Hey all,
First off, 'System info' should be in my profile.
Yesterday i was checking my email and watching a video on you-tube when suddenly I got a blue screen. At this time, it showed a memory dump go form 0-100%. I don't really remember much else besides that. But seconds after, my screen goes black. I anticipated a reboot to follow up like it normally would, but it remained a black screen so I hit the restart button and all I saw was:
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Award BootBock BIOS v1.0
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting IDE ATAPI device ...
Found CDROM, try to boot from it ...Fail
INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND PRESS ENTER
___________________________________
Some extra information:
-I did overclock my processor about 4 months ago from 2.4 to 3.0 without any thermal paste =P and then more recently, I OC'ed it to 3.2 about 2-3 weeks ago. From what I can remember, I don't think the CPU temps ever went over 55C. But, I've had it OC'ed for a while, so wouldn't this have happened a long time ago?
-My computer is always on 24/7.
-It is a custom machine I built myself no more than a year ago.
-While I was browsing other sites to find a solution to this problem many people that had the same error said that they can go into their BIOS by pressing F1 or DEL but, I do not have any options other than "insert a disc and pray"...
I did some research on this error message yesterday and today. I can tell you what I did to try and fix this issue:
-I removed CMOS battery and then replaced it after 10 mins. Nothing different happened.
-I did not replace the CMOS battery with a fresh one since the computer is so new. I could not imagine that It would be defective already.
-I reapplied thermal paste... (well, in my case, applied thermal paste to the CPU). Nothing different happened.
-Used Phoenix Award BIOS flash tool to flash the BIOS (did not want to do this at first since i am working with an OC'ed motherboard). This was strange. I have flashed my BIOS before in the past but I did it through the utility called ASUS EasyFlash or somthing like that located in the BIOS. So, I inserted the CD that came with my motherboard to flash the bios and I hit "Enter". All I got was the AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen that read: "Flash Type -" and underneath it read: "File Name to Program: (and in the grey box it said: ) P5ND.BIN". At the bottom of the AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen there was a message box that flashed "Please Wait!". So I waited about 15-20 mins before I decided that this is not working and I turned off my machine. Minutes later, I tried this again by putting AWDFLASH v1.34 and the newest BIOS verson on the asus website (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx) but all I got was a screen that was pretty much the same thing as the last AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen except the grey box in which the user would input the .BIN file was blank and I could not type in anything for some reason my keyboard does not work at this screen. But that extra fun "Please Wait!" message was still at the bottom of the screen flashing its ass off.
I tried to look up more info about the flashing "Please Wait!" message but I could not find any extra informaton.
I am really running out of ideas to fix my machine. Please help me out guys!
-Dan
First off, 'System info' should be in my profile.
Yesterday i was checking my email and watching a video on you-tube when suddenly I got a blue screen. At this time, it showed a memory dump go form 0-100%. I don't really remember much else besides that. But seconds after, my screen goes black. I anticipated a reboot to follow up like it normally would, but it remained a black screen so I hit the restart button and all I saw was:
___________________________________
Award BootBock BIOS v1.0
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting IDE ATAPI device ...
Found CDROM, try to boot from it ...Fail
INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND PRESS ENTER
___________________________________
Some extra information:
-I did overclock my processor about 4 months ago from 2.4 to 3.0 without any thermal paste =P and then more recently, I OC'ed it to 3.2 about 2-3 weeks ago. From what I can remember, I don't think the CPU temps ever went over 55C. But, I've had it OC'ed for a while, so wouldn't this have happened a long time ago?
-My computer is always on 24/7.
-It is a custom machine I built myself no more than a year ago.
-While I was browsing other sites to find a solution to this problem many people that had the same error said that they can go into their BIOS by pressing F1 or DEL but, I do not have any options other than "insert a disc and pray"...
I did some research on this error message yesterday and today. I can tell you what I did to try and fix this issue:
-I removed CMOS battery and then replaced it after 10 mins. Nothing different happened.
-I did not replace the CMOS battery with a fresh one since the computer is so new. I could not imagine that It would be defective already.
-I reapplied thermal paste... (well, in my case, applied thermal paste to the CPU). Nothing different happened.
-Used Phoenix Award BIOS flash tool to flash the BIOS (did not want to do this at first since i am working with an OC'ed motherboard). This was strange. I have flashed my BIOS before in the past but I did it through the utility called ASUS EasyFlash or somthing like that located in the BIOS. So, I inserted the CD that came with my motherboard to flash the bios and I hit "Enter". All I got was the AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen that read: "Flash Type -" and underneath it read: "File Name to Program: (and in the grey box it said: ) P5ND.BIN". At the bottom of the AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen there was a message box that flashed "Please Wait!". So I waited about 15-20 mins before I decided that this is not working and I turned off my machine. Minutes later, I tried this again by putting AWDFLASH v1.34 and the newest BIOS verson on the asus website (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx) but all I got was a screen that was pretty much the same thing as the last AwardBIOS Flash Utility screen except the grey box in which the user would input the .BIN file was blank and I could not type in anything for some reason my keyboard does not work at this screen. But that extra fun "Please Wait!" message was still at the bottom of the screen flashing its ass off.
I tried to look up more info about the flashing "Please Wait!" message but I could not find any extra informaton.
I am really running out of ideas to fix my machine. Please help me out guys!
-Dan
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