"Henk J.van Dijk" wrote in message
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Thank you. But if I may ;-) The motherboard (computer) has done it's many
jobs for years in good order (no fake one, only old). On it quite a lot
programs stil very useful to run on this comp, so I stil hope it's to fix.

Pull the motherboard out and examine it to see if it's a fake. Being a Rev
1.04 most likely it is.
The Asus FTP sites have a .pdf about the fake board.
I have one, found a case with a Rev 1.04 motherboard in the dumpster at work
(Hospital).
Also check all the capacitors (with a magnifying glass) looking for bulging
and fluid leakage (tan/brown) at the tops & sides. Go to badcaps.net if
it's ever up again to read all about bad caps and re-capping boards.


The beeps can be anything I pick up from you. I quess then that is is a
bad
capacitor (then it's the end) or a bios flash problem. I wander if those
things can come from a empty battery?

Anyway, the POST stops before the monitor starts. So I can not see
anything.

A known good battery is always a help.
Check CPU & jumpers. The fake board has funky jumper settings.
Try reseating the video card, or a different video card. Reseat memory or
try different SDRAM modules etc.
Maybe a old 2mb PCI video may get it to show post. BIOS sometimes defaults
to PCI at boot thus no video from AGP.

QUESTION, if I may: is it possible to flash the bios again? (Not needed
of
course if it is not possible that a for years good working bios flash go's
wrong.)

BIOS flash gone bad due to it being a fake board and someone trying to force
flash the BIOS with a universal flash program that failed. Do you know the
ownership/histroy of this board?
ASUS offers no BIOS updates for a Rev. 1.04 motherboard. Any other Rev. BIOS
will not work with the standard Award Flash utility. Believe me I've tried
them all.

If a possible solution, can you (or somebody else) give me a place to
figure
out the correct flasher and bios version?

Google is your friend. Or enemy in this case.

Again don't waste your time on a fake board. Find a ASUS P2B-F,L,N,S etc.
motherboard and swap over all your components.
I have several P2B-F's (another find during a storeroom cleanout) just make
sure you eyeball the caps closely if you plan on spending $$$ on one.


Thanks for any help.

With kind regards, Henk


Note: Most likely the P2B Rev. 1.04 motherboard was a flawed production run
that was scrapped and someone salvaged the lot and re-sold them.

Good Luck!