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BIOS update problem
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 |
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"Bobby" wrote in message ...
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! http://www.badflash.com -- Bob Day |
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"Bobby" wrote in message
... 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 |
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"Paul Murphy" wrote in message
... "Bobby" wrote in message ... 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 Oh and there's a downloadable manual for your board he http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock..._se_deluxe.pdf It contains good news - please read it *all* and lots will be made clearer (especially the part about BIOS recovery - for peace of mind). Paul |
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Bobby, I hate to be a pessemist, but at the rate you are going I suggest you box
everything up and take it to a proffesional before you really fry something.... Bobby wrote: 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 |
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:56:02 +0100, "Bobby"
wrote: 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. The odds of a bad flash using an update tool are MUCH higher than just using the traditional update from a DOS boot floppy. For this reason I suggest never to flash any other way. Just because it works once or on another board doesn't mean it's guaranteed to work that "next" time. It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure. Did you enter bios and load setup defaults? Try clearing CMOS too. You're lucky it boots at all, but did you save a copy of the original bios? It would be better to reflash the known-good version you were using first to get system back to state it was in first, before trying some other method to flash the bios which (can't even be known to work regardless of flash method, yet). 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. Whatever drive you installed XP on, you should leave that drive as boot drive and in same IDE and/or SATA position as it started out, until you get this resolved. 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. What do you mean you can't restore it? If you saved the bios and/or have another copy of it (for example, downloaded from manufacturer) simply boot to DOS floppy and reflash the known good bios, then load BIOS defaults in the bios menus and/or clear cmos, finally making any changes you needed per your specific parts, like raising the FSB per CPU if applicable, etc. |
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"Bobby" wrote in message
... 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 OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ? --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from http://www.shemes.com/ =- |
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If all else fails, contact these folks:
http://www.badflash.com/flashprep.html "prankster" wrote in message ... "Bobby" wrote in message ... 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 OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ? --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from http://www.shemes.com/ =- |
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Paul - The BIOS software does have a facility for recovering a corrupt
BIOS - but my BIOS is not corrupt. My PC boots OK - well, OK for 2 minutes before it resets. So the repair facility does not work for me. I think that something went wrong with my BIOS upgrade since neither my new nor old hard drives now work correctly (I'm getting constant resets and BSDs using either drive). So I plan to reload my old BIOS. Bobby "Paul Murphy" wrote in message ... "Bobby" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Hi Kony. Thanks for trying to help.
The odds of a bad flash using an update tool are MUCH higher than just using the traditional update from a DOS boot floppy. For this reason I suggest never to flash any other way. Just because it works once or on another board doesn't mean it's guaranteed to work that "next" time. I now think that the flash was bad - in spite of appearing to work. See my latest post ("SATA saga") for the latest position. Did you enter bios and load setup defaults? Try clearing CMOS too. You're lucky it boots at all, but did you save a copy of the original bios? It would be better to reflash the known-good version you were using first to get system back to state it was in first, before trying some other method to flash the bios which (can't even be known to work regardless of flash method, yet). I saved my original BIOS on my SATA hard drive - which I now can't access. I now plan to download a fresh copy of the BIOS from the Asus website. |
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