System Shuts Down after BIOS changes

[pixelsurgeon]

I've bought this brand new P5E3 Premium Wifi-AP@n board, Gigabyte 9800GTX, two 1GB DDR3 1333 Corsair units, Q6600 G0, two (not RAID) WD 500GB AAKS SE disk drives, and Corsair HX620w PSU.

I was excited by the great possibilities of my new system and especially encouraged by the incredible overclocking reviews of my new board.

The problem is that even a simple time/date change shuts down my pc for about 5 seconds after pressing F10 (save & exit), then restarts, but there's no video and both mouse and keyboard doesn't light.

I have to press the power button to turn it off and back on. Then, with all the periphericals back to life, it shows me a message "Overclock have failed" where I can press F1 to change the settings manually or F2 to restore system default values.

I've flashed the board successfully with the latest 0204 BIOS version (the previous version have the same issue).

Could anyone help me? I've searched for answers all over the internet and only found people with the same issue/problem and no answers.

I'm from Portugal, so I apologize for my English.

 

[Harvey]

Two questions:

1. Have you tried using the jumper to clear the CMOS? Some boards can act strangely after flashing if you don't.

2. Is there a version of their BIOS flashing software that allows you to do it from a boot to DOS? If so, even if you don't have a floppy drive, if your board is new enough to allow booting from a flash drive, there's an HP utility you can download that will allow you to create a DOS bootable flash drive.

Download it, here.

This file contains the HP USB disk storage format tool V2.0.6 HPUSBFW.exe (renamed hpflash1.exe) and the root directory files needed for booting to DOS 7 from Windows 98 SE.

Good luck.

 

[pixelsurgeon]

Hi Harvey, thanks for your answer.

1. I've read that people having the very same issue with this motherboard had to clear the CMOS to get the system back on with all the periphericals responding well. Unfortunately, the jumper is no more than a recovery solution. It doesn't help solving the main problem.

2. I'm not sure if i understood your sugestion. The problem shouldn't be the BIOS flashing process, but the BIOS it self. I've emailed ASUS asking for a solution, probably a different BIOS, but I just can't understand how Anandtech and other prestigious web sites could give this board so many golden stars for overclocking ability, when there are a lot of people that can't touch the BIOS. Which BIOS was used on those reviews that made me buy this product?

If there is someone out there overclocking this board, I would like to know what I'm doing wrong.

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: pixelsurgeon
Hi Harvey, thanks for your answer.

1. I've read that people having the very same issue with this motherboard had to clear the CMOS to get the system back on with all the periphericals responding well. Unfortunately, the jumper is no more than a recovery solution. It doesn't help solving the main problem.

If the BIOS works correctly after clearing it, there's no problem, other than they should include a note about it in their instructions. Once you've cleared it, the machine will be working sith the new BIOS.

2. I'm not sure if i understood your sugestion. The problem shouldn't be the BIOS flashing process, but the BIOS it self.

If you can boot the machine so it's stable at the DOS prompt, you can download the the last version that worked for you. Check the manual. The original version may even be on the CD that came with your board.

I've emailed ASUS asking for a solution, probably a different BIOS, but I just can't understand how Anandtech and other prestigious web sites could give this board so many golden stars for overclocking ability, when there are a lot of people that can't touch the BIOS. Which BIOS was used on those reviews that made me buy this product?

AT probably reviewed the board with an earlier BIOS and didn't encounter your problems.

Hope that helps.