Tech Support Guy banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

BIOS upgrade went bad, cant boot

977 views 2 replies 2 participants last post by  chrikima 
#1 ·
Hi there, who can help, please?

The computer is only a few weeks old and I had some CPU temperature reading issues with Asus PC Probe 2 and I thought that downloading a newer version PC Probe might do the trick.
The new PC Probe 2.250 did not install but required for the BIOS version (12/26/2005) to be updated with a BIOS version (09/22/97 or later?). Well, I could find no such thing but decided that the youngest BIOS P5(LGA775) Version 0702 would be fine.
Not so, the PC no longer boots and I think that some BIOS auto detection of IDE devises are of concern.

Primary IDE Master [Not Detected]
Primary IDE Slave [LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-]
Secondary IDE Master [ST3120023A] <this is actually HD 2, no OS
Secondary IDE Slave [Not Detected]
Third IDE Master [Not Detected]
Third IDE Slave [WDC WD2000JS-22MHB] <this is where the OS is, Win XP
Secondary IDE Master [Not Detected]
Secondary IDE Slave [Not Detected]

No trouble booting when hitting (F8) and manually selecting the boot devise.

Currently I have reinstalled the old BIOS but there were no changes to the above settings, the system will not boot unless I use the manually (F8) and select the boot drive.

Thank you very much for your effort.

Chris K.

PS. Here are a few more PC details:
Pentium 3.0 Dual Core / WIN XP Home 28 June 2006

Processor intel Pentium D 930 (Dual Core) 3.0 GHz
Motherboard ASUS P5V800-MX
Memory Lemel 1GB 184 pin PC3200 DDR400
Graphic Controller ASUS Radeon 9550/256MB DDR

Hard Disk 1 200GB Western Digital SATAII Caviar 7200RPM
C: Local 29 GB NTFS
D: Kinder 126 NTFS
E: Spare 30 NTFS

Hard Disk 2 120GB Seagate ST: 3120023A SN: 3KA15 LM3
F: Image 34.4GB NTFS
G: BackUp 34.1 NTFS
H: Archive 43.1 NTFS

Floppy A:
DVD I:
 
See less See more
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top