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HELP! can't reset P4P800 BIOS
I've had my P4P800 for a little over a week and I decided to upgrade the BIOS to
1010 because whatever version it came with didn't have Turbo mode despite the fact that it was described in the manual. The flash went OK and the system booted normally afterward, but when I rebooted and set Turbo mode to On, not only wouldn't it boot, it wouldn't POST at all. All the fans turn on and the drives all spin up, but it doesn't beep at all and I don't get a video signal. The manual says that the BIOS can be repaired by simply resetting the board after a failure, but the reset button doesn't do it and powering down doesn't do it. I even shut off the standby power with the switch on my power supply. I've tried shutting off all the power, taking the battery out, and moving the jumper to clear the settings, and it still doesn't work. Any more suggestions, or do I need a new board? If I need a new board, do I have to contact ASUS since it wasn't DOA, or should I try the place I bought it first? Here's the rest of the system if it matters: P4C 2.8 GHz, stock cooler ATI All-In-Wonder 7500 (Radeon) 2x512M Kingston ValueRAM (on ASUS's qualified list) Antec TruePower 480W (I have lots of drives) |
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"Jim Shaffer, Jr." wrote in message
... I've had my P4P800 for a little over a week and I decided to upgrade the BIOS to 1010 because whatever version it came with didn't have Turbo mode despite the fact that it was described in the manual. The flash went OK and the system booted normally afterward, but when I rebooted and set Turbo mode to On, not only wouldn't it boot, it wouldn't POST at all. Happens here too, some RAM / CPU combos just don't support it. Actually it makes **** all difference, if you want to turn PAT on go into the Chipset options and set Memory Acceleration Mode to Enable. All you should have to do is power down for a bit and power back it, it should automatically tell you that overclocking failed and to go into BIOS. |
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:39:16 +1100, "Darkfalz"
wrote: All you should have to do is power down for a bit and power back it, it should automatically tell you that overclocking failed and to go into BIOS. No such luck. It was powered down all night (power off, battery removed) and it doesn't start. The thing that's really ****ing me off is that I tried removing the RAM sticks and it beeps to indicate it's got no RAM, so if it's got enough intelligence to do that, why doesn't it have enough intelligence to reset the BIOS like the manual says it's supposed to do? It's not a memory timing issue preventing it from running because it has no memory, so I'm forced to conclude that their BIOS is buggy! |
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"Jim Shaffer, Jr." wrote:
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:39:16 +1100, "Darkfalz" wrote: All you should have to do is power down for a bit and power back it, it should automatically tell you that overclocking failed and to go into BIOS. No such luck. It was powered down all night (power off, battery removed) and it doesn't start. The thing that's really ****ing me off is that I tried removing the RAM sticks and it beeps to indicate it's got no RAM, so if it's got enough intelligence to do that, why doesn't it have enough intelligence to reset the BIOS like the manual says it's supposed to do? It's not a memory timing issue preventing it from running because it has no memory, so I'm forced to conclude that their BIOS is buggy! Can you use the 'Alt-F2' option to reflash the bios? Ed Jay (remove M to respond) |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:26:51 GMT, Ed Jay wrote:
Can you use the 'Alt-F2' option to reflash the bios? I *think* I tried that last night, but I can't swear to it -- I was in a pretty upset state, and tried everything I could think of. Now, the board is no longer in the system -- I put my old one back in -- and I don't have any other ATX systems around to try it. |
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