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More info?)
Hi Paul
The bios on my Asus board was 1008 which worked of course.
I am a bit nervous about flashing this one, which is 1012.
I was hoping that there would be a configuration setting that needs
changing.
This bios has a boot for a scsi or raid card, so I wonder if there had
been problems before.
Any other ideas?
Jim
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:nospam-0510042201290001@192.168.1.177...
> In article <XNGdnVwa1s-ykP7cRVnyhg@pipex.net>, "Jim"
> <jimbaker3@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an Adaptec 39320 R scsi card which I have put into this mobo.
> > It will not boot beyond the DMI Pool boot and just hangs.
> > I have disabled the Sata_EN1 to reduce memory usage. I am mystified
because
> > this board worked fine
> > in my previous mobo which was a A7N8X deluxe!!
> > Is there something simple I have overlooked!
> > The bios is a bit more comprehensive than in the old board, but have
tried
> > all combinations.
> > HELP please!!
>
> Perhaps an earlier BIOS version will help ? Something previous to
> the two pulled BIOS, 1009 and 1010, would be the thing to try.
> 1009 shipped with some boards, so if your board has 1009 in it,
> remember to backup the BIOS rom image with the flash utility before
> doing anything else. I just got the board, and it shipped with 1011
> in it.
>
> Now, the big question, is where to find the BIOS.
>
> ----------------------
> "Initial release"
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/C18E1006.zip
> ----------------------
> "1. Improve compatibility with certain memory modules"
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/C18E1007.zip
> ----------------------
> "1. Improve compatibility with certain memory modules"
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/C18E1008.zip
> ----------------------
> I tried a hack to find the release info for 1011. Take this link and
> put the name of the BIOS file at the end of the link:
>
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/descript.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=10&l3_id=23&m_id=5&key_f_name=C18E1011.zip
>
> "1. Fix ATI 9700 failed to boot when aperture size is changed.
> 2. Modify Max password number from 8 to 7."
>
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/C18E1011.zip
> ----------------------
> "1. Support AMD Sempron CPU"
>
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/1012_E.zip
> ----------------------
>
> You can also find 1006, 1007, 1008, 1011, and 1012 here. 1009 and
> 1010 were pulled. 1009 shipped in some boards, but cannot be the same
> 1009 as was on the download site, as it seems to work.
>
> ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/
>
> nforcershq is a great source of info for the various BIOS. Start here:
>
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/search.php
>
> In the "Search for Keywords" box, enter A7N8X-E and a BIOS number
> like 1011. Click "Search for all terms" and do the search. You may be
> able to find some comments about what works or doesn't on the
> various releases that way.
>
> It is possible the A7N8X-E BIOS started life as a A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0
> BIOS and that is the reason the release number starts at 1006. Take a
> look at your A7N8X Deluxe board and see if you can figure out what
> BIOS it was using. Perhaps a version as close as possible to it
> will work better.
>
> Just a guess,
> Paul
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