- Nov 17, 2013
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Hi, I am having a pretty big problem with my PC right now. I have an older win XP system I built around 2008. My motherboard is an m3a32-mvp deluxe motherboard and an AMD athlon 64 5000+ processor. I had been wanting to upgrade my processor for a while, but found that socket am2 chips are way to rare to be affordable. So I checked on the asus site and they list a bunch of am3 chips that work with my motherboard, just with stripped down functionality. I got a nice quad core that is a good upgrade for me and tonight I flashed my bios to the most current one as it was necessary to flash to be able to run the new processor. I did not install the new chip, I haven't even opened it. The flash was successful, but when I go to boot the PC, it shows the windows loading splash screen and then nothing. Just black. I am able to boot into safe mode. What the heck did I do and is there any way to fix it? Searching the web for drivers has proven futile. Maybe I don't know what I am looking for? I can't determine where the problem is at this point. Can I roll back my bios version? Is it worth the risk? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Win XP 32 home
amd athlon 5000+ dual core 2.6
3.25 gigs ram
Radeon 7770
Win XP 32 home
amd athlon 5000+ dual core 2.6
3.25 gigs ram
Radeon 7770
Thanks for taking time to offer help Calvin7!
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