Asus P5W DH + Retail Conroe BIOS Issues
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FarFarAway
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But if you have a newer board it may be fine without it 
I will have the E6600 tomorrow, and i really hope it will work. If it wont work, the store were i bought it wont flash it. But well they only want to flash if i bought the intel chip there, but i didnt. Hope it will work. But this disc you made, is with the help of asus right??
Okidoki, thanks man. Well that leaves me then with an mobo that has 0402 in it, and i read on alot of forums that conroe wont boot, so no error message. Ill guess i have to go to a store and get it flashed. If that goes wrong asus can send me a new bioschip. But were can i ask that, there site is so slow, and for the netherlands the email link etc doenst work. If only the store clerks told me that its an old bios, i would have waited till the newest one was in store, but no, they did not tell me, they did not even now. They did not even now were i found the bios version. Well on the sticker morron haha.
FarFarAway
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I'd go buy a BIOS chip from Asus
Failing that ring them up and complain like hell and they should send you a new one
You could of course get a skt 775 Celeron and flash it yourself
Failing that ring them up and complain like hell and they should send you a new one
You could of course get a skt 775 Celeron and flash it yourself
Some recent info...................hope this helps someone...........
Just got off the phone with Asus tech support. It is 9:00AM Aug 4th as I type this........................
The tech told me if I am using the E6600 processor then I need at least bios version 0801 for it to post properly.
The good news is, they are sending me the new bios chip under warranty flashed with 0801 for FREE! I did an upgrade to next day air so as to get it here quicker. Will have to pay for the next day air but if you choose regular ground then they pay the shipping.
Just give tech support a call and there will be no need to worry about flashing yourself in order to get things up and running!
Phone number to tech support is 1-502-995-0883.
In my opinion at least..................this experience with Asus tech support has to rank as perfect! Very knowlegable, friendly and helpful!
As I said..................hope this helps?
Lenny
Just got off the phone with Asus tech support. It is 9:00AM Aug 4th as I type this........................
The tech told me if I am using the E6600 processor then I need at least bios version 0801 for it to post properly.
The good news is, they are sending me the new bios chip under warranty flashed with 0801 for FREE! I did an upgrade to next day air so as to get it here quicker. Will have to pay for the next day air but if you choose regular ground then they pay the shipping.
Just give tech support a call and there will be no need to worry about flashing yourself in order to get things up and running!
Phone number to tech support is 1-502-995-0883.
In my opinion at least..................this experience with Asus tech support has to rank as perfect! Very knowlegable, friendly and helpful!
As I said..................hope this helps?
Lenny
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I don't have an FDD in my newly build PC and want to keep it that way if possible, so this was an ideal solution for me.
Unfortunately I'm also getting the downloading so far then stopping problem; both at home and work and in Opera, IE and Firefox.
Help?
I don't have an FDD in my newly build PC and want to keep it that way if possible, so this was an ideal solution for me.
Unfortunately I'm also getting the downloading so far then stopping problem; both at home and work and in Opera, IE and Firefox.
Help?
Thanks for that. Unfortunately it appears to have killed my PC. :\
It burned fine, booted fine, flashed fine, said to reboot. Rebooted ok showed the boot screen, hit TAB to see the post and that was it. It showed the new bios number but then locked and now on boot up it doesn't make the keyboard lights blink or the monitor go on.
I've tried the discon power, remove battery, flip (damn... memory failed me) "thingie" to clear CMOS for 20s or so, then flip back, put battery back in and try again and no joy.
So does anyone have a way ahead for me here or am I just going to have to contact Asus Australia (or whoever) and ask for a new bios?
It burned fine, booted fine, flashed fine, said to reboot. Rebooted ok showed the boot screen, hit TAB to see the post and that was it. It showed the new bios number but then locked and now on boot up it doesn't make the keyboard lights blink or the monitor go on.
I've tried the discon power, remove battery, flip (damn... memory failed me) "thingie" to clear CMOS for 20s or so, then flip back, put battery back in and try again and no joy.
So does anyone have a way ahead for me here or am I just going to have to contact Asus Australia (or whoever) and ask for a new bios?
FarFarAway
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Have you done the usual and stripped the system down to the very basics, including one stick of RAM??
FarFarAway
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Yeah. It might also be worth using a value stick of DDR2 with loose timings to boot (if you have one), then setting the timings for your RAM when in the BIOS
