Blank screen after flashing BIOS

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Hi,

Just after I installed the motherboard, everything worked as expected: I
could enter the bios and boot my operating system.

The manual recommended updating the bios, so I downloaded revision 11 of the
a7v8x-x bios from the Asus website and updated using the ez-flash utility.
I rebooted the computer, but now it seemed to be very sluggish while
showing the big asus icon. While it waited only a split second when still
running the original bios, now there was a delay of +/- 5 seconds, and even
longer when I pressed some keys on my keyboard. It seemed as if a lot of
keystrokes were simply ignored: one had to get really lucky in order to
enter the bios or flash utility. It still booted fine though.

I decided to roll back to revision 3 of the bios which I downloaded from the
site too. This time I booted used from a Windows 98 CD and used the
AFlash.exe program. It gave me a warning that the bios I wanted to install
was older than the current one, but I installed it anyway. I rebooted
again, but now my screen remains entirely blank, no ouput at all! It
doesn't even seem to get any signal, since the led on my monitor remains
orange.

I have tried resetting the bios by removing the battery and setting the
short-out jumper, as described in the manual, but the problem remains.
Booting with a mininal configuration did not help things either. Any
thoughts on how to remedy the situation?

Thanks in advance,

Koen Vossen

 

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If all else fails go to www.badflash.com




"Koen Vossen" <dev@null.org> wrote in message
news:aYANc.196680$K37.10085475@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Hi,
>
> Just after I installed the motherboard, everything worked as expected: I
> could enter the bios and boot my operating system.
>
> The manual recommended updating the bios, so I downloaded revision 11 of
the
> a7v8x-x bios from the Asus website and updated using the ez-flash utility.
> I rebooted the computer, but now it seemed to be very sluggish while
> showing the big asus icon. While it waited only a split second when still
> running the original bios, now there was a delay of +/- 5 seconds, and
even
> longer when I pressed some keys on my keyboard. It seemed as if a lot of
> keystrokes were simply ignored: one had to get really lucky in order to
> enter the bios or flash utility. It still booted fine though.
>
> I decided to roll back to revision 3 of the bios which I downloaded from
the
> site too. This time I booted used from a Windows 98 CD and used the
> AFlash.exe program. It gave me a warning that the bios I wanted to install
> was older than the current one, but I installed it anyway. I rebooted
> again, but now my screen remains entirely blank, no ouput at all! It
> doesn't even seem to get any signal, since the led on my monitor remains
> orange.
>
> I have tried resetting the bios by removing the battery and setting the
> short-out jumper, as described in the manual, but the problem remains.
> Booting with a mininal configuration did not help things either. Any
> thoughts on how to remedy the situation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Koen Vossen

 

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

This once happened to me with another motherboard so I just reflashed the
bios effectively blind i.e. with the black screen. It worked!

"Koen Vossen" <dev@null.org> wrote in message
news:aYANc.196680$K37.10085475@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Hi,
>
> Just after I installed the motherboard, everything worked as expected: I
> could enter the bios and boot my operating system.
>
> The manual recommended updating the bios, so I downloaded revision 11 of
the
> a7v8x-x bios from the Asus website and updated using the ez-flash utility.
> I rebooted the computer, but now it seemed to be very sluggish while
> showing the big asus icon. While it waited only a split second when still
> running the original bios, now there was a delay of +/- 5 seconds, and
even
> longer when I pressed some keys on my keyboard. It seemed as if a lot of
> keystrokes were simply ignored: one had to get really lucky in order to
> enter the bios or flash utility. It still booted fine though.
>
> I decided to roll back to revision 3 of the bios which I downloaded from
the
> site too. This time I booted used from a Windows 98 CD and used the
> AFlash.exe program. It gave me a warning that the bios I wanted to install
> was older than the current one, but I installed it anyway. I rebooted
> again, but now my screen remains entirely blank, no ouput at all! It
> doesn't even seem to get any signal, since the led on my monitor remains
> orange.
>
> I have tried resetting the bios by removing the battery and setting the
> short-out jumper, as described in the manual, but the problem remains.
> Booting with a mininal configuration did not help things either. Any
> thoughts on how to remedy the situation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Koen Vossen