It wasn't broke, so i fixed it

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

Ok, system:

We got ourselves a hot and juicy E6600 smothered in 2gigs (2x1gig) of ram capable of running at PC6400 5-5-5-5-12 (corsair xms2) all on a plate of Asus p5b

K, anyways.

So i had been running it at 3.6ghz (9x400) for almost a year. The thing is is that i've never actually sat down and really given it a good run over. I just got it and it ran at 3.6 so i left it that way. Well, the other day i took my comptuer completely apart and reorganized, cleaned etc.

I replied thermal paste to my CPU, put some on my video card HS (that fixed THAT problem) and some on the northbridge (also added a pretty sweet little fan to that HS).

Booted it up and temps all around were down, i got the grand idea to funk with things.

So i installed the newest BIOS from asus (1801). Well, that was moronic. It wont even pass P95 at 3.5ghz now and I'm having all sorts of problems with it booting when overclocked.

I looked the bios up online and a lot of people wern't happy with it. Now it's not even on the website (they replaced it with a beta version, which is no better).

I'd like to revert back to an older version but am at a complete loss at how to do this.

Automata · Dec 3, 2007

Did you do a google search to see if you can find the older version? Maybe a user has it still?

Did you check their FTP site to see if it is still there?

One Bull · Dec 3, 2007

Well you can usually get old bioses from teh asus website, then you just do with thta bios what you did with your previous bios update.

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

thideras said:
Did you do a google search to see if you can find the older version? Maybe a user has it still?

Did you check their FTP site to see if it is still there?

I guess i should have clarified. Asus actually keeps all the old ones up on their site, you just can't revert back from what i can tell.

The update software wont let me, nor will EZflash

Automata · Dec 3, 2007

eye of the hawk said:
I guess i should have clarified. Asus actually keeps all the old ones up on their site, you just can't revert back from what i can tell.

The update software wont let me, nor will EZflash

You have to use the floppy to roll back

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

thideras said:
You have to use the floppy to roll back

And if you don't have a floppy drive? :bang head

Drinkyoghurt · Dec 3, 2007

use a usb flash drive

here's how to

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

Fantastic!

I shall try as soon as i get home.

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

I'm kind of lost...how the heck do i get the computer to boot up DOS from the drive?

I'm told the p5B can...but umm, yeah.

Automata · Dec 3, 2007

eye of the hawk said:
I'm kind of lost...how the heck do i get the computer to boot up DOS from the drive?

I'm told the p5B can...but umm, yeah.

You will have to tell it to boot from the floppy or from removable devices or even sometimes it might be labeled as "Boot to USB" if your lucky :beer:

Evilsizer · Dec 3, 2007

or just burn the ROM file to a cd,then on boot up hit alt+f2 to start the built awardflash bios update software.

eye of the hawk · Dec 3, 2007

Evilsizer said:
or just burn the ROM file to a cd,then on boot up hit alt+f2 to start the built awardflash bios update software.

awardflash wont let me revert back either :bang head

Can't i just make a bootable CD and use asudos (which is what i'm told is the only way i'll be able to revert back to an older bios)?

Is there a reason it has to be an emulated floppy disk (or a real one)?

w2richwood · Dec 3, 2007

i used two floppys one with dos boot disk then a disk with afudos 2.11 and bios renamed for your board
Rich

Automata · Dec 3, 2007

eye of the hawk said:
awardflash wont let me revert back either

Can't i just make a bootable CD and use asudos (which is what i'm told is the only way i'll be able to revert back to an older bios)?

Is there a reason it has to be an emulated floppy disk (or a real one)?

There will be a "force" flag that you need to do. Look up with that exe can do, example:

programname.exe /?

That will give the help list (may be -h or -help), it will list all the commands that you can give it.

eye of the hawk · Dec 4, 2007

thideras said:
There will be a "force" flag that you need to do. Look up with that exe can do, example:

programname.exe /?

That will give the help list (may be -h or -help), it will list all the commands that you can give it.

I'm not really sure what you're referring to. awardflash doesn't run in DOS.

I'm clueless right now.

I figured out why my PC wouldn't boot from the USB drive, i had to make the USB drive the 1st removable drive in the bios (hidden under 3 layers of submenus...)

Now that i did that the computer tries to boot from it but then i'm told that it can't read the disk.

I've tried formating in FAT, FAT 16, FAT 32...nothing seems to work
I've tried two different storage devices...everything. I'm at a loss.

Automata · Dec 4, 2007

eye of the hawk said:
I'm not really sure what you're referring to. awardflash doesn't run in DOS.

I'm clueless right now.

I figured out why my PC wouldn't boot from the USB drive, i had to make the USB drive the 1st removable drive in the bios (hidden under 3 layers of submenus...)

Now that i did that the computer tries to boot from it but then i'm told that it can't read the disk.

I've tried formating in FAT, FAT 16, FAT 32...nothing seems to work
I've tried two different storage devices...everything. I'm at a loss.

You need the program to flash it from dos

Then you will be able to roll it back.

eye of the hawk · Dec 4, 2007

I know. The problem is getting into DOS.

Automata · Dec 4, 2007

eye of the hawk said:
I know. The problem is getting into DOS.

Start | My Computer

Insert floppy

Right click the floppy drive | Format | Select bootable floppy (can't remember, no floppy drive >.<).

eye of the hawk · Dec 4, 2007

d94 · Dec 4, 2007

heres how ya make a usb drive bootable ~ http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

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