re: Won't boot Windows after BIOS flash
Monday, March 5, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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Posted by FreonStud
(31 messages posted)
Ed, I thought it went without saying that "me 2005" would be taken for WINDOWS XP
MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005. Guess not. As stated before the BIOS was NOT wrong. I
have flashed many times using the BIOS portion of the Asus site. Anyway, the Board
itself is a M2n32-sli deluxe with the Nvidia 590 SLI chipset. I RMA'd it again
because i felt the first one they sent me was used and damaged.(no box,thermal paste
near socket etc.) Once I installed the new one i flashed using the same floppy as
i did before and she worked just fine :) Thanks for you help.
On Monday, March 5, 2007 at 9:16 am, Ed wrote:
>I've waited a few days, before posting again, in case anyone else had any better
>solutions to suggest. But it seems no one else has.
>
>The confusion, unfortunately, continues. There is no such O/S as "ME 2005". There
>is only Windows Millenium, launched in the year 2000. You need to be very accurate
>with your terminology, or it will be impossible to give you any usable advice.
>
>I want to repeat the most important part of what I said originally: if Windows won't
>boot, you have installed an incompatible ("wrong") BIOS.
>
>This is down to the engineering of your motherboard. Your original BIOS version
was
>engineered specifically for the set of components (chipset) that the motherboard
>manufacturer used on that board. It is perfectly possible that the BIOS was unique
>to that board, if the board uses a non-standard chipset configuration.
>
>The BIOS software is written without specific knowledge of what components are in
>use on your m/board. So updates to the BIOS may not work, if the board manufacturer
>"cheated" a little, by tweaking the original BIOS to work with its board.
>
>To re-write the BIOS is possible, but it takes a lot of programming ability. I know
>of one chap who re-wrote his BIOS, but it took him upwards of 30 hours to figure
>out what he needed to do.
>
>In practical terms, your m/board may have reached an age where it would make better
>sense to retire it, and buy a more modern board that comes with the advanced BIOS
>you now need.
>
>Ed
>
>
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