A7N8X-Deluxe won't boot up!

[Shagger]

I flashed the BIOS on my A7N8X-Deluxe 2.0 to 1.008 to try and use a 2TB WD drive. It worked for a little while, but was flaky on access to the SATA drives. I was going to update the driver for my SiI 3112 chip to a new driver but before I was able to it hung up in Windows. I forced a reset and now it will not boot at all. No POST beeps, nothing. The LED on the mobo is green. The fans and drives spool up, but no boot. I have removed / reseated the memory and the drive cables to no avail. I also removed the CMOS battery, power cable and reset the CMOS chip a few times. I am not sure on my next step. How can I tell if suddenly the Mobo wen't bad. All, I really want to do is flash the BIOS back to 1.007 and see if that will alleviate the problem.

I know this rig old, but it still works and I like it. Well, it USED to work... Anyone with some bright ideas?

 

[fluffmonster]

did you jumper the hdd to SATA I mode?

 

[SilentAssassin]

You aren't even able to get into the bios anymore? Or you just can't boot into windows? The only problems I ever had with my old A7N8X-Deluxe was the cmos battery needed to be replaced once, and my bios actually got corrupted somehow when saving and exiting out of bios. I had to remove the actual cmos chip and send it in to be reflashed.

 

[nenforcer]

Try removing all cards except video card and unplugging all optical / floppy drives and then see if you can even get into BIOS.

Also, how did you flash originally, from Windows or from a DOS floppy boot disk?

It sounds to me like the flash ROM got screwed up somehow.

 

[Oric]

I had a similar problem, it was the battery

 

[Iron Woode]

could be a PSU issue.

 

[Shagger]

did you jumper the hdd to SATA I mode?

The 2TB SATA drive is no longer connected, I had it connected to turn off the Intellipark feature for my Tivo upgrade. The bite was to even get my computer to recognize it, I had to flash to the newest BIOS.

 

[Shagger]

You aren't even able to get into the bios anymore? Or you just can't boot into windows? The only problems I ever had with my old A7N8X-Deluxe was the cmos battery needed to be replaced once, and my bios actually got corrupted somehow when saving and exiting out of bios. I had to remove the actual cmos chip and send it in to be reflashed.

I cannot get into BIOS or Windows. I will get a new CMOS battery and am looking at getting a new BIOS chip.

 

[Shagger]

Try removing all cards except video card and unplugging all optical / floppy drives and then see if you can even get into BIOS.

Also, how did you flash originally, from Windows or from a DOS floppy boot disk?

It sounds to me like the flash ROM got screwed up somehow.

I did try to remove all drives except for my two IDE ones, and the only card that is in there is the video card. I had used a DOS boot bisk prepped by Windows XP. When I rebooted from the flash, there were several beeps and it went into 'default' mode so I had to reset my multplier, etc...

 

[Shagger]

I removed the CPU to see if I could get ANY beep codes. I should get alternating high and low pitched beeps...

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/tp/award-beep-codes.htm

 

[nenforcer]

I just read about potential problems with 32 bit windows XP and 2TB and larger hard drives.

Seems there are major performance / compatibility issues since these drives use a 4Kb enhanced sector which none of the older software is optimized for.

Doesn't seem like this is your issue, however!

 

[colonel]

ground... maybe the board is touching ground somewhere in the case, it happen to me with Asus A7v133

 

[Shagger]

ok, I put in a new CMOS battery and bought a new BIOS chip. Put the both in and nothing. No beeps, nothing... I guess next I will remove the board from the case and try it that way... SIGH!

 

[Shagger]

I removed the board from the case and laid it on several anti-static bags. Still nothing! ARGH@!(*^#