I've been having some serious trouble with my ASUS A78NX-E Deluxe mb (rev 1.01)... few days ago I turned it on and had some message about checksum error in the BIOS, after few resets the PC went back on and I decided to flash the BIOS in case it was corrupted... that was a real mistake...
Since that moment I haven't been able to get my PC up & running again. I've been reading different articles all over the net, specially some good posts here at wimsbios.com... I've been taking the battery off for hours, resetting many times, checking floppy disk, creating boot disks and so on...
I finally got to workarround the annoying BootBlock with dos-freak "awdblock" great utility... I couln't get uniflash to work so I'd have to work with the regular AWDFLASH 8.24B downloaded from ASUS website...
Now I'm stucked because the flash process fails every time (it shows some red blocks while trying to flash the BIOS chip) and I got this this message:
and this one:Flash ROM is Write-Protected
Here's an screenshot where you can see both messages:Please make sure whether lockout jumper is set correct or not
I've also downloaded different BIOS revisions to try, but nothing different...
The great thing is that this mb doesn't have any lockout jumpers (at least not that I'm aware of) and I don't know for sure if I should give up on this and get the RMA for the mb or buy the BIOS on badflash.com... I would rather fix it myself since I live outside US and I'd be a real problem to have a RMA from ASUS...
Well, I'll be happy to hear from any of you guys because I'm kinda lost now...
Thanks!!!