ASUS/AMD hardware conflict
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:13 am
Hi, I'm trying to solve an issue with my Asus K7V RM motherboard and my AMD Athlon 1Ghz processor. When the CPU is installed, the board won't boot. Both components test good with other systems I have here in the house, so neither one is fried.
Board's in “jumperfree” mode already, so according to the manual, it should autodetect, but it does not.
The next clue I have to go on from the manual is to update the BIOS. All well and good, and that's why I'm here, to locate the latest update, but something weird is going on as well.
When I started up the board with an old 600Mhz Athlon I had lying around to get the BIOS info for this post, The BIOS came up, gave me the “system intrude/ case previously opened” message, but it, and the BIOS screen in the background behind it have badly garbled text, Weird misspellings, like “Advacbed” ,”powar”, “Axit”, “F`oppy 3 Aode suoort” “secondary Slare”, Etc,etc.
This did NOT happen when I tested the board to make sure it wasn't dead.
Could this be an issue revolving around the fact that the BIOS needs to be updated? Obviously it's corrupted somehow, but I want to know whether or not updating will fix it, of is the problem going to require more intense measures to correct?
CAN it be corrected?
By the way, where do I FIND that update? Asus's site was no help. I can find the how-to information and perform the operation, but where do I download the actual update?
Bios is Medallion 6.0 revision 1003A.
Board's in “jumperfree” mode already, so according to the manual, it should autodetect, but it does not.
The next clue I have to go on from the manual is to update the BIOS. All well and good, and that's why I'm here, to locate the latest update, but something weird is going on as well.
When I started up the board with an old 600Mhz Athlon I had lying around to get the BIOS info for this post, The BIOS came up, gave me the “system intrude/ case previously opened” message, but it, and the BIOS screen in the background behind it have badly garbled text, Weird misspellings, like “Advacbed” ,”powar”, “Axit”, “F`oppy 3 Aode suoort” “secondary Slare”, Etc,etc.
This did NOT happen when I tested the board to make sure it wasn't dead.
Could this be an issue revolving around the fact that the BIOS needs to be updated? Obviously it's corrupted somehow, but I want to know whether or not updating will fix it, of is the problem going to require more intense measures to correct?
CAN it be corrected?
By the way, where do I FIND that update? Asus's site was no help. I can find the how-to information and perform the operation, but where do I download the actual update?
Bios is Medallion 6.0 revision 1003A.
