P4C800 Deluxe Fried Bios Heeeelp please

[Barney Rubble]

Hello guys and gals.

Basically i have gone and gotton myself into a spot
of bother, i tried to flash the bios of my P4C800 Deluxe
Rev 1.03 from Version 1015 to version 1019 using the Afudos utility
which is where the trouble begins, i cocked up with the
command line entry, so i had to restart the machine removing the
boot floppy, on restart i went to the Asus website where it mentions
an EZ flash utility.

Methinks I'll try doing it that way, so I start the pc holding
down the F2 key to access the ez flash utility, which it duly
did,however I had forgotten to put the floppy back in the drive, ez
flash did something, what I dont Know, however on restarting the pc
all I get is the fans running case and cpu both, with no activity on
the monitor, basically it's not doing any thing.




Question is the bios chip fried or is there a way out of this mess,
without buying a new mobo, new bios chip perhaps.

I was running a
P4 2.8 800 Prescot
P4C800 deluxe
1 Gig ram

 

[Nickeldome]

Hello guys and gals.

Basically i have gone and gotton myself into a spot
of bother, i tried to flash the bios of my P4C800 Deluxe
Rev 1.03 from Version 1015 to version 1019 using the Afudos utility
which is where the trouble begins, i cocked up with the
command line entry, so i had to restart the machine removing the
boot floppy, on restart i went to the Asus website where it mentions
an EZ flash utility.

Methinks I'll try doing it that way, so I start the pc holding
down the F2 key to access the ez flash utility, which it duly
did,however I had forgotten to put the floppy back in the drive, ez
flash did something, what I dont Know, however on restarting the pc
all I get is the fans running case and cpu both, with no activity on
the monitor, basically it's not doing any thing.




Question is the bios chip fried or is there a way out of this mess,
without buying a new mobo, new bios chip perhaps.

I was running a
P4 2.8 800 Prescot
P4C800 deluxe
1 Gig ram

Try to reset the CMOS by taking out the battery and put the jumper
CLRTC on pins 2 and 3 for about 10 seconds. (See manual !).
And don't use EZ Flash anymore.

Nickeldome

 

[Tom Dauphin]

You can recover from a bad flash - See Section 4.1.4 of the manual and how
to use the crash free bios capabilities of this board. If it's just a
corrupted Bios (not a fried chip), you'll see a screen come up on the boot
that says "Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery...Checking for floppy."
If there's no floppy disk in the drive, the system automatically checks the
CD-ROM. If you have the Asus Support CD in the CD-ROM, it will reflash
itself from that with the original Bios. It's all spelled out in that
Section of the manual. If you don't have your hardcopy manual still, you can
download it in Adobe from the Asus web site here:
http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4C800 Deluxe&langs=09

Hope that Helps...