ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe Driver CD Wanted - BIOS corrupted - HELP

[b_deshi]

Hi my BIOS on the motherboard has been corrupted. I don't have the
driver CD. I can't recover without it, as I also do not have a floppy
drive on the computer.

Anyone willing to offer me a copy and I would be happy to pay for
costs.

Any help or suggestion would be grateful.

Thanks

deshi

 

[Paul]

Hi my BIOS on the motherboard has been corrupted. I don't have the
driver CD. I can't recover without it, as I also do not have a floppy
drive on the computer.

Anyone willing to offer me a copy and I would be happy to pay for
costs.

Any help or suggestion would be grateful.

Thanks

deshi

Pop out the chip with the yellow label in this picture.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/mainboards/asus-p4p800e/board-s.jpg

Purchase a replacement chip, programmed with the BIOS you want,
from badflash.com ($30). Using this method, no CD is needed, and
the odds the fix will work are very good.

The thing is, even if you prepare a CD yourself, with the P4P800-E
Deluxe BIOS at the root level of the CD, there is no guarantee that
the boot block of the BIOS is still alive. If the BIOS is not attempting
to find the CD, to do a recovery, having the disc in your hand will
not help.

The structure for the CD is not difficult. This is the CD for
my P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard (M370). It has eight different BIOS
files at the top level of the CD. All you have to do
is copy a BIOS file to a blank CD, with the proper name
and extension. You can prepare your own CD, with only
one file on it, and that should work. At least, as long
as the boot block of the BIOS still loads and works.

DIR E:\

08/28/2003 10:03 PM 524,288 P4C800B.ROM
04/10/2003 12:40 AM 524,288 P4C800E.rom
08/28/2003 10:04 PM 524,288 P4C800ED.ROM
09/08/2003 05:09 AM 524,288 P4P800SE.ROM
07/21/2003 10:42 PM 524,288 P4P8X.ROM
10/26/2003 10:44 PM 524,288 P4P8XSE.ROM
08/28/2003 10:02 PM 524,288 p4c800.rom
08/24/2003 10:38 PM 524,288 p4p800.rom

Asus operates a store in North America. The P4P800-E Deluxe
CD is item M379. But this does not solve the problem for
people who live elsewhere. If you have a friend in
North America, they could send it to you. On occasion,
there are also sellers on Ebay, who sell copies of
motherboard CDs.

http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1389&catid=235

Paul

 

[b_deshi]

Pop out the chip with the yellow label in this picture.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/mainboards/asus-p4p800e/board-s.jpg

Purchase a replacement chip, programmed with the BIOS you want,
from badflash.com ($30). Using this method, no CD is needed, and
the odds the fix will work are very good.

The thing is, even if you prepare a CD yourself, with theP4P800-E
Deluxe BIOS at the root level of the CD, there is no guarantee that
the boot block of the BIOS is still alive. If the BIOS is not attempting
to find the CD, to do a recovery, having the disc in your hand will
not help.

The structure for the CD is not difficult. This is the CD for
my P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard (M370). It has eight different BIOS
files at the top level of the CD. All you have to do
is copy a BIOS file to a blank CD, with the proper name
and extension. You can prepare your own CD, with only
one file on it, and that should work. At least, as long
as the boot block of the BIOS still loads and works.

DIR E:\

08/28/2003  10:03 PM           524,288 P4C800B.ROM
04/10/2003  12:40 AM           524,288 P4C800E.rom
08/28/2003  10:04 PM           524,288 P4C800ED.ROM
09/08/2003  05:09 AM           524,288 P4P800SE.ROM
07/21/2003  10:42 PM           524,288 P4P8X.ROM
10/26/2003  10:44 PM           524,288 P4P8XSE.ROM
08/28/2003  10:02 PM           524,288 p4c800.rom
08/24/2003  10:38 PM           524,288p4p800.rom

Asus operates a store in North America. TheP4P800-E Deluxe
CD is item M379. But this does not solve the problem for
people who live elsewhere. If you have a friend in
North America, they could send it to you. On occasion,
there are also sellers on Ebay, who sell copies of
motherboard CDs.

http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1389&catid=235

    Paul

Hi Paul thanks for the quick response.

The pc does boot and the BIOS recovery software looks for the recovery
software by checking the Floppy and DVD drives.

Is there any way I can make a simple boot cd to load with the new BIOS
software on the CD.

Thanks

deshi

 

[GMAN]

Hi my BIOS on the motherboard has been corrupted. I don't have the
driver CD. I can't recover without it, as I also do not have a floppy
drive on the computer.

Anyone willing to offer me a copy and I would be happy to pay for
costs.

Any help or suggestion would be grateful.

Thanks

deshi

I have the P4P800 Deluxe , but not the -E version. I believe the only
difference is the 8 channel audio. The rest of the motherboard, including the
bios would work , at least to get you recovered to a working bios, and then
you could flash with the -E version.

Let me know and i can drop you a copy.

 

[Paul]

Hi Paul thanks for the quick response.

The pc does boot and the BIOS recovery software looks for the recovery
software by checking the Floppy and DVD drives.

Is there any way I can make a simple boot cd to load with the new BIOS
software on the CD.

Thanks

deshi

You can find free burning software.

See "Freeware" "Windows" here for a list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_authoring_software

WinXP also has the ability to transfer a file to the CD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/bridgman_august13.mspx

"THE INBUILT SYSTEM IN WINDOWS XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Copy one file to the CD, "P4P800-E.ROM". If you downloaded a BIOS
from Asus for example, rename the file such that it is P4P800-E.ROM.
Verify the size is correct (524288 bytes). Note that some unzipping
tools are too aggressive - if you see a 128KB file, don't use it.
Check why the file is not 524288 bytes.

For example, say I download this BIOS.

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4P800-E DX/P4P8E009.zip

Unzip that file. The resulting file is P4P8E009.rom. The size is 524288
bytes. Rename the file to P4P800-E.ROM . Then write the file to a
blank CD.

*******

One other word of caution. When you see

"Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery..."

that does not necessarily mean the BIOS is corrupted!
(If you were flashing the BIOS earlier, and the flash operation
failed to complete, then yes, the symptoms would be consistent
with a need to use CrashFree2 BIOS recovery procedure. Go ahead
and insert your CD with the BIOS file on it.)

But in some cases, these symptoms are caused by overclocking.
Say you have made no changes recently to the BIOS stored in
the EEPROM. Then, you decide to overclock your computer. If
you manage to raise the PCI clock frequency high enough,
it may prevent the EEPROM from being read in an error free
manner. (The 33MHz PCI clock, may be used as the clock source
for the BIOS chip.) If this happens, the right answer is *not*
to insert the CD right away. But *only* do the following, if
you were overclocking just before this happened.

1) Clear the CMOS, using CLRTC jumper. See section 2.6 of the
downloadable user manual. Always remember to unplug the
computer, as the first step. Then you can follow the rest
of the steps in the manual. The purpose of clearing the
CMOS, is to get the clocks back to the nominal frequency (33MHz).

2) Now, power up and see if the complaint about Bad BIOS checksum
is gone or not.

3) If it still asks for the CD, then insert the new CD with the
BIOS file on it.

The thing is, you should not attempt to flash the BIOS while
the computer is overclocked and unstable. If you insert the
CD with the file, and the computer is unstable, the entire
BIOS could be corrupted, and then you lose the ability
to attempt another recovery with CrashFree2 feature.

So consider carefully, how you arrived at your current
situation. If the computer is not overclocked in an
aggressive manner, and the reason the checksum is corrupt,
is because of your attempt to update the BIOS, then
inserting a new CD with "P4P800-E.ROM" makes sense.

HTH,
Paul

 

[andy]

Hi Paul thanks for the quick response.

The pc does boot and the BIOS recovery software looks for the recovery
software by checking the Floppy and DVD drives.

Is there any way I can make a simple boot cd to load with the new BIOS
software on the CD.

Download the bios file from the Asus website, and extract it from the
zip file. If you don't know what to name it, make eight copies and
give them the names shown above. Burn the files to a CD.

 

[b_deshi]

I have the P4P800 Deluxe  , but not the -E version. I believe the only
difference is the 8 channel audio. The rest of the motherboard, includingthe
bios would work , at least to get you recovered to a working bios, and then
you could flash with the -E version.

Let me know and i can drop you a copy.

Hi GMAN,

that would be very helpful.

Can you send it to me.

Thanks