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amd 64 x2 6000 unknown cpu?

Winnter

Winnter

Winnter

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Hi i wonder if anyone can help me please.
I recently bought a x2 6000 but my trouble is that the bios is not showing it as a amd 64 x2 6000.Instead its showing amd 64 x2 6000 unknown cpu.my mobo is M2N-E
I know i need to do a bios update,But i have tryed that but when i go and use asus update,Just after i press the flash button my pc freezes,I went to leave my pc for a few hours to see if anything happens..But the screen is still the same..Then i went into the bios,And tryed using the asus ez flash 2 utility but when i put the bios file which i download on the cd..it cant find the file so i cant upgrade the bios :(
Does anyone know what to do.
Thanks
 
Wont matter, he is flashing in Windows, not from DOS or bios.

I advise forget Asus update as its slow and buggy.

Go to the Asus site, grab this bios: http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2N-E/1001.zip

Then use Asus update but change option so it updates from a FILE, browse to extracted file and let it do its thing and reboot when asked, you need enter Bios and set up on that reboot as all settings will be back to bios defaults.

Also I'm sure thats the mobo that Asus dicontinued as it cant set Memory volts above 1.95v and some DDR2 wont boot with under 2.1v, I used to use it on customer builds but now use the SLI version.
 
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You renamed the extension of the bios file after u downloaded as i know some ppl had to do this i think for bios flasher tool to see it properly. Does asus site not give u a guide how to do it for ** board?
 
.BIN is the image file. Do you not have a floppy drive to do the bios update with?
 
Do this:

Rename the .bin file into M2N-E.bin .
Burn onto cd.
Keep cd in, turn off your pc.
Turn on your pc, immediatly @ post press ALT + F2.
Should start the onboard flash progra, it'll scan for bios on floppy and cdrom, make sure u name it M2N-E.bin though, as it will say no bios found if you dont...

Much easier than the boot into DOS and use DOS app rubbish.
Works on all asus boards since ages.
 
snowdog said:
Do this:

Rename the .bin file into M2N-E.bin .
Burn onto cd.
Keep cd in, turn off your pc.
Turn on your pc, immediatly @ post press ALT + F2.
Should start the onboard flash progra, it'll scan for bios on floppy and cdrom, make sure u name it M2N-E.bin though, as it will say no bios found if you dont...

Much easier than the boot into DOS and use DOS app rubbish.
Works on all asus boards since ages.
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Snowdog i did try doing what you said,But when i press alt + f2 nothing happens.
anyother ideas?
 
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right just got onto that screen via pressing alt + F2
But it does not pick anything up from the CD..
I Might just give up i think :confused:
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Have you renamed the .bin into M2N-E.bin and placed it in the cd's root folder?

What does it say after ''scanning for cd'' ?


However if alt f2 fails, make a bootable DOS disk, and use the asus afudos (or whatever it's called) to flash...

Just go into nero, slect bootable data CD, and select the nero's premade dos image in selection of type of boot.

If you want I can make an iso for ya and send it to ya through msn/xfire with the bios on it, the bios flash app, and a bootable DOS cd, so all you have to do is burn it, and reboot pc ( and offcourse make sure your 1st boot device is a cd/dvd drive) and just run it...


helmutcheese said:
Only old dos way, with a start up floppy with awdflash.exe + bios file on it.

I would also name bios file to something short and simple like new.bin.
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Why on earth floppy's, most useless slow unrealible POS that exists, nothing but trouble with floppy's, bootable cd is much easier. Who has a floppy drive these days anyhow?
 
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Yes I am going against it, because you can do a bios flash with a cd too, you haven't read all of my post I guess, I explained to him how to flash it, helping him, I was just responding to your comment that imo it's pointless to use floppy's in this age when you can do it with cd's.

I personally don't care what pople say about using dos or not, I've flashed bios-es 100's of times, because I sell motherboards, and I always do it with cd's because floppy's take longer, often get damaged, etcetc, its very inpratical if you flash a board every week, and just faster to use a cd even if only have to do it once, safer too because floppy's have the habit of being damaged by even the tiniest thing, it's much easier to have all the bios-es for like different types 50 mainboards on a cd and flash with alt F2, alt f2 is just way easier too, as no need to even boot into dos or make a dos cd/ floppy ( on asus boards that is).
 
Well he aint having much luck that way, obv something is wrong and he is in need of another method, be if if you like or hate floppy's its the default method to do the job and it aint any slower to do than burn a CD.

At the end of the day, keeping you happy aint the goal here, its getting OP's mobos flashed.
 
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snowdog,Thanks for the tip.
I have put it on the CD that bin file,But when get to that screen where it finds the file..It finds nothing on the cd :confused:
Or am i doing something wrong with the cd?
 
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