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A7N8X-Deluxe won't boot up!

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Shagger

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I flashed the BIOS on my A7N8X-Deluxe 2.0 to 1.008 to try and use a 2TB WD drive. It worked for a little while, but was flaky on access to the SATA drives. I was going to update the driver for my SiI 3112 chip to a new driver but before I was able to it hung up in Windows. I forced a reset and now it will not boot at all. No POST beeps, nothing. The LED on the mobo is green. The fans and drives spool up, but no boot. I have removed / reseated the memory and the drive cables to no avail. I also removed the CMOS battery, power cable and reset the CMOS chip a few times. I am not sure on my next step. How can I tell if suddenly the Mobo wen't bad. All, I really want to do is flash the BIOS back to 1.007 and see if that will alleviate the problem.

I know this rig old, but it still works and I like it. Well, it USED to work... 🙂 Anyone with some bright ideas?
 
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You aren't even able to get into the bios anymore? Or you just can't boot into windows? The only problems I ever had with my old A7N8X-Deluxe was the cmos battery needed to be replaced once, and my bios actually got corrupted somehow when saving and exiting out of bios. I had to remove the actual cmos chip and send it in to be reflashed.
 
Try removing all cards except video card and unplugging all optical / floppy drives and then see if you can even get into BIOS.

Also, how did you flash originally, from Windows or from a DOS floppy boot disk?

It sounds to me like the flash ROM got screwed up somehow.
 
fluffmonster said:
did you jumper the hdd to SATA I mode?
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The 2TB SATA drive is no longer connected, I had it connected to turn off the Intellipark feature for my Tivo upgrade. The bite was to even get my computer to recognize it, I had to flash to the newest BIOS.
 
SilentAssassin said:
You aren't even able to get into the bios anymore? Or you just can't boot into windows? The only problems I ever had with my old A7N8X-Deluxe was the cmos battery needed to be replaced once, and my bios actually got corrupted somehow when saving and exiting out of bios. I had to remove the actual cmos chip and send it in to be reflashed.
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I cannot get into BIOS or Windows. I will get a new CMOS battery and am looking at getting a new BIOS chip.
 
nenforcer said:
Try removing all cards except video card and unplugging all optical / floppy drives and then see if you can even get into BIOS.

Also, how did you flash originally, from Windows or from a DOS floppy boot disk?

It sounds to me like the flash ROM got screwed up somehow.
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I did try to remove all drives except for my two IDE ones, and the only card that is in there is the video card. I had used a DOS boot bisk prepped by Windows XP. When I rebooted from the flash, there were several beeps and it went into 'default' mode so I had to reset my multplier, etc...
 
I just read about potential problems with 32 bit windows XP and 2TB and larger hard drives.

Seems there are major performance / compatibility issues since these drives use a 4Kb enhanced sector which none of the older software is optimized for.

Doesn't seem like this is your issue, however!
 
ground... maybe the board is touching ground somewhere in the case, it happen to me with Asus A7v133
 
ok, I put in a new CMOS battery and bought a new BIOS chip. Put the both in and nothing. No beeps, nothing... I guess next I will remove the board from the case and try it that way... SIGH!
 
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