Have I just killed my Asus P5B-Deluxe/Wifi?

[CM4]

Hi guys,

With the Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 processor getting quite affordable, I decided to upgrade the E6600 in my Asus P5B-Deluxe/Wifi motherboard to this new chip. I installed it and everything seemed to go fine apart from an error on system POST saying something about unable to identify CPU ucode. I thought I would update the BIOS to correct this issue. The Bios on my system was from April and on the Asus website their was a new BIOS download (1226). I downloaded this and used Asus Update (I have Vista x64) as I normally do and did the update.

- The EPROM was erased -100%
- The New BIOS was written - 100%
- When it came to verifying, it got to 20% and then said "unable to verify".

I tried to retry a few times but it would not work. So I thought I would close the program and try again. Now whenever I try to run AsusUpdate I get the error "Unable to get BIOS information" and then it crashes!!

I am too scared to restart the PC incase it doesn't post!

Please help! What can I do?? Their must be a way around this.

Any help appreciated!
Thanks

 

[CM4]

anybody?

 

[VirtualLarry]

You better pray that you didn't erase the bootblock. If you have a floppy drive, investigate how to perform a bios recovery (blind). Some BIOSes will attempt to auto-update the bios from a floppy if the BIOS is showing as corrupted.

If the BIOS is socketed, I'd start ordering another replacement BIOS chip from a place like biosman or the like.

See this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2149336&enterthread=y

 

[CM4]

Thanks for the link Larry I don't have a floppy drive.

My motherboard seems to have "Asus Crash Free BIOS 3" which I shall investigate. To be honest I am too scared to reboot the PC (its been on for two days now).......lol

Simply restore corrupted BIOS data from USB flash disk
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to restore corrupted BIOS data from a USB flash disk containing the BIOS file. This utility saves users the cost and hassle of buying a replacement BIOS chip.

Anybody successfully used ASUS CrashFree BIOS then?

 

[jedisponge]

You can also do it with a flash drive.