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Bad BIOS Flash?

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Trekeritus

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I was having some stability issues, and decided to see if there was BIOS fix for it. I have an ASUS P8P67 Pro MB, I7 2600K CPU, and 8igs of G Skill memory. I previously flashed from the original 1502 bios to 1704 with no trouble. I went to the ASUS website and got the latest bios, 2103. I put it on a flash drive, booted to the UEFI Bios, went to the EZ Flash 2 Utility, flashed the BIOS, and it said the BIOS flash was successful. The system rebooted, but then nothing. I reset the CMOS, and the system booted up and went to Windows. I thought OK, everythings good. The next day I started up the computer, and it wouldn't boot. I cleared CMOS again and it booted up. Now every time I turn the computer off and restart it, I have to clear the CMOS for it to boot. I am at a loss as what to do.
 
How are you clearing it - via jumper or switch? Try removing power cord and motherboard battery and hold the power switch in for at least 10 seconds.

Is this happening at stock or overclock speeds?
 
Motorheader, I did what you suggested, and took the battery out instead of just using the jumper and it seems to have cleared up the problem. I have restarted the computer a couple of times and everything "seems" to be OK.
Thanks!!
 
Trekeritus said:
Motorheader, I did what you suggested, and took the battery out instead of just using the jumper and it seems to have cleared up the problem. I have restarted the computer a couple of times and everything "seems" to be OK.
Thanks!!
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Just in case it doesn't work out in the end it's possible to downgrade the bios if needed. I had to do it for troubleshooting my board in sig. Pretty much worked out fine but wound up being my board in the end.

Here's a link that explains how to do it. Not too complicated at all. Not for the exact motherboard but the basic principle is the same and it worked out fine.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...d=1&model=P8P67+DELUXE&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
 
Also it never hurts to try doing the "Load Default Settings" and "Save Settings On Exit" once you replace the battery.
 
Kenmitch - thank you for the link. I was wondering if there was a /forceit type of switch for that board/bios.

Decades later and bios updates remain be as daunting as ever.
 
Another thing that sometimes gets overlooked, although it doesn't appear to be the case here, is that the clear CMOS jumper is left in the 'Clear' position.
 
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