Le_Murphant Posted June 3, 2007 CID Share Posted June 3, 2007 Hi, I have an asus P5N-E SLI board with a E6600 cpu overclocked to 2700. I wanted to update the bios from version 0401 to 0602 through the EZ-Flash utility but somehow it told me that the "downgraded rom" was not suitable for my system. I tried with other more recent BIOSes which yielded the same result. Then I tried to go through ASUS update through windows, which seemed to work fine. They asked for a reboot and then... no POST. The screen stayed blank for 5 minutes, so I thought I ought to just turn it off and on again to see. Same result. I tried to insert the support CD which is supposed to automatically reinstall a bios. The CD starts spinning, then stops, and nothing. I took out the battery, cleared the cmos, unplugged everything except the power cord, still no POST. I'm kind of wondering what to do now, any ideas? This was the first time I flashed a BIOS, so I might have done something stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 3, 2007 CID Share Posted June 3, 2007 essentially what you are looking at is a dead board. someting went wrong while you were flashing the bios and now the computer does not have its basic i/o system to help it get booted. you will need to find a buddy that has a rom flasher to fix the rom chip you have or purchase a replacement from the board mfr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted June 3, 2007 Author CID Share Posted June 3, 2007 Would a computer vendor like Best Buy have a rom flasher that can fix that? How about maybe a local small computer store? I don't have any friends that I can think of that would have a rom flasher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 3, 2007 CID Share Posted June 3, 2007 don't know how well equipped best buys service departments are. grab the yellow pages, call around. the small shops that do their own repairs and upgrading might have one lying around. (if you have a working comp you can look for plans on the web and build one yourself if you have average electronics skills. they aren't too complex and radio shack should have the parts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted June 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 Once again, go figure. I had let the battery out after I had cleared the cmos, thought that I didn,t need the battery to remember any settings. I plugged it back in and it worked, everything is fine and the bios is updated. I'l know next time. Anyways, thx reso for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 Hmm , I thought the battery was to save your chip settings during the kill process, I wasn't aware it was vital to pre operating system testing or boot . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted June 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 Yeah, thought it was the same, which explains my "go figure". There was no beep, on screen display, no nothing, and now everything works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 the only explanation i can come up with is that you have a dual bios that keeps a safe copy in the second one which is flashed to the prime when power is pulled. or it might be something completely different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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