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Computer experts Please Read ASAP: UPDATED (pg. 2)
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| smokeape |
If you can even get past the bios screen, try a floppy boot. You can flash the bios if you can get to the floppy. If you can't get there and it freezes in bios, the flash ROM may have gotten corrupted, which means toast. If that's the case, pull your hard drive and slave it in another computer to see if you can access it to recover your data. Get a geek to help.
*edit* one more tip. There should be a jumper on the motherboard where you can reset the bios. Unplug the power cable, remove the jumper, then shove it back on. I would try that as well if you're still stuck.
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| Boomer187 |
I think they all covered everything.
except you might wanna tweak your P-Ram and glaze your subroutines. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by smokeape
If you can't get there and it freezes in bios, the flash ROM may have gotten corrupted, which means toast. |
get a new bios chip in that case. that's what i did and now i have 2 working chips :) |
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| SuperFarStucker |
I too have an a7n8x it's a total piece of . It won't run ram at rated speeds etc etc. It's a VERY COMMON problem that occurs arbitrarily. clear your bios settings by moving the jumper next to it to the other position, turning it on, turning it back off and setting the jumper to its previous setting. If that doesn't work, you're pretty much ed without getting a new chip.
This isn't the only asus board i've ever had problems with either , gah...
my friend has this exact mb too... happened to him as well before he flashed his bios |
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| smokeape |
Two Bios chips? Never heard of that one. Does the motherboard support such a thing. I've built about at least a half dozen computers and fixed piles others. Running four on line just at the house. Really, motherboards are not that expensive; about $150 for state of art, $80-100 for lesser ones.
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| Muff2K |
i got BIOS version 1006, nbever upgraded to 1007 because i didnt need to for some reason, the upgrades in 1007 didnt apply to me i remember
thansk for all the input guys. i'm gonna try all these thigns 2moro morning and yes i get past the POST and like i said b4
tyhe screen halts onthte
'Detecting IDE drives...' part
however, if i was a blind man, i would say that my computer was booting as normal, it makes all the same noises and i hear the drive spinning, no weird noises |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
I too have an a7n8x it's a total piece of . It won't run ram at rated speeds etc etc. It's a VERY COMMON problem that occurs arbitrarily. clear your bios settings by moving the jumper next to it to the other position, turning it on, turning it back off and setting the jumper to its previous setting. If that doesn't work, you're pretty much ed without getting a new chip.
This isn't the only asus board i've ever had problems with either , gah...
my friend has this exact mb too... happened to him as well before he flashed his bios |
a7n8x is one of the best mobos on the market... well, the deluxe one, dunno about the regular one.
it's an issue with saving the bios before version 1007 and if you have revision 2.0 v 1007 you're all set. clearing CMOS doesn't help at all.
and as for 2 bios chips, i think it's called bios saviour, got it from belgium, pre-programmed, for $60 (like half of that was for shipping). it's just a chip on top of a chip with a simple switch in the back. a very handy thing. http://www.techspot.com/reviews/har...our/index.shtml |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by Muff2K
i'm gonna try all these thigns 2moro morning |
yeah, do that. you never know. |
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| igottaknow |
its probably condensation, but pc should be able handle cold otherwise they couldnt ship computers in the winter.
omg i can't believe u didnt backup ur data :rolleyes:
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repeat after me I will back up my data or i will not whine when i lose everything. |
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| Muff2K |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
its probably condensation, but pc should be able handle cold otherwise they couldnt ship computers in the winter.
omg i can't believe u didnt backup ur data :rolleyes:
*puts on broken record*
repeat after me I will back up my data or i will not whine when i lose everything. |
yeah,m but sometimes you don't really think you got time to back up 70 gigs of trance, techno & house mp3 singles since 1998 :(
i'm so stupid, and i'll be so pissed if the 2nd drive with my music is toast...
the first drive was all programs & games, those are all burned on CD's anyways, that was the drive with the OS on it |
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| Muff2K |
UPDATE::
RESET the CMOS battery this morning, updated BIOS... and viola
back in action, no data lost on HDD's as most of us suspected...
i guess the cold weather just screwed with the CMOS battery a little.
glad to be back! thanks so much guys for all the help.... and to just think, if it wasn't for TA's discussion board, i probably wouldve ended up bringing my PC somewhere so that i wouldnt it up anymore..
we got a great crew PC tech support here.!
cheers |
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| whiskers |
he he he
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