Bad bios flash, now only black screen...Asus A7V8X

[steve80]

I flashed this bios and it failed to "verify", once i rebooted, i only got a black screen..


its the Asus A7V8X motherboard with a 32pin 4mb PLCC bios chip, i need to replace this.


I live in Vancouver, BC. Anyone know where i can buy a replacement and how to flash this replacement so it will work in my motherboard?

Ive found someone on eBay, but they're selling them for 20$ USD including shipping, but id rather by locally.


Thanks in advance

[cmge]

u can RMA it..

[Gee]

Check your manual to see if your motherboard supports the Crash Free BIOS. Most of the newer Asus boards support this feature.

It allows you to flash the BIOS even if it failed the first time.

[steve80]

i just got it back from RMA last week, i dont want to wait another 3 weeks for another board (its been RMA'd twice already)

I dont think it supports "Crash Free", even if it did, when i turn the computer on, all i get is a blank screen... so i cannot flash or fix anything that way.

[Gee]

i just got it back from RMA last week, i dont want to wait another 3 weeks for another board (its been RMA'd twice already)

I dont think it supports "Crash Free", even if it did, when i turn the computer on, all i get is a blank screen... so i cannot flash or fix anything that way.

Crash Free usually requires removing the jumper on the board so it boots up in flash mode.

[willy]

I flashed this bios and it failed to "verify", once i rebooted, i only got a black screen..
Have you tried pressing ALT+F2 during POST ?

*NEVER* reboot if you run into any BIOS flashing problem ...... Next time, flash the original version back in.

BTW, did you flash it from DOS ?

[callous]

The gentleman wants one of you in his area to hotflash it for him.

Any takers?

[chaego]

this happened to me before too when i flashed my old A7V with the asus flash software when im not suppose too anyways it flashed find but when i booted black screen i started resetting the cmd and nothing happened but when i pulled out one stick of ram it worked so i dunno try removing a stick of ram or somthing lol

oh btw reading up on this board it has a history of breaking down during flashing i came up to a forum especially for this board and its problems and everyone there had problems like this due to flashing new bios

[steve80]

i used Asus Update in Windows XP with the 1014 bios... it failed to verify


immediately i reflashed it with the original older bios, and that also failed to verify... so i know i was f*cked.

i just purchased a new bios chip from ebay.. 25$ cdn including shipping... oh well,

[willy]

So the ALT+F2 during POST didn't work for ya ?

[steve80]

alt+f2 ?


nothing appears on the screen, it doesnt even scan the floppy... why would alt+f2 work?

[chaego]

i think this should be your excuse for an upgrade instead of just wastin time on this junk

[ProfessorChaos]

i used Asus Update in Windows XP with the 1014 bios... it failed to verify


immediately i reflashed it with the original older bios, and that also failed to verify... so i know i was f*cked.

i just purchased a new bios chip from ebay.. 25$ cdn including shipping... oh well,

why didnt u just get a bios saviour...

[webdoctors]

i really like da A7V8X, will probably get another one...

[willy]

alt+f2 ?

nothing appears on the screen, it doesnt even scan the floppy... why would alt+f2 work?
Try to hold down ALT + F2 and turn the power on ...

[steve80]

holding ALT + F2 did nothing, the tech support guy at Asus said i cant recover the bios myself and to contact my retailer, or RMA it i guess

[ji2o0k]

i messed up my BIOS during a flash upgrade on my ASUS A7V, you can always try hotflashing if you have some spare older mobos around.

check out this webpage and check the FAQs:
http://www.wimsbios.com/

I actually tried to hotflash, it is pretty darn risky and I didn't get the new BIOS chip to flash properly. It was a learning experience and I had some older PI boards so it was fun.

I ended up going to www.badflash.com and ordering a new one for $24.99 USD. Works well now.

[steve80]

yeh, too risky,... i ordered a new bios from biosdepot guy on ebay for 25$ CDN after shipping and taxes.. not bad