarded
with a sucessful upgrade notice. When I powered up again the board would not
POST. As a matter of fact it would do nothing except make a ticking noise in
the PC speaker. I have obviously loaded the wrong bios. :-(

Has anyone got any solutions that I could try? ASUS tech support said to
short out the CLRTC solder points to reset the bios bu this did not change
anything. I hate to throw out this perfectly good board for the sake of a
bad bios.

Thanks in advance.

Don

Don,
I recently had this problem when I upgraded my bios on an A7V. Aflash
reported a good bios flash but when I rebooted - nothing. I tried moving
the cmos jumper and removing the psu lead - nothing. I thought I was going
to have to get a new bios chip. Which I ordered, and now is a spare!!
The last thing I tried was to;
1) remove psu lead
2) place cmos jumper on clear
3) REMOVE the cmos battery

4) I left it like this for 1 HOUR!

5) moved cmos jumper to normal position
6) replaced cmos battery
7) plugged back in and fired it up
8) immediately went into bios and loaded default settings, made sure
that I SAVED SETTINGS and exited
9) on second bootup I changed a few things

I think it was the fact that I left it for an hour that fully discharged
the cmos. Do you have access to another pc? There may be another way!!!

hope this helps, best regards

chris

 

[Don Mahony]

Thanks for the info Chris. I presume the PSU lead is the power supply one so
I have disconnected all power leads and the battery and will let it sit for
a couple of hours. The shorting terminals are only solder points so I cannot
hold something on them for that time but will short them out ocassionally
during the period.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Don

 

[Don Mahony]

Wally,

Was that on a P4T-E board because the bios chip does not look like it is
removeable.

Don

 

[Barry Watzman]

First off, if you really burned the wrong BIOS, and if that is your
problem (some "wrong" BIOS' will totally kill the board, others won't),
then clearing CMOS won't help.

But if CMOS is the issue, to clear it, the battery must be removed, and
the power supply must be truly off (either unplugged or turned off with
the REAR switch, or probably best of all, disconnected). THEN short the
clear CMOS jumpers for a few seconds (not "instantaneously", but it
doesn't need to be an hour like someone else suggested).

If a flash of the wrong BIOS did kill your board, you have a couple of
options, you can get a new BIOS chip from Asus or "www.badflash.com" or
other sources, or if you have access to a good one, you can try a
"hotflash", essentially changing the chip with the power on. [It's
dangerous but done carefully it does work.]

Don't trash the board, you can always sell it on E-Bay. Also, you might
view this as an "opportunity" to upgrade to a board that supports 533
MHz FSB (or even 800 MHz), although that also means new memory and CPU
as well. The P4T-E was a good motherboard, but a bit dated at this point.

 

[Darkfalz]

Help!

I have an ASUS P4T-E with a 1.5 GHz P4 and wanted to upgrade to a 2.4A GHz.
I needed to upgrade the bios from 1003 to 1006 to be able to use this new
CPU. I got the latest AFLASH.EXE and bios from the ASUS website and
proceeded to install the new bios after saving the old one and was rewarded
with a sucessful upgrade notice. When I powered up again the board would not
POST. As a matter of fact it would do nothing except make a ticking noise in
the PC speaker. I have obviously loaded the wrong bios. :-(

Has anyone got any solutions that I could try? ASUS tech support said to
short out the CLRTC solder points to reset the bios bu this did not change
anything. I hate to throw out this perfectly good board for the sake of a
bad bios.

Thanks in advance.

You're ****ed.

 

[Jens Baumann]

Help!

I have an ASUS P4T-E with a 1.5 GHz P4 and wanted to upgrade to a 2.4A GHz.
I needed to upgrade the bios from 1003 to 1006 to be able to use this new
CPU. I got the latest AFLASH.EXE and bios from the ASUS website and
proceeded to install the new bios after saving the old one and was rewarded
with a sucessful upgrade notice. When I powered up again the board would not
POST. As a matter of fact it would do nothing except make a ticking noise in
the PC speaker. I have obviously loaded the wrong bios. :-(

Has anyone got any solutions that I could try? ASUS tech support said to
short out the CLRTC solder points to reset the bios bu this did not change
anything. I hate to throw out this perfectly good board for the sake of a
bad bios.

If you're willing to spend some money (less than for a new board, but
still...), you can get a bios chip with the correct bios for your board
at the official ASUS accessory shop here: http://asus.alternate.de/

A new chip is 19.90 Euro plus shipping. I don't know whether there is a
shop in the US, too. Have not found any link on the US website. If you
want to buy a new chip, make sure that the chip on your board is in a
socket and not soldered.