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- Feb 20, 2007
Was running an older BIOS for my P5K vanilla. Worked well with the Q6600 that previously was in there. I dont recall the BIOS number but it was release 7/07.
Put in my new E2160, and POST message starts yapping about CPU unrecognized, flash to new BIOS. Ok NP. Download the latest BIOS 0805 released 12/07. Still a beta but I always use the Asus beta BIOS with no probs on other boards so I wasnt worried. Did a quick search here on OCF and didnt see anything in a quickie look.
Flash to new BIOS NP. Reboot. Renognizes E2160. Great.
Start OCing the thing......once I get to 9X400 it starts yapping again about not recognizing the CPU again and I should flash to the latest BIOS. HUH? Version on top of the POST screen appropriately says 0805....wtf? Drop back down to 9X300 for 2.7 Ghz and no probs. Get up to 3.6Ghz and once again......POST telling me CPU unrecongnized.
Ok....so maybe the beta BIOS aint that great. Ill flash to the previous version 0705. Download it. Go to EZ-Flash.......and before I could even read the new BIOS I get a blank light blue screen. I let it stay there like a full 5 mins and kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing.
Reboot.....no POST. Crap.
Clear CMOS manually......No POST again.....Crap again.
So Ive pulled the CMOS battery for the moment, but any ideas???
Looks like the 0805 BIOS is borked, and I likely need a new BIOS chip to me. What do you think?
Put in my new E2160, and POST message starts yapping about CPU unrecognized, flash to new BIOS. Ok NP. Download the latest BIOS 0805 released 12/07. Still a beta but I always use the Asus beta BIOS with no probs on other boards so I wasnt worried. Did a quick search here on OCF and didnt see anything in a quickie look.
Flash to new BIOS NP. Reboot. Renognizes E2160. Great.
Start OCing the thing......once I get to 9X400 it starts yapping again about not recognizing the CPU again and I should flash to the latest BIOS. HUH? Version on top of the POST screen appropriately says 0805....wtf? Drop back down to 9X300 for 2.7 Ghz and no probs. Get up to 3.6Ghz and once again......POST telling me CPU unrecongnized.
Ok....so maybe the beta BIOS aint that great. Ill flash to the previous version 0705. Download it. Go to EZ-Flash.......and before I could even read the new BIOS I get a blank light blue screen. I let it stay there like a full 5 mins and kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing.
Reboot.....no POST. Crap.
Clear CMOS manually......No POST again.....Crap again.
So Ive pulled the CMOS battery for the moment, but any ideas???
Looks like the 0805 BIOS is borked, and I likely need a new BIOS chip to me. What do you think?