[Jamaro85]

Guys, I need help on this one. I am relatively unexperienced and have no idea what to do.

First off, I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe AGP.

Basically my PC will power on but not boot up to a BIOS, or anything. Here is why it happened:

I was having troubles with their newest final BIOS revision; I oftentimes could not access the BIOS as the keyboard would not become enabled upon turning on my machine until after the BIOS prompting screen.

This led me to try out their newest beta BIOS. First though, I tried to update my BIOS using their online BIOS updating software (absolutely useless). This would detect that there is a newer BIOS for my PC but when attempting to DL the BIOS it would tell me 'file cannot be found'.

So anyway, I then tried to flash the BIOS using this same software as it allows you to flash with an existing BIOS if you have the file already, which I did. It successfully wiped and flashed my current BIOS, but then it got to some part about EEPROM confirmation and it failed this part; said retry flashing but kept giving the same error. So I finally decided that I'd do the flashing the manual way via Dos boot disc and their Dos based program.

Anyway, upon rebooting I got a bad checksum and it attempted to search for a recovery BIOS from floppy. According to the manual you can have it recover a BIOS from the drivers CD, and that once you put it in it would read from there.

So I put in the drivers CD and my computer noticed it. It said on the screen that it was reading and flashing the BIOS from the CD, but the indicator light did not flash and it did not seem as if any reading was being done.

It then said reboot to restore this recovery BIOS. I did so, and rebooted into...nothing! Now the computer powers up but will not even find a BIOS.

I have tried to clear the CMOS repeatedly to no avail. I have no idea what to do and figured that somebody here would be my guardian angel and save the day.

So basically I'm pretty sure that nothing is bad at all, but the BIOS will not boot up because of the multiple BIOS writing errors of ASUS.

Please help! I need to get back on my PC asap and am posting this message from my fathers Intel P3 500 mHz.

[Romulox]

That sounds really bad. So the hardware turns on but nothing happens after that correct? Flashing a Bios is the one thing the YOU CANNOT SCREW UP.
If your Bios is dead your system is dead and the theres no way to get back unless
you get a new bios chip or know someone how has the same exact board to flash from theirs but i don't know how that works. I would contact ASUS to see if they can send you a new bios chip or RMA it.

[Jamaro85]

Ahh damn, I figured something along the lines of that. What ****es me off the most is that it is ASUS' retarded utilities that screwed everything up; I wasn't trying to go off and mess around on my own. This really sucks! But at thanks for letting me know that it is most likely the case that I'll have to have ASUS save me.

[Chief_Drunk]

Unlucky there. I dunno if it means out but i seem to recall reading in the manual for my board that it has some feature to recover from a failed bios update??? Maybe yours has somet similar. If only it had that gigabyte dual bios (

[stang8118]

try taking out the cmos battary for about an hour, and see if that'll reset is for you. Other then that you'll probably have to RMA it.

[Jamaro85]

Originally Posted by Chief_Drunk

Unlucky there. I dunno if it means out but i seem to recall reading in the manual for my board that it has some feature to recover from a failed bios update??? Maybe yours has somet similar. If only it had that gigabyte dual bios (

Unfortunately my board doesn't have that. =(

Originally Posted by stang8118

try taking out the cmos battary for about an hour, and see if that'll reset is for you. Other then that you'll probably have to RMA it.

Gonna go ahead and try that. Thanks for responding guys.

[Kr4nG]

i think you should keep trying to flash it. did you do the ez flash? alt+f2 as soon the pc loads up

[Bhugarov]

Try what stang8118 suggested, and remove the CMOS battery for a while. If that doesn't help, then read the stickies about "hot flashing"... if that doesn't help then you will most likely need to RMA it.
Good luck.

[dingman]

@Jamaro85

This happened to me actually last night, and i was using the beta 1015.002
there is actually something wrong with that bios.

what you need to do is
download the newest final bios 1015 and rename it A8V.ROM
place it on a blank floppy

remove your 3.0v battery and move the ctrc to off, to clear the cmos
leave off and then go to your local hardware store and get a new 3.0v lithium battery "energizer 2032"

by the time you return that should be efficent to drain the mb.

replace w/ new battery and move cmos switch back to default position

now with your a8v.rom floppy place it in your drive and turn on your computer,

let the bad bios checksum read the floppy and update the bios,
it will then tell you to power down and restart.

-hope it works out for you!

[apesoccer]

You have to unplug the computer from the wall in addition to taking out the battery...after doing both push the power button to help flush out an additional power, then usually after 10-15sec or so you should hear a near inaudible pop of the last of the pwr draining (i can't hear it on my newer boards...but it worked on my older ones) and you can plug it back in and put the bat back in. However, when my bios died 2 months ago on my jetway after putting a bad bios on from jetway, i had to rma. Once the bad bios is on, you can't get to the point where you can reflash it, because that requires there to be an old bios to boot to a certain point from.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Was the file not found error message from Windows? If it was, then you may have a RAM malfunction. A RAM malfunction may cause Windows to falsely say that a file can't be found. That is, even when it's on your HDD. Thus, you shall get Memtest86 and run that for at least 24 hours!!!