k8v se deluxe failed to flash!! ****!

cbacba · 08-13-2004, 08:58 PM

Its de second time I have this mobo, the first time i get corrupted so I had to flash and it didn't work. Now I have a new mobo and it didn't detect the hdd so I tried to flash (factory bios was 1001 beta) and I tried 1004 but it ****ed up. This mobo is the worst I had. **** Ami bios, I never will buy any mobo with that bios. Award is much better then this ****.

If anyone has an idea how can i restore bios please help.

The moby only says cpu test failed now.

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cmay119 · 08-13-2004, 11:26 PM

I would contact ASUS asap about this and demand that they replace it. This is BS. I don't think I have heard of one succesful flash on a K8V SE Deluxe thus far. I'm not for the life of me going to flash this board. Also, I would maybe say F this, and go with a nForce3 mobo. Goodluck man, I'm sorry this crap has kept happening to you.

Tapir · 08-13-2004, 11:34 PM

What method did you use? Off the internet or with a floppy or from your hdd. Yes I have noted that this particular board is hassle when it comes to bios flashing. Personally I never recommend using internet to flash. Anyone ever tried to hot flash this type of bios?

Skrov · 08-14-2004, 06:54 AM

I´ve used the Asus update tool and had a couple of corrupted flashes with the K8V SEDX.Always got it to flash properly the second time.
Just pull the battery if nothing else works.Can´t recomend their latest Bios 1004 though since it seems to degrade the performance a bit.Went from 21100 (Bios 1003) something to 20700 3Dmark 2001 after repeted tests.

SaphireX · 08-14-2004, 07:05 PM

Hi cbacba

Sorry to hear that you are having so many problems with your board and what appears to be yet another customer who apparently has gotten a BAD BIOS chip on his board....In the ASUS Sub-Forum at the VIA Forums there are tooooo many folks who have flashed their "SE" BIOS only to have discovered that the machine would not post afterward. As I say at that Forum ..Contact ASUS Tech Support and speak to a supervisor if need be and let them know what happened and don't give up until you get ASUS to send you a new chip pre-flashed to the latest BIOS version for FREE!

Let them know that you are aware of this widespread problem and that it is a serious customer issue similar to the bad capacitors that afouled a few of the original K8V Deluxe Boards.....

A couple of the posters at the Via Forum reported back that they were sucessfull in getting ASUS to send them a replacement chip FREE of CHARGE!
Others tried but apparently were not so convincing and either bought a new BIOS chip from ASUS or bought one from www.badflash.com

As far as flashing your BIOS I highly recommend to d/l the BIOS file first to your hard drive then use the ASUS Update application to flash from a file. In the options you can also set it to downgrade your BIOS as well.

Another smart thing to do is check-out the BIOS first using your FTP client to ascertain that indeed you have the correct BIOS for your board. Sometimes the ASUS Update gives bad info and displays BIOS's for the K8V Deluxe SE for the K8V Deluxe (original) and visa versa so be careful !

As you SEE from this FTP logon there are several K8V types and for the uninformed if you flash the wrong BIOS you could kill your machine as well

Good Luck and please post back on what ASUS Tech support told you

Saphire

Jghim · 09-15-2004, 11:44 AM

Something I noticed with the manual versus the downloadable BIOS filename.

The BIOS filename is K8VSEDX.004

BUT the manual says to type afudos /i<SourceFilename.Destination Filename>

What is unclear is whether you need to type (1) afudos /ik8VSEDX.004 OR (2) afudos /ik8VSEDX.ROM

Which is correct?

Cheers

CanadianDude · 09-15-2004, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jghim

Something I noticed with the manual versus the downloadable BIOS filename.

The BIOS filename is K8VSEDX.004

BUT the manual says to type afudos /i<SourceFilename.Destination Filename>

What is unclear is whether you need to type (1) afudos /ik8VSEDX.004 OR (2) afudos /ik8VSEDX.ROM

Which is correct?

Cheers

Look in your manual again....especially at the pics of the BIOS. You will see that after the command prompt, it says A:\>afudos /iK8VSEDX.ROM

So there is your answer.

08-13-2004, 08:58 PM	#1
cbacba Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 6	k8v se deluxe failed to flash!! ! Its de second time I have this mobo, the first time i get corrupted so I had to flash and it didn't work. Now I have a new mobo and it didn't detect the hdd so I tried to flash (factory bios was 1001 beta) and I tried 1004 but it **ed up. This mobo is the worst I had. Ami bios, I never will buy any mobo with that bios. Award is much better then this **. If anyone has an idea how can i restore bios please help. The moby only says cpu test failed now.
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08-13-2004, 11:26 PM	#2
cmay119 Can I have your title? Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eden Prairie, MN Posts: 1,741	I would contact ASUS asap about this and demand that they replace it. This is BS. I don't think I have heard of one succesful flash on a K8V SE Deluxe thus far. I'm not for the life of me going to flash this board. Also, I would maybe say F this, and go with a nForce3 mobo. Goodluck man, I'm sorry this crap has kept happening to you. __________________ DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D \| AMD Opteron 170 CCBWE 0550 UPMW \| 2x1024 PC4000 Team Group Cronus I/A \| MSI NX7900GT \| 2x250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA RAID-0\| Lian Li PC65 \| PC Power & Cooling 750W Silencer \| Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 \| Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum \| KDS Xtreme Flat 19" CRT
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08-13-2004, 11:34 PM	#3
Tapir Wisdom Will Always Linger Join Date: May 2004 Location: Belize, The Jewel Posts: 3,191	What method did you use? Off the internet or with a floppy or from your hdd. Yes I have noted that this particular board is hassle when it comes to bios flashing. Personally I never recommend using internet to flash. Anyone ever tried to hot flash this type of bios? __________________ ************************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** Knowledge: Either you have it or know where to get it! ************************************************************************************************ **************************************************************************** You need to have the right question to obtain the right answer. ************************************************************************************************ **************************************************************************** The greatest right any nation can afford its people is the right to be left alone. ************************************************************************************************ **************************************************************************** BIOSTAR - P4M80-M4, P4-2.8E HT, MSI NX6200AX-TD256 DDR, 2X512 PC3200 MICRON DDR 400, HITACHI 80G & SAMSUNG 40G, LITEON 20XDVDR, MOTOROLA SB5100 CABLE MODEM, 56K V92 AGERE FAX MODEM, X TECH OPTICAL MOUSE, AIR COOLED - 5 FANS, JAUNTY JACKALOPE 9.04 ************************************************************************************************ ******************************************************************************
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08-14-2004, 06:54 AM	#4
Skrov Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 6	I´ve used the Asus update tool and had a couple of corrupted flashes with the K8V SEDX.Always got it to flash properly the second time. Just pull the battery if nothing else works.Can´t recomend their latest Bios 1004 though since it seems to degrade the performance a bit.Went from 21100 (Bios 1003) something to 20700 3Dmark 2001 after repeted tests.
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08-14-2004, 07:05 PM	#5
SaphireX SaphireX Join Date: May 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 178	K8V Deluxe SE bad BIOS Chips! Hi cbacba Sorry to hear that you are having so many problems with your board and what appears to be yet another customer who apparently has gotten a BAD BIOS chip on his board....In the ASUS Sub-Forum at the VIA Forums there are tooooo many folks who have flashed their "SE" BIOS only to have discovered that the machine would not post afterward. As I say at that Forum ..Contact ASUS Tech Support and speak to a supervisor if need be and let them know what happened and don't give up until you get ASUS to send you a new chip pre-flashed to the latest BIOS version for FREE! Let them know that you are aware of this widespread problem and that it is a serious customer issue similar to the bad capacitors that afouled a few of the original K8V Deluxe Boards..... A couple of the posters at the Via Forum reported back that they were sucessfull in getting ASUS to send them a replacement chip FREE of CHARGE! Others tried but apparently were not so convincing and either bought a new BIOS chip from ASUS or bought one from www.badflash.com As far as flashing your BIOS I highly recommend to d/l the BIOS file first to your hard drive then use the ASUS Update application to flash from a file. In the options you can also set it to downgrade your BIOS as well. Another smart thing to do is check-out the BIOS first using your FTP client to ascertain that indeed you have the correct BIOS for your board. Sometimes the ASUS Update gives bad info and displays BIOS's for the K8V Deluxe SE for the K8V Deluxe (original) and visa versa so be careful ! As you SEE from this FTP logon there are several K8V types and for the uninformed if you flash the wrong BIOS you could kill your machine as well Good Luck and please post back on what ASUS Tech support told you Saphire __________________ EVGA™ 132-CK-NF78-RevA2 AWARD™ BIOS P07 nForce™ 15.23 "chipset drivers" Intel™ Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Kentsfield" Asetek™ LCLC Liquid CPU Cooling Mushkin™ 996619 4 X 2GB=8GB PC2 8500 ASCENT™ w/ eVCI technology 2 X BFG Nvidia™ 8800(G92) GTS 512MB in SLi GeForce™ 180.60 "beta" PhysX 8.10.13 WHQL PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 860™ TAGAN CS-El Diablo™ Case Lite-On™LH-20A1S {SATA Port 6} Phillips™ SPD2413BD {IDE –Master} 2X 320GB Seagate Barracuda™ ST3320620AS RAID-0 "64kb stripe" SATA Ports 1 & 2 1X 750GB Seagate Barracuda™ ST3750330AS (storage) SATA Port 3 1X 750GB Seagate Barracuda™ ST3750330AS (storage) SATA Port 4 1X 750GB Seagate Barracuda™ ST3750330SV (storage) SATA Port 5 Rosewell™ RC-403 Conexant 56k Modem(Bottom PCI) Sony™ MPF920 Floppy Disk Drive APC™ BR1500LCD UPS 1500VA w/AVR SAMSUNG™ 2280HD 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Saitek Eclipse II™ Illuminated Keyboard Logitech MX400™ Laser Mouse Vista™ Ultimate 64 ~ MS Office 2007 ~ Nod32 64-bit RIG #2 ASUS™ K8V Deluxe 1rst Ed. AMI™-beta 1010.001 BIOS AMD Athlon™64 3200+ "Clawhammer" Stock AMD Cooling NANYA™ NT512D64S8HB1G-5T-(2X 512mb )PC3200 CR=1T(3-3-3-8-11) BFG Nvidia™ 6800GT 256 MB PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Deluxe™ Raidmax Scorpio 668™ Case Pri IDE-"jumpered" Master-Samsung™ TSST Corp SH-S182M Sec IDE-"jumpered" Master-Phillips SPD2413P 2X 120GB SATA 1rst Gen-Seagate Barracuda™ RAID-0 *64kb stripe" VIA VT8237™ V-RAID 5.10a Samsung™ SyncMaster 226BW 22" 2ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor Microsoft™ USB Wireless Desktop Elite™ WinXP Pro™ SP3+
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09-15-2004, 11:44 AM	#6
Jghim Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 26	Perhaps using wrong filename Something I noticed with the manual versus the downloadable BIOS filename. The BIOS filename is K8VSEDX.004 BUT the manual says to type afudos /i<SourceFilename.Destination Filename> What is unclear is whether you need to type (1) afudos /ik8VSEDX.004 OR (2) afudos /ik8VSEDX.ROM Which is correct? Cheers
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