My Asus A7V600-X board died last weekend:
- Booted up..
BIOS Messages font is corrupted
Shutdown
Reseat GPU, CPU Ram etc.
Boot up,
No POST.
Beep pattern of 1 second ON, 1 second OFF continuously
on 2 Intel PIII boards:
If I try to detect Chip type, "I'm told that Write protect may be disabled".
If I force type 9D6D (PM49fl002t) then I can flash the bootblock, but not the main BIOS file.
My only other machine to try this out is a Biostar with an nForce2 chipset, which according to UNIFLASH website might not work.
On Biostar, UNIFLASH can't read from floppy, so I use USB, which it can read but can't flash without verification errors.
Needless to say the Asus utility AFLASH is useless, because it won't let me hot flash on another board.
I could really do with getting this board working again, or at least confirming that the bios is NOT the issue
Any suggestions warmly received.
alasdair