A8V-Deluxe bios was corrupted by Linux+ Live DVD

[TheGoat Eater]

* I know this is a double post, will get admin to delete other thread in a bit!*

From other thread-

TheGoat Eater- my asus update tool says unable to retrieve bios info and my start up is slow and in bios it shows that no ata drives are attached to the mobo(cd-roms don't work)... Thanks a lot Fing Linux+ - -- -- What do I do?

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bersl2- OK, #1, calm down. #2, start making sense---there have been hundreds of thousands of instances of successful live CD distro boots without the problems described by you. No live CD writes to the BIOS space. Have you considered hardware failure or manual changes you made without remembering?
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grimdeath- ok, a live cd shoudnt do THAT much damage....what else have you done lately besides use the live cd? install something, change something, mess with ANYTHING inside the case? oc?
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TheGoat Eater- I Have done nothing! - I don't think it is a harware issue, my bios shows no cd-rom attached and there are two... I have used various live CDs/DVDs with no problems- But this is frusterating - I can't find a place to get afudos.exe Bios update tool for my Mobo and I can't get it off of my cd that came with the MB because the the cd-roms don't work
I tried afudos.exe w/ most recent bios and it says: ERROR: Main Bios Checksum is bad -----What do i do now?

 

[TheGoat Eater]

1. Its was stock no change in hardware in a couple of months, Bios - about 4 weeks since I last touched it. Everything was fine until I used Linux+ Live DVD and now it takes forever to boot shows no cd-roms, asus update says it can't get bios info, afudos.exe doesn't work --> ERROR: Main Bios checksum is bad
2. not sure what to do now - it does boot but I get blue screen of death a lot and things are slow ( i am on the rig right now)
3.What do I do now? does anyone know where I can get a replacement Bios chip for the revision 2.0? Or do you suggest something else?

 

[Linearsoup]

if it will let you into windows try downloading the lasted version of asus update,i totaled my bios chip and asus told me i should have done that,or you can get asus to send you a new bios chip.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

-UPDATE-
Yep - I fixed it on my own when I got off of work today. YES! I finally found the newest version of afudos.exe, which I was able to use successfully with the newest Bios. It didn't work last night because (most likely)it was an older version of afudos.exe. Because I couldn?t find it on ASUS's site I had to get it somewhere other than. I had a hell of a time with ASUS's download site, as it took me a long time to find the newest versions of afudos.exe and the asus update utility. You can't find them with a search and they are not on the A8V-Deluxe's download page which they should be. They should be there because the software comes with the mobo and is for use with it. Is it just me, or am I the only one who hates their download site?

I turned on my rig to see where the jumper was (using the manual .pdf) and noticed that the cd-roms were working, so I figured something had changed. I got onto ASUS's site and was able to find the newest afudos.exe after a while, - TOO LONG, IMO - and was able to make the floppy before the blue screen of death. - which happened about 30seconds after I got done making the floppy Booted off of the floppy and ran afudos.exe with the new Bios and Wa-La good as new on the re-boot!

By the way what is the correct spelling of Wa-La - if there is one -

 

[ElTorrente]

Just hit alt-F2 when the BIOS is posting - you know, when it says "press delete to enter setup".. hit alt-F2 instead and just make sure you have a floppy in the drive with the bios on it. It'll flash automatically everytime.

No need for booting to DOS and running update utilities and blah blah - just hit alt-f2.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

Thanks! - didn't know that