What has Asus done to their mothersboards. On a number of different
Asus motherboards, the BIOS setup (and password) is reset, if the
power is turned off
when booting !!.
This is not very smart as there is always some user that does this,
and we have
to set the BIOS correctly every time. And what about the security of
the bios password, this
makes the whole thing a little silly.

With this kind of "security" anyone can go up to one of our machines,
reset the BIOS by
turning it on and off, insert a boot CD, and just copy the harddisk
data to an USB-Harddisk. And
all this WITHOUT OPENING THE PC-CASE. Totally unaccepttable !!. It
should only be possible
to reset it, using a jumper on the motherboard.

I just don't understand it. If Asus really thinks this helps users out
of trubble when they set
the BIOS wrongly, I think that they have really over done it.
On older boards this did not reset the BIOS setup, it just displayed
the fact that the cpu speed-
setting was wrong (not to smart either, as many users was prompted for
a bios-password,
which they didn't know wht to do about).


Has anyone any input about this


Your battery is dead.

Changing the battery do not change this on any of the boards we tried
it on, besides when NOT turning off, in the described way, this never
happens. At the moment all of our running four A7N8X-VM machines, I
have testet it on, get the BIOS totally reset.

Is there anyone using A7N8X-VM and A7N8X-VM400 motherboards that
can NOT provoke this behaviour ??:

You just switch off the power while the "Checking NVRAM" is
dispalyed and the next time you boot, the BIOS is reset.

The easiest way to test it, is to first disable the "Full screen
logo" in
"Boot settings configuration" and then do the test. If the BIOS is
reset,
the Full screen logo is displayed at boot time.


Bo