Fixing the "Asus Motherboard overclocking failed" error message

[robertbhart]

From what I have read, it is a well documented issue with Asus motherboards. My PC was working fine until yesterday when I used it to test a graphics card (that was broken) from another pc. I had to cut the power due to no image being displayed. Now, when I turn it on (with the old working gpu) it fails to display an image until I hit reset. Then I get an image but I get the error message:

"Overclocking failed hit F1 to blah blah blah"

If I hit esq from the bios menu without changing anything, Windows loads normally but... when I restart if, it's back to square one - i.e, no image until I reset.

So, please can someone tell me which settings I need to change to make it work properly like it did yesterday?

 

[romirez]

Better to reflash bios using programmer.

 

[robertbhart]

Better to reflash bios using programmer.

Please can you elaborate? I am not familiar with "programmer".


To be honest, I haven't updated the motherboard bios for a while. I usually take the "if it ain't broke" approach with updates, given that updates of any sort rarely deliver a noticeable benefit and frequently cause problems (that then requires another update).

If I update the bios, will it just fix any issues with overclocking failiure?

 

[racksmith101]

Try going into the bios and reset to default, save and exit. See if that fixes the problem. You don't need a programmer to reflash the bios, just a USB stick and the bios file.

 

[romirez]

reflash is NOT update, you *censored*

 

[racksmith101]

You still don't need a programmer to reflash the bios. Just DL the version already present and reflash it via a USB stick.

 

[romirez]

USB bios update will only do partialy overwrite of bios CHIP - will barely help.