Directions for Flashing an Asus A8V to support 90nm CPU's

[Godsmack74]

You can use a 90nm socket 939 chip to get it booted and flashed. You just have to do two things.
1. Reset the bios cmos. This is to ensure that the board boots from a floppy first.
2. Most importantly make sure you have only one stick of ram in mobo and make sure that stick is in B1 slot. Third from the left I believe. Check the motherboard manual for a graphic layout of the motherboard and it will show which slot is B1.

Start the computer, boot from a bootable floppy, then use another floppy with the new bios and the AFUdos.exe program on it, not ezflash.

Then type at the A prompt:

afudos.exe /ia8v1007.ami

It will erase, then write your bios.

Restart and go to bios and configure as you like. You may now put in additional sticks of ram to get dual channel.

Works here just fine. This is the procedure for the Asus A8V I do not know if this will work in other motherboards, but I have heard similar stories of using one stick to get it up. My guess would be the only thing that needs to change for a different board would be the flash program and bios of course.

I am the Senior Editor of www.Techwarelabs.com , if anyone has further questioons or needs help feel free to send me an e-mail at Jason@techwarelabs.com

Hope this helps.Techwarelabs

 

[imported_Harbinger]

I do have A8V but I don thave 90nn cpu. I am just curious. With bios's prior to 1007 the pc posts but no video signal or something ?

 

[Godsmack74]

The PC will not post, and yes no video

 

[Appledrop]

but, with my a8v and a 3200+ 90nm, AND the ram in slot B1, i still get no video, so !?!?!, i havent cleared the CMOS, but that will do nothing whatsoever, since it has never been used, right - i got all my pc parts today,and it wont turn on.......



bahh

 

[arswihart]

CLEAR IT

 

[Godsmack74]

Word! clear that cmos. remove all cards but the vid. then boot.

 

[jyp]

Last night I ordered A64 3000+ 939 (retail) and I'm about to get ASUS A8V Deluxe rev.2.
I'm kind a nervous now... about this posting. Some say they had to go through several mb before it got posted...? Is A8V a quality MB?

Jason, is your method a sure way to get it posted? (I don't even know what posting means...I suppose it means to get the cpu recognized or something)

Ok. let me ask you step by step. I've build my current system, but I forgot everything..even boot disk.

What should the boot disk contain? Should I create a boot disk from any Windows XP?(I plan to run XP)
How should the system be? Connect HD,Video Card, Memory?

Thanks in advance.

 

[gumba]

I had alot of problems with my board geting past the post check I couldn't use the dual channel mode then i flashed the bios I used 1007 downloaded from asus.com I did it the way it say in the book by renameing the file a8v.rom putting it on a floppy rebooting and hitting alt and f2 then I just sat back and let it fly,oh and yes I had one stick of ram in the b1 slot. As well as everything was hooked upvideo card harddrives dvdrom and dvd rw

 

[Godsmack74]

jyp

 

[Godsmack74]

jyp,

Not to worry, the directions I gave do indeed work as well does the enaming of the bios file and hitting F2. this will work in your motherboard as its a rev2.0 board. You may be lucky and get one with the 1007 bios already installed. If not contact me and I will walk you through getting the board up and running.

AIM: JasnTWL

 

[gibbsk]

Thanks Jason for the post on how to solve this problem. I will also try to do what you say, and if it doesn't work then I might be contacting you as well (if that's OK). I wanted to get the 90nm, but I was really sweating this BIOS issue. Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[Deja Vu]

Hey everyone, Im new here. I just received my A8V and 90nm Athlon 3200+. I followed the instructions for flashing the BIOS just as described on this page, but after the computer restarted itself it nothing came up at all. Before restarting, it did say "Flashed Successfully." so Im pretty sure it worked correctly. However, I get no error messages, no beeping, etc. Did the flash screw up my BIOS? I really dont feel like waiting around for another chip to get shipped here, so I hope thats not the case. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[madbomber1]

I had nearly the same problem with my BIOS when I got this board. I did update it to version 1007 and I get a error that says "CMOS Checksum Bad" and then it gives me the option to go into the BIOS or use default settings and from there it boots into windows fine, unitl i reset it or turn it off. Then I have to remove the cmos battery to reset everything and then i go through all that again to get to a desktop. I did call and have a relpacement board on the way so I hope that one works like it should.

Asus A8V Deluve
Athlon 64 3400+
1Gig Kingston HyperX Cas2
Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT OC 256
Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition

 

[hawksballer]

Has anyone done it with a MSI Neo board yet?

 

[Xatrix]

What kind of bootdisk do I need to create?

To clear CMOS I set the jumper... then turn on PC?

Thanks,

 

[Xatrix]

Never mind I think I figured how I do all that =)

If you need help like me look here

 

[Zebo]

Is this board even worth a crap? Highest OC FSB i see is around 250FSB stable???

Thanks for the heads up though. planning on K8NS ULTRA I think though due to $113 and NF3 chipset.