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Recovering from failed BIOS flash on Asus K8V SE Deluxe
I have an Asus K8V SE Deluxe which came with BIOS 1001. After
installing Windows XP SP2 for the third time (and changing to the "AlwaysOff" option for DEP in boot.ini) I downloaded afudos 2.11 and the latest 1004 BIOS. After booting to a floppy and flashing the BIOS which appeared to go OK, when I rebooted ... "System failed due to CPU Overclocking" said the voice. I talked myself out of switching to Fedora Core or OSX for my main box for the fifth time this week, and called Asus to get a trouble ticket. The tech was helpful and patient as I unscrewed the covers off my case. Here is what worked for me: (1) Follow the instructions to clear the clock (RTC RAM) from the manual. Briefly, move the jumper, pop the battery, move the jumper back. Power back up and ... (2) Boot to floppy and reflash the BIOS. (3) Go into the BIOS setup ([Del] key) to fix your boot settings. (4) Reboot. (5) Set the system clock to the current time. Luckily the BIOS was not damaged, and the system boots fine ... the second time. Good luck to anyone else who tried afudos and it hosed their BIOS the first time. |
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I have an Asus K8V SE Deluxe which came with BIOS 1001. After
installing Windows XP SP2 for the third time (and changing to the "AlwaysOff" option for DEP in boot.ini) I downloaded afudos 2.11 and the latest 1004 BIOS. After booting to a floppy and flashing the BIOS which appeared to go OK, when I rebooted ... "System failed due to CPU Overclocking" said the voice. I talked myself out of switching to Fedora Core or OSX for my main box for the fifth time this week, and called Asus to get a trouble ticket. The tech was helpful and patient as I unscrewed the covers off my case. Here is what worked for me: (1) Follow the instructions to clear the clock (RTC RAM) from the manual. Briefly, move the jumper, pop the battery, move the jumper back. Power back up and ... (2) Boot to floppy and reflash the BIOS. (3) Go into the BIOS setup ([Del] key) to fix your boot settings. (4) Reboot. (5) Set the system clock to the current time. Luckily the BIOS was not damaged, and the system boots fine ... the second time. Good luck to anyone else who tried afudos and it hosed their BIOS the first time. I've had this mobo for several months now and it does seem to be occasionally susceptible to bios corruption after a flash, necessitating a ram reset to remedy the problem.. ie. as you found and fixed above. I found that it needs the battery jumper removed for several minutes to clear the cmos to reset it, unlike some mobo's which clears in a few seconds. I assume that putting the battery jumper on pins 2 & 3 as suggested in the book is intended to dissipate any charge in capacitors etc. But IMO its always taken several minutes to effect this. So remove battery jumper and place on 2 & 3 or just leave it off for 10 minutes (go have a cup of tea) always worked for me. Mike |
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