BIOS Updates forum

I have checked that board on the ECS website also. ECS changed URLs on me. What I discovered though after I got to the site is that if you select the rev 2 board the same BIOS update is listed for the rev 2 board as for the rev 1 board - 5.6 - seems all the same. So apparently that update is not exa...

The message you are getting maybe a strange message meaning that the BIOS cannot identify the boot files, or that the harddrive is unpartitioned or unformatted. Do you have any data on the drive that you need? I ADVISE YOU DO NOT DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING IF YOU REQUIRE DATA FROM YOUR HARD DRIVE. If y...

I back fully what Toby says. Changing hardware, especially main boards which are at the core of the system and frequently have an architecture that encourage Windows device settings with often minor changes is asking for trouble if you try to avoid reformatting your hard drive. Just make sure you do...

I am no expert in this area but since high speed interconnectivity options are available such as ethernet, usb and firewire it may be better to connect them using one of these methods and then see what software is available that may possibly be able to drive 2 or more machines toghether as some kind...

I'm not sure the board would only have ISA slots. Every Pentium supporting board I have come across includes at least a few PCI slots and a friend has a 486 board with three PCI slots. I agree though the board is not recognising the video card. Question is why - I agree on this also. I would check t...

Glad to hear you got it working - From what I am hearing now I am starting to get a little suspicious about the quality and handling of these Asus boards, even though I previously believed they were pretty much excellent.

Are you familiar with the keyboard lock? The little keyhole on the cases of older PCs? If this is switched to the lock position you cannot operate the keyboard. Do you have a key for it? Probably would have been supplied with the PC? Otherwise disconnecting the appropriate connector on the mainboard...

Could be a relatively new manufacturer if not listed and since it is using v6.00 (I think only more recent boards use this as opposed to 4.51). Nothing printed or stuck on board to identify? Also, maybe if you have a manual or driver CD that came with the board, take a browse through those and they ...

I recently supplied a system to someone that I built using a P4P800S board. The first board turned out to be faulty. The wholesaler I got the board from told me that they know that in general Asus boards are very good boards and people don't usually have any problems with them, except that for some ...

Maybe the battery is not making proper contact with the connectors in the holder. Check that and if possible hold the battery in place and apply a little pressure (not too much to damage anything!) while you save the settings (hopefully this is not too difficult to do with only two hands) just to se...

OK Kachi - Thanks to your private messages I got the program and here are the results as requested for anyone who is interested. ************************************************************* PROCESSOR AND CACHE INFO c't 01/00/ Andreas Stiller V1.7a Processor Timing : am6k86 Processor CPUID : Authent...

I just had a look on MSI's web site to see what I could find out about this board. Socket 7 board, so possibly it is old enough to have developed a fault. Also noticed that a BIOS update corrects an issue related to entering BIOS setup with a USB keyboard. If you by any chance have a USB kb installe...

I am suspecting a faulty main board, but would try: * Removing all cards from the system temporarily, including video if the main board has on-board video. * Then reseating RAM and video card several times; see then if any better. * Maybe a bad RAM chip or bad video card. Try a spare known good RAM ...

I have a feeling that that mobo you are dealing with is basically dead and has a fault which is causing your problems and which will probably also cause other weird and random type behavior. I would be tempted to chuck that board at this stage.

Sometimes there are different revision mainboards within the same model and only certain flashes will work with certain ones. If this is the case the web site should be documenting this and you then need to be careful to match up the revision as well as the model. What I am saying is maybe the three...