pc wont boot after bios update, help please.

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Hey all i recently sold my pc to a friend, who decided to do a bios update. Now it wont boot up or anything. The motherbaord is a p5n32 sli plus.

I've tried the suggestions on this site http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...model=P5N32-E+SLI+Plus&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I dont have a floopy drive anywhere so i dont know how i would flash the bios back, and as i say the pc is not even booting.

Things i have tried so far, using 1 ram stick, using 1 graphics card, tried differant ways of cmos restart, removing the battary moving the jumper and so on, tried unpluging the hard drive.

Just unplugged thw power cord, taken the battery out and also have move the jumper in 2-3 postion gonna leave it off for awhile. Is this the right way to do a cmos restart. When i turn it on do a put the battery in and the cmos back to the default postion or do i leave it as it is see if it boots.

Can any one tell me how to do a proper cmos restart as some people are giving me differant answears. Will a cmos restart restore the default or older bios ? any one got any suggestions how i might get the pc booting again. The fans and so on all come on just i got no boot screen, also the mouse and keybaord lights dont come on
 
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Sounds like a corrupt BIOS. You can try to recover using the ASUS Crash Free BIOS utility. Put the motherboard CD in the CD ROM drive and try to boot. You might try disconnecting other drives when you attempt this. If the motherboard BIOS boot block is still intact then it should find the drive and automatically restore the original BIOS. Read the manual for further info.

Edit - re-setting the CMOS will do nothing at this stage, it only contains the configuration settings used by the BIOS itself. A successfull BIOS flash will reset them anyway. Make sure you have the clearCMOS jumper on pins 1-2 otherwise it will never boot! Also, maybe older boards require the BIOS file to be on a floppy, can't remember for yours, but try the CD first.
 
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ChrisLX200 said:
Sounds like a corrupt BIOS. You can try to recover using the ASUS Crash Free BIOS utility. Put the motherboard CD in the CD ROM drive and try to boot. You might try disconnecting other drives when you attempt this. If the motherboard BIOS boot block is still intact then it should find the drive and automatically restore the original BIOS. Read the manual for further info.

Edit - re-setting the CMOS will do nothing at this stage, it only contains the configuration settings used by the BIOS itself. A successfull BIOS flash will reset them anyway. Make sure you have the clearCMOS jumper on pins 1-2 otherwise it will never boot! Also, maybe older boards require the BIOS file to be on a floppy, can't remember for yours, but try the CD first.
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kk will try this now thanks
 
I bet a shiny nickel he used the ASUS windows flash program, I hate it so much I dont even waste time remembering the name :p

If the cd in the drive doesnt work then its in trouble, you could probably buy a new bios chip for this board and fit that though.
 
yes he did. I'm having trouble finding the disc will have a good look tommorow. Looking at the asus forum quite a few people are having the same problem. Its a really poor bios going from what people have said plus not sure while he updated it anyways, as i left him a stable pc.

Is this the sort of thing a tech shop could fix? I'd never trust them my self i always get the feeling they over charge and charge you for things that didnt need fixing.
 
As JB intimated the asus updater sounds like its left your BIOS broken (talking in forum acceptable language ;) ) tbh they really should remove that software from their bundle it causes more problems than it solves, no a shop cant fix it, your 2 choices are 1 as JB said try and find a new BIOS chip or 2 buy a new mobo, its cream crackered ;)
 
I don't trust tech shops. To be fair, they need to make a profit like everyone else, just don't like them making one off me.

I've had to replace the BIOS chip before, turn-around is very quick and fairly cheap so it's not the end of the world if you can't get the flash to work.
 
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