Premature BIOS update

IpperDragon · Dec 7, 2016

OK. I'm feeling very sheepish here. I don't have a big budget so I am attempting to improve an older M2NPV-VM ASUS motherboard. I successfully installed a refurbished GPU, and 8 gigs of ram, which the Mobo recognized. I ordered a refurbished Phenom 9600 X4 CPU, which is listed as compatible with my motherboard. Now I stupidly went and flashed my BIOS to the version required for the new CPU. The computer will not currently function with the existing AMD 64 X2 CPU.

Can someone please give me some good news like after I install the newer processor. My old Betsy will work again? BAAA as aaaa.

CountMike · Dec 8, 2016

That's how you are supposed to do, flash BIOS with old CPU in. I'm afraid that flashing didn't go thru otherwise it would work with old processor. Did you reset CMOS ?

IpperDragon · Dec 8, 2016

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IpperDragon · Dec 8, 2016

Yes I did. I followed my manual instructions. I removed the CMOS battery, moved the jumper and pressed and held the power button. No boot up or anything showing up on the monitor. I also held down the Del key while booting up, but I think the BIOS is not detecting the keyboard as no keyboard lights flash. Egads!!!

CountMike · Dec 8, 2016

Just wait til you get new CPU but I don't think it would work either.

IpperDragon · Dec 8, 2016

I will let you know if it works.

IpperDragon · Jan 3, 2017

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judoair · Feb 10, 2018

I’m in the same situation I want to upgrade mine. So did you try to update the bios to 5005? What bios did you have before that I have 1004. It’s been a while but that board has easy flash and a way for you to save the previous bios on a USB drive. Did you back up your old bios? You should be able to reflash the bios to an earlier version if you go to the Asus website for that motherboard you’ll notice different revisions of the bios that you can download simply download the bios that’s gonna work for your Older chip and use the easy flash function to reflash the bios to the version that you had. The other quirk are used to get with this board was having four sticks of memory in it. This will sound crazy but try removing all of the sticks of memory except for one. Everyone snow while over the years I will get a black screen on boot up I simply turn the system off take out three sticks around reboot then put the ram back in and it’s fine.

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