BIOS

mjwp · 23 Oct 2008 at 18:29

Right, iv bought various components ( refer to sig ) and assembled them etc.. and when i boot the pc up the asus p5q screen comes up giving me an option of either setup or bios POST msg.
when i enter setup as Bios POST msg shows me a screen then turns off after 15 secs it says it has detected my SATA HDD but then says no HDD detected.
The question is what do i do next? iv reseated the HDD and swapped cables etc. :confused:

mjwp · 23 Oct 2008 at 18:51

how do i go about setting DVRAM voltages?

mjwp · 23 Oct 2008 at 19:14

i cannot get into the BIOS, i can get into a utility called asus ez flash 2 which enables me to install a BIOS update from the motherboard cd. it tells me that no hdd is detected and gives me onnly az flash options, Ideas?

mjwp · 23 Oct 2008 at 19:16

i have a 512mb stick in my old pc i could try ? do you think its the RAM?

mjwp · 23 Oct 2008 at 19:23

oh crap, its not ddr2, i could borrow some of my mates though. Surely its not the RAM? that was last on my list... ?

mjwp · 25 Oct 2008 at 09:19

when pressing delete... it goes into " Setup " this gives me a list of options :
az flash utility
flash popup
then a list of stats like cpu etc. ?? then it says it will turn off in 15 secs

mjwp · 25 Oct 2008 at 12:17

Yeh, i checked that the HDD was in SATA 1 ...

mjwp · 25 Oct 2008 at 12:53

USB device over current status detected ?

mjwp · 25 Oct 2008 at 13:17

if iv had the Clear RTC RAM jumper off when ppowered on, of which in the manual says " Except when clearing The RTC RAM, never remove the cap on CLRTC jumper default position. Removing cap will cause system boot failure" what does this mean, its frigged ?

mjwp · 25 Oct 2008 at 15:04

it boots, just skips bios. ?