• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

BIOS flash killed P5B-E

I

icepik

n00b
Joined
Apr 11, 2005
Messages
39
Asus P5B-E

I think I just killed my BIOS. I performed a BIOS update to the latest version using the Asus Update utility in Windows. It prompted me to reboot after updating the BIOS. After it shut down the PC I can't get back into Windows. Now when I boot it up all of the fans come on and the hard drives turn on but I don't get anything on the display. Not even any of the usual BIOS messages. Just a black screen and the LCD monitor usually goes into power save mode. There is also a green LED on the bottom of the motherboard that stays lit all the time. Is there any way to recover from this?
 
Well, I fixed it. I went to the Asus site and downloaded the user manual for this board here:
http://support.asus.com/downlo...d.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Then followed the instructions for resetting CMOS. This included removing the battery, disconnecting power and moving the CMOS jumper.

That must have worked because when I powered it back up it booted into Windows.

However, the second time I booted it stated that I had invalid overclocking settings. I reentered BIOS and modified the RAM voltage and timings to manufacturer's specs and had no further issues.

Guess I shouldn't have jumped on the panic button so quickly.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top