I had to install a floppy drive into my setup then boot to a floppy and
using the dos utility flashed back to the previous bios 1006. I can now
boot my machine into Windows!

I would caution anyone updating to bios 1007 and perhaps wait for a later
bios.

Thanks,
Shane
"John Hollingsworth" wrote in message
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In article ,
(no spam) wrote:

You're right about bios 1007. I removed the battery and was able to
reboot. Problem is that the bios will not save and the problem repeats
itself and I have to again remove the battery to get something on the
screen. I don't have a boot floppy installed and I need at least some
function in the bios to boot to the Asus installation CD to reinstall
an earlier bios. I have to go out now so I will have to come back to
this later.
Using a different computer to type this of course.

Shane
"Ritchie Stephenson"
wrote in message ...
I had a similar problem to yours after upgrading my A8V with BIOS
1007, dame thing wouldn't switch on. I removed the cmos battery, left
it out for a couple of minutes, re-installed it and bingo, all working
again except I needed to reset all my BIOS settings.
Give that a try.

"no spam" wrote in message
u...
Hello,

I have an Athlon64 3500+ on an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard. Also
in the setup is 2X512mg of ram, an ATI X800Pro graphics card, one
sata 10k Raptor configured as the boot drive, two Sata 160gig
Seagate drive striped as RAID 0, one LG 4120b DVD burner and one
Samsung Combo drive.

I recently put this system together and it seemed to run ok without
much problem. However, I did think the CPU temps were a bit high -
up 59c doing DivX encoding. When I tried to boot the sytem up this
morning there was nothing reporting in the boot mode, nothing on the
screen and no beep. The hard drive light remained on and that was
it. I took of the back, all fans seemed be be working however,
still no boot.

I did upgrade to the latest bios a couple of days ago so I don't
know if this has anything to do with it. I thought that if it was
hard drive problems at least I'd be getting an initial report in the
bios screen.

Any suggestions on what could be the problem?

Thanks,
Shane







I've had no problems with upgrading to 1007. Although it hasn't met the
claim that it stops problems with USB card readers on my set up.

John

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