Yeah, it's a known defect. From what I've seen Asus support is, or at least
was the last time I looked basically was "hey we have a forum and you can
see if another user was able to fix your problem". Support?
For future reference, I have a habit of writing down specs and such when I
build a new system and then updating it little by little.
It started a long time ago with the CPU model number (you're never going to
pull the HS/fan and clean the CPU just to get a model number) and by now it's huge.
It ended up being one big text file updated occasionally.
Dual SCSI controllers; model numbers, manufacturers, firmware revisions,
settings, mode pages, serial numbers...
Drives? I have 10; model numbers, firmware, spindle speed, buffer size, internal and
external transfer speeds, SCSI ID numbers, bus bandwidth, etc, etc....
RAM? Everything from ratios, voltage, timings, model, all the way down to
the serial numbers on the chips on the PCB.
Work on it a little at a time as it's a bitch to start from scratch.
Makes a nice reference for ya too.
Besides, next time they get shitty with you, bury them with a ¼meg text file.
They won't ask again....
Sorry guy but flashing the BIOS isn't going to get the fan header back.
How are you with a digital probe, multimeter, and soldering iron?
If flashing the BIOS scares ya (yes, it can), there are a couple Reliable
ways to minimize the danger. You can nail down your BIOS chip and if
it's socketed you can order a chip, flashed with whatever BIOS you like
from several venders on Ebay as a backup.
You can also install a Bios Savior for pretty cheap. It has an interface
between your Bios chip socket and the bios chip, and a cable to a dip
switch installed on a.... whatzzit? backplane slot cover. If your flash doesn't
take, you flip the dip switch and it boots from the old bios chip.
Also, flashing the bios, if you don't have a backup physical chip, FIRST use
the flash util to BACKUP the bios already on the chip to a floppy.
If it won't backup the present bios, GET OUT, something is already wrong.
DON'T go on to try and flash the bios in that case.
If you flash the bios and get an error message, DON'T reboot!
You may never see anything on that system again. CONTINUE to flash
several times until you get a successful flash. If you can't, flash back the
backup original bios from floppy. Also, write everything down including the
name of the backed up .bin file. Your very minimal bios flash boot may not
let you browse around looking for the name of the file you backed up on the
floppy. For that matter, you had better write down the name of the NEW bios
..bin file on the floppy before you boot to flash the bios.
Asus has a util that is supposed to flash your BIOS EEPROM from inside
windows. I did it once but is was scarey. It goes against my instincts....
We won't even get into hot flashing. It involves pulling the bios EEPROM
While The System Is Booted, putting in another IC and flashing that one.
It's more of a last ditch effort to fix a crashed flash and it's very.... chancy...
And yes (if you're wondering), I run a modified (hacked) BIOS.
It gets me around several Asus bios "features" that seem to want to make
my decisions for me.
As for all the wires in the case, I sheathed(loomed) mine with expandable
black sheathing. It's a PITA to do them all but looks real nice. You can
also run a lot of the smaller wires behind the motherboard. Let's face facts,
running a single fan RPM sensor cable behind the MB to pop up on one side
of the MB to connect to the 3pin connector.... how much cable are you going
to see? Maybe an inch; the fan connectors are usually very close to the side
of the MB. Depending on the number of your drives, you can also fold and
route the IDE cable and floppy cable behind the MB or at least on the other
side of the drive cages and pop it out to connect to the drives. Makes for
better airflow and a cleaner case. I, of course, have too many drives
connected to be able to do that tho I do have a round floppy cable that makes
for very easy routing. There are also round IDE cables. They're all in a
variety of colors.
Here's the original site. It appears to still have everything.
http://mitglied.lycos.de/Juggernaut/
Here is where it moved to.
http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/
Good site(s) very knowledgable and responsive forums too.
Overlord: Yah, I got the Asus A7V266-C board! I guess that these pins
just crap out and Asus knows about it and are not telling!
I found out that Asus got the worst Tech. (non) Support that I have ever
run into!
Four requests for support (in this case) and all I got, after telling
them the life history of my PC, I get an answer back, telling me that I
did not furnished all the info that they need, about my whole system (I
did not mention the CDRW manufacturer and the HDD spec's.!)- this was
Friday pm, that I requested the last "help", from them! I revised my
"help case" profile and sent it back to them I've heired nothing since!
(Almost as bad as ATI!)
Well, this has been going on for some weeks now and I don't expect any
help from Asus, at this point! that's why I posted here!
Yah- I know that I can get things to indicate the rpm part of the fans,
but who hell wants to have all the damned wires running all ower the
inside of the case!?
I'm interested in monitoring the temp. I was thinking about
flashing the BIOS and see if that would get the MoBo power back to the
pins, but I don't want to screw will a BIOS flash, unless it is really a
emergency!
BTW!- What forum did you go to, in order to find out about this problem?
Thanks for you feed back.
BN
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