Asus P4C800-E Deluxe BIOS 1021 update error

A

azn2

Hi,

I downloaded a BIOS new update 1021 three days ago. My mainboard was
1019, I tried to use Asus EZFlash Bios update by hitting ALT + F2
method, insert a floppy disk with P4C800ed.rom (1021). Flashed
successfully. It rebooted, I had received POST messages normally then
later I got a General Protection Fault error on screen with garbled
characters, system hanged. Thanks to Asus CrashFree recovery feature,
I immediately flashed it back to 1019, all works fine after
that....whew! With BIOS 1019, I haven’t got any problems yet. Only
reason I tried to update it to 1021 was its patch to new supported
CPU.

Anyone encountered BIOS update problems with 1021?

My system info:
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Revision 2.00 (BIOS 1019)
1GB DDR333 (512MB x 2) Hynix brand
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (533Mhz)
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB (4x AGP)
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA (SATA 1) not raid.

Azn2
 
R

RBM

If you Google "clintfan" this fellow has an awful lot of info posted
regarding that board. One thing he says is that you can't flash the newer
bios's using the easy flash method. I have version 1011 on by board, and
like you, for no really good reason, flashed mine to 1016. The ez flash was
successful, but the computer didn't recognize my SATA drives or the raid
mirror. I too recovered it back to the original just fine. In the future the
board will have to be dead or seriously disabled before I try that again
 
T

Tom Dauphin

Have to agree - Don't just flash your Bios to flash your Bios. Unless there
is a good reason for updating it, why flash it? If it ain't broke, don't fix
it...
 
F

FairMan

As always I use Asus Update utility now rev. 6.05.01.
Works 100 % for me. Some months ago I flashed to 1021.02. No probs.

azn2 said:
Hi,

I downloaded a BIOS new update 1021 three days ago. My mainboard was
1019, I tried to use Asus EZFlash Bios update by hitting ALT + F2
method, insert a floppy disk with P4C800ed.rom (1021). Flashed
successfully. It rebooted, I had received POST messages normally then
later I got a General Protection Fault error on screen with garbled
characters, system hanged. Thanks to Asus CrashFree recovery feature,
I immediately flashed it back to 1019, all works fine after
that....whew! With BIOS 1019, I haven’t got any problems yet. Only
reason I tried to update it to 1021 was its patch to new supported
CPU.

Anyone encountered BIOS update problems with 1021?

My system info:
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Revision 2.00 (BIOS 1019)
1GB DDR333 (512MB x 2) Hynix brand
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (533Mhz)
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB (4x AGP)
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA (SATA 1) not raid.

Azn2

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M

ModuloNet

Hi,

My system info is
ASUSTeK P4C800-E Deluxe (Intel i875P) Rev.1 >>> BIOS 1010.004
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C GHz Socket 478 0.13 micron FSB800
Corsair TWINX 4x256 Mo DDR-SDRAM PC3200 Low Latency
Western Digital 80 Go 7200T UDMA 100 - WD800JB "Special Edition" x2 in RAID0
ASUSTeK V9950 Ultra/Deluxe 256 Mo

Today, I wanted to install new BIOS 1021 only for new supported CPU +
CT-479.

Using, EZFlash my flash performed successfully, but after reboot my RAID was
not anymore recognize. Thks to BIOS recovery feature I used the original
CD-Rom to come back to previuos BIOS : everything ok and my RAID is back.

Is somebody know details about this new BIOS issue ?

Ciao.
 
A

Andreas Radke

These days the CT-479 arrives to good old Germany. So a lot of people
update their bios to be prepared for the Pentium-M.

It seems that there´s a bug in it so after flashing the mainboard won´t
boot correctly.

It´s not possible to do a warm start or reset. It only comes up after
shutting totally down. But even then a "overclocking failure" occurs and
brings you to the setup. No overclocking. CMOS cleared. No way to get it
working right. Some users don´t have this trouble but a lot have!

Is this already known? And more important: Will it be booting with the
CT-479?

greets
Andreas Radke
 
G

geni

Hi all,

I got a problems when I try to upgrade my bios with the new version
1021,

It's just won't upgarde or downgrade, it's just seem that I stuck old
version.



This is what I see in bios menu :

AMI BIOS

P4CED106 11/08/04 VER 08.00.09



Here is the info that I got from Cpu-Z

Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard model P4C800-E, Rev 1.xx
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision 1020.001
BIOS release date 11/08/2004
Chipset Intel i875P rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 2
Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF


when I try clean boot to upgrade the bios :
with Afudos /i /n /pbnc option

this comes up

error : ROM file size doesnot match existing bios size


when I using the /o option :
this comes up

reading flash
error : out of memory


Here is the chip bios no :
Intel
N82802 AB
Q608 ES
A009007Q



This is some info after running AMI Mobo Utility :

AMIBIOS Motherboard Manufacturer Identification
Version 1.4 (01/12/2004) Copyright 2003 American Megatrends, Inc.

This file has recorded information useful in identifying the
manufacturer
of this motherboard. The information is listed below:

An AMIBIOS ID String Was Detected:
63-2001-000106-00101111-110804-I875P
- ---- ------ ------
| | | |
| | | Chipset/BIOS Info
| | BIOS Build Date
| Manufacturer ID
BIOS ROM Information
AMIBIOS ROM Size: 512 KB
BIOS Build Date: Nov 08 2004
Motherboard Manufacturer Code: 0106 Not listed in MAN.DAT file

AMIBIOS Build Tag: P4CED106
AMIBIOS Project ID: P4CED106 Not listed in TAG.DAT file



Anyone help me please ...

Did I miss something ? or I got a bad bios Chip. :roll: :roll:
:roll: :roll:
 

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