HELP Wont post after bios update

neoglow · 6 Apr 2011 at 16:41

Hey guys,

Was just having a tidy up on the rig, updating drivers etc and tried to update the mobo bios to the latest version.

Mobo is an Asus P5N32-E SLI Socket 775, downloaded the latest bios from Asus (version 1903). Made double sure it was the correct Bios. Did the usual copy to floppy disk and install through the bios as Ive done before.

All went fine, no power cuts or anything. Restarted and now it wont POST, lights come on, fans start, then it 'clicks' and restarts itself again and just keeps doing this over and over. Screen dosent come on, cant get far enough to enter the bios.

Tried clearing CMOS, removing battery etc, still no joy.

Have I got my self a new paper weight, aka fried mobo?

big_fella_andy · 6 Apr 2011 at 16:44

I had problems like this with the Asus Striker before. it had horrible compatibility issuies with ram on certaint bios upgrades, i never actually managed to get it to run on 4gig... I was running 3gb...

when i updated the Bios one time, the bios wasn't capable of running the 3gb, so it wouldn't do anything

Try taking your ram chips out back to bare minimum and have 1 single chip in. might do the trick if it's a similar problem to mine.

neoglow · 6 Apr 2011 at 16:58

big_fella_andy said:
I had problems like this with the Asus Striker before. it had horrible compatibility issuies with ram on certaint bios upgrades, i never actually managed to get it to run on 4gig... I was running 3gb...

when i updated the Bios one time, the bios wasn't capable of running the 3gb, so it wouldn't do anything

Try taking your ram chips out back to bare minimum and have 1 single chip in. might do the trick if it's a similar problem to mine.

No joy

Tried booting the system with the bare minimum, took a stick of RAM out, tried in different ram slots.

On my last attempt it beeped wildly at me, it aint happy.

big_fella_andy · 6 Apr 2011 at 17:50

Have you tried taking the battery out of your board, unplugging it totally (no power cable in the back of it) and leaving it for around an hour?

Also, is they only one battery on the motherboard? any your missing?

Also, if your screens having problems it might be graphics related, for some reason the bios might have nacked your GPU, try a different graphics card maybe or using onboard graphics?

postmanfw · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:43

If its a removable bios chip you can buy a replacement one or get yours reprogrammed.

It is possible to do a hotflash yourself and reprogram it using another mb that uses the same bios chip.

Bonus if its the same motherboard but it can actually be done with another brand.
Once use a MSI Infinfity socket A to hotflash an abit NF7 also socket a

Not for the faint hearted though as it involves booting up the good board into dos then removing the bios chip and putting the bad one in and forcing it to flash it with the correct bios.

Easiest option is def buying a replacement for it

But it was fun fixing it for free back then