problem after bios flash please help

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nezzy_dawg

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well i decided to flash my motherboard(asus p5b-vm) with the program that comes with it after a fresh intall of windows . now when i turn on my computer is says....
cmos settings wrong
cmos date/time not set
overlocking failed(wtf im not overlcoking nothing lol) please reconfigure your system
warning due to requirment ir intel quiet sytem technology, please intall memoryin dimm_a1 or dimm_a2, or sytem will not be stable(ram worked fine before)
fatal error.... system halted , how can i reset the bios to what the motheboard came with ???

thnks for youy help in advance
leon
 
i would try. may not work. but eather find the reset switch. (neat the silver butten battery) should be a jummper. or take the battery out and unplug the power and press the power butten and wait for a min. place back in and plug everything in
 
i tried to reflahs it with ez-flash 2 but it wont reaad the disc , how do i burn a dsic that it can read??? anybody know
somebody please help lol
been without computer for 4 days and it's kind of important cause i need it for school
 
Well I would just do what you did to make the first CD. If it still doesnt work you might have just destroyed your motherboard.
 
I think if a BIOS flash fails, you're mainboard is pretty much pooched.

The CMOS, which you are updating when you flash your BIOS is the first thing to run when you turn your computer on and it detects your hardware. If your CMOS cannot run, it cannot detect hardware and your system will do nothing.

If anyone disagrees with that, please correct me.
 
how coould a bios flash destroy a motherboard lol,thats stupid since the bios up date was from the asus website lol and averything whats the deal
tried everything , taking the cmos batery out for 10 minuts, trying 3 differnt bios s so took my video card our and ethernet card out, put it back in , tried puttig the ram in differnt slots so now i have no clue what to do
how could a bios flash do this lol, i was just trying to stay current with my apdates and this is what happens

still get the same message as above
 
nezzy_dawg said:
...i was just trying to stay current with my apdates and this is what happens...
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Staying current with updates is great for software programs, but updating things like firmware and BIOS ROM's should be a last resort to fix a functionality you do not have, but need. And you want to be very sure that the BIOS upgrade will give you the functionality you are looking for because if it goes wrong, it goes wrong!.

For instance I recently flashed my BIOS because my MB said it supported 2GB of RAM, but when I tried to install it it only recognized 256MB total. A BIOS upgrade fixed that.

I've seen a few times on this forum where someone is having a problem and the first advice they are given is to flash their BIOS. Let me repeat: Last Resort.

When it comes to hardware, don't try to fix what isn't broke. Also if something worked before, and then stopped working, a hardware firmware update isn't the issue because it worked before without the update.
 
nezzy_dawg, even if the power in your house dipped or sagged a second, there's a chance your perfectly good BIOS update will have failed and trashed your motherboard. It doesn't matter even if the update is the exact right one for your motherboard; the slightest mistake and you're left with a paperweight. This is why most pros who flash BIOSes for their customers connect the PC to an uninterruptible and filtered AC power supply/backup battery unit.

Some BIOS update routines offer you the chance to back up your previous BIOS. I sure hope that yours did and you took advantage of it.

This is why what munkyeetr said is 100% true: a BIOS update is only done as a last resort. Many times it's better to live with something that's not quite perfect rather than risk ruining everything. I'm sorry. :(

Tom
 
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