P5N SLI Bios Flash Problem

[RMSe17]

I tried flashing the BIOS through WinXP, and got a blue screen in the middle. Now, the computer does not POST. Everything turns on, but nothing comes up on the screen or anything. I tried sticking the ASUS CD into a CD drive, to see if it would restore the BIOS, but nothing happened... What should I do?

Thanks,
RMSe17

 

[SLM Crew Chief]

Um, why did u try to flash the bios? There only one bios for this board. Are you sure you used the right bios? I'd like to flash it too but I don't think we are going to see much support for this board. Heck, they didn't even put firewire on it. Anyway, what does it say in the manual about the crash free bios? The directions should be and just might be in there. I'd look but I picked up this board as an open box stop-gap (nothing but the board) until nVidia gets the 590's sorted out, which from what I understand won't be called 590 now but 6xx.

 

[RMSe17]

Thanks for the response man. Unfortunately I did follow the manual - no results. I was flashing the BIOS to put a different picture up during the boot up screen (yes, playing around and goofing off for no reason). The crash-free bios screen doesn't even come up--and its supposed to according to instructions. I can neither restore it from the CD drive, or floppy, or usb flash mem. I wish I had equipment to reprogram that EEPROM or flash memory or whatever that chip is, but alas, I do not. Any other ideas? Whoever figures this out should get extra props.

PS Yeah what is up with that no firewire crap? lol, punks

 

[SLM Crew Chief]

That was my only guess. I've been lucky and never had a flash go bad but a friend of mine did on another ASUS board and he had the same problem. It won't restore either. My only other suggestion is to maybe look on the ASUS boards and see if you can find out something there or try to get ahold of their tech support.

As to the no firewire, I think the whole point to this board was just to get somthing out fast and cheap that would support SLI. I'm only running this board for a little while longer. It's SLOW on top of everything else. The ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP has gotten some good reviews but I've read that the 680i boards (590 w/ improved memory controller) should be out in November. I'm gonna hold out and see what kind of reviews those get. It really sucks having two BFG 7900 GTX OC's and not having full x16 x16 speed.