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ASUS Maximus II Formula
Love at first sight. Absolutely adored it from when I spotted it in the display cabinet right up until 20 minutes after powering new new rig up when it all fell down.
I had the system up and running and was ready to install operating system but decided to Flash BIOS chip #1 to BIOS chip #2 first, to back up the BIOS setting changes I had made (the 2nd time I had done this, the 1st was completely succsessful). I left it doing it's thing (it had gone to Soft Off and BIOS LED was flashing) while I went outside for a smoke. When I returned it was powered up and the LCD Poster had the PWR_OFF message, but I had no video signal.
I took the the graphics card back to the vendor, hoping that was the problem, but it was fine. Advised of anecdotal evidence that BIOS Flashback sometimes fails, corrupting both BIOS copies (I had tried booting from both BIOS chips).
All further attempts to start computer result in the following sequence of events:
Power to PSU = LCD Poster "WELCOME", power on computer, everything powers up, 4 seconds then LCD Poster changes to "PWR_OFF" and computer does Soft Off, 3 seconds then Soft On, 4 seconds then Soft Off, 2 seconds then Soft On, system then just sits there with LCD Poster "PWR_OFF. No post beeps, no video signal. There is no mention of PWR_OFF in the Debug Code Table of the motherboard manual. Some other purchasers of this motherboard have reported similar problems in this thread on the ASUSTeK support forums.
Pulled CMOS battery, reinstalled video card. Will wait an hour before reinserting battery and attempting to boot. If that fails it's time to return the mobo (different vendor).
Love at first sight. Absolutely adored it from when I spotted it in the display cabinet right up until 20 minutes after powering new new rig up when it all fell down.
I had the system up and running and was ready to install operating system but decided to Flash BIOS chip #1 to BIOS chip #2 first, to back up the BIOS setting changes I had made (the 2nd time I had done this, the 1st was completely succsessful). I left it doing it's thing (it had gone to Soft Off and BIOS LED was flashing) while I went outside for a smoke. When I returned it was powered up and the LCD Poster had the PWR_OFF message, but I had no video signal.
I took the the graphics card back to the vendor, hoping that was the problem, but it was fine. Advised of anecdotal evidence that BIOS Flashback sometimes fails, corrupting both BIOS copies (I had tried booting from both BIOS chips).
All further attempts to start computer result in the following sequence of events:
Power to PSU = LCD Poster "WELCOME", power on computer, everything powers up, 4 seconds then LCD Poster changes to "PWR_OFF" and computer does Soft Off, 3 seconds then Soft On, 4 seconds then Soft Off, 2 seconds then Soft On, system then just sits there with LCD Poster "PWR_OFF. No post beeps, no video signal. There is no mention of PWR_OFF in the Debug Code Table of the motherboard manual. Some other purchasers of this motherboard have reported similar problems in this thread on the ASUSTeK support forums.
Pulled CMOS battery, reinstalled video card. Will wait an hour before reinserting battery and attempting to boot. If that fails it's time to return the mobo (different vendor).