FYI: CUSL2 Bios 1001.A Users

[ceraph]

If you've never flashed your BIOS from 1001.A to any of the 1002 betas, you still have to reset your BIOS after the flash. (ie, pull out the battery, short the sauder points.) There was something about someone saying you could hold down INSERT and it would do it -- well, it didn't.

The problem must be something with the VGA Bios differences between the 1001.A BIOS and all the 1002* BIOS's. Ah well.

I had never had problems (other than CPU temp) with the 1001.A BIOS, but I decided that tonight would have been as a good a night as any to open the case, so I did the BIOS update.

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ceraph

 

[sternfan1]

I wish I would have read this a week ago, I had a rough day at work I was tired cranky and sucked down a few beers then flashed it. Bank no video, I tried the onboard video and never
pulled the battery, replaced the board only to read this. Is everyone having this problem.

 

[fishoil]

I must be lucky....flashed last night to 1002 and it booted right up into AGP no problems no pulling the battery......

 

[ZeroBurn]

some people have to reset the bios and some don't, however most do. the point is it's not a screwed flash, just reset the bios

 

[AndyHui]

I wish ASUS would put some sort of notification about the possible "problem" on their BIOS page.....it would save people a lot of grief to know that it's not a dead board and just needs a BIOS reset.

 

[rkoenn]

I had very similar problems. If it helps anyone, I did the flash and the flasher reported everything fine. I then rebooted to a blank screen. Really thought it had screwed the flash up completely and with the soldered CMOS chip, I thought it was going to be return time and service charge. However, I read this board this morning and had tried everything, including removing the battery overnight with no luck. I then did the final thing by using a pair of pliers to jumper the two solder points where the CMOS clear jumper was supposed to be (WHY THE HECK DIDN'T THEY PUT THE JUMPER IN THERE?) Fired the system up and couldn't believe I had a display on the screen. What a relief. I would have cleared the CMOS before if they jumper had been there, but with it not being installed, I assumed it was disfunctional. Now I can only assume Asus engineering is disfunctional. Anyway, still have lock ups during system boot if the memory settings are set at PC133 (even though I am using PC133 memory), but setting them back to 100 with the 800EB CPU and the system seems rock solid. The ECP/EPP parallel port works with my NEC Laser now which it didn't with my Abit SE6 board. Overall, this board seems a bit more stable then the Abit. Enough rambling, if you flash and have similar problems, just jump the CMOS clear solder points and it should work.

 

[Gunner]

The comments regarding the CUSL2 are interesting. I recently flashed a P2B-F board and have what sounds like the same type of situation. Does anyone know if there are short points or a jumper on the P2B-F board to fix something along these lines?

Thanks for your comments.

 

[Taric]

I just posted in one of the other cusl2 threads about the flashing, but, basically if you set the bios to enable onboard vga and use pci before agp, then it seemed to correct the problem for me and I never had to even open my case.

 

[NOS]

I also updated my bios from 1001a to 1002 and had no problems. I guess i got lucky!

 

[Painman]

I've updated my BIOS several times, never ran into this bug. Must be hardware specific...

-Pain

 

[bonkers325]

tee hee i won flash anything till asus gets it right
got abit suck asus

 

[ceraph]

Well the comment was for updating from 1001.A to the final 1002 BIOS, so Asus did get it right (at least for what they fixed with the release.) They still haven't fixed the cold-boot for OC'ers yet, but that wasn't one of their listed fixes.

The problem with the video comes from what your setup is prior to the flash. The way that 1001.A handles VGA is to let you disable/enable the onboard VGA -- in theory allowing two separate BIOSes to load.

What was changed in the 1002 BIOS was the removal of enable/disable for the onboard video, and the addition of a "VGA BIOS" select between Onboard/PCI/AGP.

If you're already at a 1002 beta level and you're flashing to another 1002 level, then you shouldn't have this problem because it was changed in the first beta. It really depends on your video configuration for if you're going to have this problem after updating from the 1001.A BIOS to the 1002 FINAL.

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ceraph

 

[Binky]

My CUSL2 had the no video problem after a flash to 1002. I fought with it for a bit, tried to figure out where the f&%$ the CMOS jumper was, drank a few more beers, then stuck the damned thing back in the shipping box. It was a basket case anyway. This POS couldn't run my 600E at 800mhz with any voltage. Several other boards have run this same CPU at 800mhz with 1.65V. Bah!

 

[masterskartrg]

heres what i do and seems like no problems. before you flash go to bios and set to defalut setup in bios and i think there shouldnt be a problem. as i just updated my friends cusl2 and my doing the same thing and need not have to pull the battery at all