Hello,
I just built a new computer for my step dad that bought the parts. I wish he didnt get ASUS because ive had NOTHING but problems with those boards, even at work... Anyway, its the ASUS P5E motherboard (not deluxe or anything, just P5E) and i updated the BIOS for CPU support as it said at boot, the cpu isnt compatible and to update the bios. During the update using ASUS's flash utility, it came up with a "fail" notice. I forgot what the error was but it was unable to determine something, kinda like it was unable to validate?
So i was researching and trying to figure out why it was doing this but it was 2:30 in the AM and i wanted to go to bed. so i shut the computer down and now when it turns on, it turns right back off after about 3-5 seconds and keeps doing this until the switch is switched in the back to turn power off. I just pulled the CMOS battery and unplugged the computer for well over 10 min and it does the same exact thing. By now im pulling my hair out because of this and this is the third time something like this has happened and guess what, the third time i forgot how to fix it lol.... go figure!
System Specs:
ASUS P5E Motherboard
4gb g-skill ddr2-1066
GeForce GTX 260
Intel C2D 3.0ghz
700w PSU
any ideas?
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i agree with ComputerTechie : it has crash recovery - see page 4-8 of the manual :
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pu
That's clear. If you have a broken BIOS it can't initialize the CD nor DVD. Only the basic functions are supported. I'm sure that ASUS CD only works if BIOS is working for example with a wrong but successfully patched BIOS version.
Maybe you can find out where you can send you Motherboard to repair it. I live in Germany and have to pay about 10Euro plus shipping cost for it.
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by: TDSPosted on 2009-08-09 at 10:39:52ID: 25055065
Do you have an external floppy? If yes you can boot from it even the extended BIOS is frozen.
Simply make a boot disk, copy the asus BIOS files, write a autoexec.bat with the flash exe and image commands.
After this, start the PC and wait a moment.
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