EDIT: I just noticed another thread about this very same problem - sorry, didn't do my homework first.
Hi,
I've been testing out overclocking on my new system for the past few days:
Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2
Athlon 64 3000+ 90nm
2x512MB OCZ EL Platinum Edition Rev2
OCZ PowerStream 520W
The processor overclocked fairly well, hitting a stable 2.5GHz. I've been fighting to try to get my RAM to OC at all, though. For a while, it would hardly budge 10MHz past 200 - this, of course, being RAM that by all accounts should hit over 300. Just today, I decided to try flashing my BIOS to the newer 1008.002 beta version. This didn't seem to have any effect, so I finally tried disabling my SATA and RAID controllers (which I wasn't using anyway) through the BIOS, and had just started to have some success with my RAM, when disaster struck. I'd set 280x9 with memory at 1:1, and rebooted to see if it would work - I then saw a message saying "Bad BIOS checksum", or something to that effect, and watched as the BIOS was apparently restored from CD (I just happened to have the Asus CD-ROM in my drive at the time). When restoration was complete, I saw a message telling me to reboot the system for the restored BIOS to take effect - so I did, and then... nothing. To my horror, the system now refuses to display anything at all to the screen when powered up - no initial video card details, nothing. I've tried resetting CMOS several times, but no dice. At this point, I really don't know what to do. Is the board simply fried? Is there nothing I can do? Should I RMA it? If the BIOS is really still corrupt, how can it be repaired if the system won't display anything to the screen?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
windex256
Hi,
I've been testing out overclocking on my new system for the past few days:
Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2
Athlon 64 3000+ 90nm
2x512MB OCZ EL Platinum Edition Rev2
OCZ PowerStream 520W
The processor overclocked fairly well, hitting a stable 2.5GHz. I've been fighting to try to get my RAM to OC at all, though. For a while, it would hardly budge 10MHz past 200 - this, of course, being RAM that by all accounts should hit over 300. Just today, I decided to try flashing my BIOS to the newer 1008.002 beta version. This didn't seem to have any effect, so I finally tried disabling my SATA and RAID controllers (which I wasn't using anyway) through the BIOS, and had just started to have some success with my RAM, when disaster struck. I'd set 280x9 with memory at 1:1, and rebooted to see if it would work - I then saw a message saying "Bad BIOS checksum", or something to that effect, and watched as the BIOS was apparently restored from CD (I just happened to have the Asus CD-ROM in my drive at the time). When restoration was complete, I saw a message telling me to reboot the system for the restored BIOS to take effect - so I did, and then... nothing. To my horror, the system now refuses to display anything at all to the screen when powered up - no initial video card details, nothing. I've tried resetting CMOS several times, but no dice. At this point, I really don't know what to do. Is the board simply fried? Is there nothing I can do? Should I RMA it? If the BIOS is really still corrupt, how can it be repaired if the system won't display anything to the screen?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
windex256
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