"Bobby" wrote in message
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As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA hard
disk.

So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I used
the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but now
my PC doesn't work at all.

It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This
happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure.

I solved my SATA problem by reverting to my old IDE drive and this
invariably gave me a stable machine - until I did this BIOS update. Now no
mater which drive I try to use (SATA or IDE) I get constant resets. I
tried removing all mention of RAID/SATA/Promise from Control Panel but the
problem persists.

I can't even restore the BIOS to its old settings (I saved an image before
updating it) since the PC resets before I have time to do this.

Now I have an unusable PC.

Help!

Bobby
Ah so these are the motherboard details! When you say the flashing appeared
to work perfectly, how do you know - did a message pop up saying so? The
only Asus boards I've flashed have been using a Win98SE system formatted
disk and a progress bar was shown. At the end I've always reset the BIOS by
doing the shorting the jumper trick for a few minutes (have a read of the
manual) - that's essential, have you done that?

If the machines a new build, what are the PSU details (make/model and power
rating)? FYI often OS's will need to be reinstalled after a BIOS flash -
especially if it involved a disk controller, that's why its always best to
do the job when the drive is still empty.

Paul