I updated the bios on my P4C800-E Deluxe ASUS mb yesterday. The updater ran fine but when it was finished I got a msg that said "checksum error." Now it won't reboot at all. If I shut if off and restart it, it will go into setup and say that overclocking is off. Even if I adjust some stuff, when I reboot it reads the hard drive ad infinitum but never boots. I set it to boot from the floppy (which has another copy of the updater and the bios figuring that I would just load it again but now it won't boot so now what do I do? Thanks.
Erik
I was told to reset the BIOS with the NVRAM jumper. Also that the computer would load the BIOS from either the setup CD or a floppy with the BIOS file on it. So I did reset the BIOS with the jumper. When I restarted it after it came up with the msg below and when I went into the BIOS either way & rebooted it wouldn't come up. When I shut it off and restarted from scratch, it came up fine and went into Windows. Everything seemed to work fine. I was reluctant to shut it down for fear it wouldn't come back.
Hi,
I did what you said with the resetting of the BIOS jumper but didn't take the battery out.
When I started it, it did the same thing with the msg that I was getting before:
Overclocking failed. Please enter setup to re-configure system.
Press F1 to run setup
Press F2 to load default values and continue
When I did either one of the above it would just look at the HD, the monitor had no-signal
no matter how long I waited. However, when I turned if off, then restarted, it came up fine.
Everything seemed to work fine and I was hesitant to turn if off since I don't know if it's
going to come on tomorrow.
I ran a program called ctbios and here's the results:
BIOS date: 3-16-05
AMI-BIOS found: Version 21.07, date 3-16-05
OEM ID: 0106
Chipset: I875P
The BIOS file I was trying to load was P4ced21.rom. The loader was AFUDOS.exe, version 2.11.
Now I may be wrong about this but the version the ctbios found, 21.07, looks like it may be
the one in the bios file so the loader may have done the job except for the checksum problem.
The date seems reasonable as well. The question now becomes a, will it come up again and b,
if it does, can I make it boot up from the floppy & reinstall the bios again? Or, if it boots,
should I leave well enough alone?
The thing that it was supposed to do, loading the bios from a floppy/CD by itself didn't work.
What do you think?
Erik