Got back home from work yesterday and jumped onto the PC ready for some BF2142. But before I started it up I go through my normal routine of checking all the forums and tech sites. One of which is the ASUS driver download site for the Stiker.
I click on latest drivers and low and behold there's a brand new BIOS (version 901) that I hadn't noticed the last time I was there. Released 14/02/07 AND it wasn't a BETA version of the BIOS, I stay far away from those BETA versions.
I promtly download said BIOS in the hope that they have fixed some of my OC-ing problems I've had and allow me to hit some higher clocks.
As I was about to haul out the old floppy drive I remembered that I had installed ASUS-Update ( the BIOS update proggy u can use in Windows to update your BIOS )
"w00tl3s!!" I said. This will be easy……… Now, if someone had pointed out that I'm using Vista and that using an update program in Vista, an OS system not even a month old which might not be such a good idea, I probably would have rethunk that course of action.
Started the program, selected update from file, selected Next, selected Flash. It did everything it was supposed to do. It erased fine, it flashed fine and it verified without any errors. Basically nothing I could see went wrong. After it finished Vista asked me if I wanted to restart the PC. I clicked yes and waited for the system to reboot……… nothing. The screen stays blank. I leave it for a couple of minutes thinking it might need a while. Still nothing. I pushed the reset button (yeah probably not such a good idea). The PC starts up I hear a click, everything goes off and then on really quickly. This repeats itself over and over and over again.
The PC doesn't POST at all.
The way I see it I'm gonna have to take it back to my supplier so that they can send it to ASUS here in South Africa.
But I'd like to know if anyone has any other suggestions.
PS: Oh and Hi, it's my first post here.
PPS: PC Specs:
ASUS Striker Extreme
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (was running at stock at the time of the incident)
4x 512MB Kingston Hyper X
XFX 8800GTX
AOpen 700Watt PSU
2x Seagate 80Gig HDDs running in RAID0
I click on latest drivers and low and behold there's a brand new BIOS (version 901) that I hadn't noticed the last time I was there. Released 14/02/07 AND it wasn't a BETA version of the BIOS, I stay far away from those BETA versions.
I promtly download said BIOS in the hope that they have fixed some of my OC-ing problems I've had and allow me to hit some higher clocks.
As I was about to haul out the old floppy drive I remembered that I had installed ASUS-Update ( the BIOS update proggy u can use in Windows to update your BIOS )
"w00tl3s!!" I said. This will be easy……… Now, if someone had pointed out that I'm using Vista and that using an update program in Vista, an OS system not even a month old which might not be such a good idea, I probably would have rethunk that course of action.
Started the program, selected update from file, selected Next, selected Flash. It did everything it was supposed to do. It erased fine, it flashed fine and it verified without any errors. Basically nothing I could see went wrong. After it finished Vista asked me if I wanted to restart the PC. I clicked yes and waited for the system to reboot……… nothing. The screen stays blank. I leave it for a couple of minutes thinking it might need a while. Still nothing. I pushed the reset button (yeah probably not such a good idea). The PC starts up I hear a click, everything goes off and then on really quickly. This repeats itself over and over and over again.
The PC doesn't POST at all.
The way I see it I'm gonna have to take it back to my supplier so that they can send it to ASUS here in South Africa.
But I'd like to know if anyone has any other suggestions.
PS: Oh and Hi, it's my first post here.
PPS: PC Specs:
ASUS Striker Extreme
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (was running at stock at the time of the incident)
4x 512MB Kingston Hyper X
XFX 8800GTX
AOpen 700Watt PSU
2x Seagate 80Gig HDDs running in RAID0