BIOS Fried?

[Guest]

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Hi,
I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe.
I updated the BIOS to rev. 16 Saturday. Everything look OK except the voice
post reporter said some unintelligible thing on start up even thou it was
disabled in BIOS.

Then I lost my DSL connection. 2 days of tiring everything I know, the
shorting plug, pulling the CMOS battery, restart at default settings,
re-flashing with original BIOS from the CD.
I even disabled the CNR thinking it went bad. Installed a t10/100 without
any difference.

After calling Verizon tech support, we found that the DSL connection works,
sort of.
I can ping an IP and get a response, but it won't resolve a URL. tracert
won't resolve a URL or a route via IP.
WinXP services seem to be OK.

After 3 days the voice reporter still yaps, the 1394 fire wire connection
shows up installed in Windows. Both are disabled in BIOS. BIOS obliviously
is not saving all the changes when I select that option on exit. DSL still
won't resolve URL's Yet I can get to this machine thru my network/router.

And no, the DSL won't work direct to the DSL modem.

Sound familiar to anyone?
TIA

John
johnf202 at hotmail dot com

 

[Paul]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

In article <qRcSc.6619$AA1.2024@trndny06>, "jaf" <me@here.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe.
> I updated the BIOS to rev. 16 Saturday. Everything look OK except the voice
> post reporter said some unintelligible thing on start up even thou it was
> disabled in BIOS.
>
> Then I lost my DSL connection. 2 days of tiring everything I know, the
> shorting plug, pulling the CMOS battery, restart at default settings,
> re-flashing with original BIOS from the CD.
> I even disabled the CNR thinking it went bad. Installed a t10/100 without
> any difference.
>
> After calling Verizon tech support, we found that the DSL connection works,
> sort of.
> I can ping an IP and get a response, but it won't resolve a URL. tracert
> won't resolve a URL or a route via IP.
> WinXP services seem to be OK.
>
> After 3 days the voice reporter still yaps, the 1394 fire wire connection
> shows up installed in Windows. Both are disabled in BIOS. BIOS obliviously
> is not saving all the changes when I select that option on exit. DSL still
> won't resolve URL's Yet I can get to this machine thru my network/router.
>
> And no, the DSL won't work direct to the DSL modem.
>
> Sound familiar to anyone?
> TIA
>
> John
> johnf202 at hotmail dot com

You could disable the 1394 in the Device Manager.

Then, set up your LAN connection to the DSL again.

It sounds like maybe the appearance of the 1394 "grabbed"
the network connection from your regular LAN path.

Have you disabled full screen logo, so you can observe the
progress of the system while booting ? Perhaps there are
some messages on the screen indicating a problem. The
disabling of ports should be stored in the CMOS RAM, and
clearing the CMOS and/or doing a "Load Setup Defaults"
should straighten that out, after a BIOS flash.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Guest]

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I don't see how this is related to BIOS, save
the coincidence. Sounds like a DNS or
Verizon issue to me.

Tried restarting the DSL Modem?
Tried running IPCONFIG /flushdns?
Tried reinstalling the TCP/IP protocols?
Checked HOSTS file?


RayO



"jaf" <me@here.com> wrote in message news:qRcSc.6619$AA1.2024@trndny06...
> Hi,
> I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe.
> I updated the BIOS to rev. 16 Saturday. Everything look OK except the voice
> post reporter said some unintelligible thing on start up even thou it was
> disabled in BIOS.
>
> Then I lost my DSL connection. 2 days of tiring everything I know, the
> shorting plug, pulling the CMOS battery, restart at default settings,
> re-flashing with original BIOS from the CD.
> I even disabled the CNR thinking it went bad. Installed a t10/100 without
> any difference.
>
> After calling Verizon tech support, we found that the DSL connection works,
> sort of.
> I can ping an IP and get a response, but it won't resolve a URL. tracert
> won't resolve a URL or a route via IP.
> WinXP services seem to be OK.
>
> After 3 days the voice reporter still yaps, the 1394 fire wire connection
> shows up installed in Windows. Both are disabled in BIOS. BIOS obliviously
> is not saving all the changes when I select that option on exit. DSL still
> won't resolve URL's Yet I can get to this machine thru my network/router.
>
> And no, the DSL won't work direct to the DSL modem.
>
> Sound familiar to anyone?
> TIA
>
> John
> johnf202 at hotmail dot com
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Hi Ray,
Done each. Several times.

John


"RayO" <nothere@nope.net> wrote in message
news:BehSc.26795$114.25422@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> I don't see how this is related to BIOS, save
> the coincidence. Sounds like a DNS or
> Verizon issue to me.
>
> Tried restarting the DSL Modem?
> Tried running IPCONFIG /flushdns?
> Tried reinstalling the TCP/IP protocols?
> Checked HOSTS file?
>
>
> RayO
>
>
>
> "jaf" <me@here.com> wrote in message news:qRcSc.6619$AA1.2024@trndny06...
> > Hi,
> > I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe.
> > I updated the BIOS to rev. 16 Saturday. Everything look OK except the
voice
> > post reporter said some unintelligible thing on start up even thou it
was
> > disabled in BIOS.
> >
> > Then I lost my DSL connection. 2 days of tiring everything I know, the
> > shorting plug, pulling the CMOS battery, restart at default settings,
> > re-flashing with original BIOS from the CD.
> > I even disabled the CNR thinking it went bad. Installed a t10/100
without
> > any difference.
> >
> > After calling Verizon tech support, we found that the DSL connection
works,
> > sort of.
> > I can ping an IP and get a response, but it won't resolve a URL. tracert
> > won't resolve a URL or a route via IP.
> > WinXP services seem to be OK.
> >
> > After 3 days the voice reporter still yaps, the 1394 fire wire
connection
> > shows up installed in Windows. Both are disabled in BIOS. BIOS
obliviously
> > is not saving all the changes when I select that option on exit. DSL
still
> > won't resolve URL's Yet I can get to this machine thru my
network/router.
> >
> > And no, the DSL won't work direct to the DSL modem.
> >
> > Sound familiar to anyone?
> > TIA
> >
> > John
> > johnf202 at hotmail dot com
> >
> >
> >
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

> You could disable the 1394 in the Device Manager.


I have done that. It should not even show up in device mgr. when it is
disabled in BIOS.
That's one of the reasons I know something is wrong.


> Then, set up your LAN connection to the DSL again.
>
> It sounds like maybe the appearance of the 1394 "grabbed"
> the network connection from your regular LAN path.
>
> Have you disabled full screen logo, so you can observe the
> progress of the system while booting ? Perhaps there are
> some messages on the screen indicating a problem. The

Tried that too. I don't see anything like an error msg. or problem.
To bad I can't dump it to a file so I can read it easier. (One problem with
todays computers. The text goes by real fast.)
I might try the windows debug startup. It does create a file that may have
something usefull.

> disabling of ports should be stored in the CMOS RAM, and
> clearing the CMOS and/or doing a "Load Setup Defaults"
> should straighten that out, after a BIOS flash.

Been there, done that, at least a dozen times.

Thanks.
I ordered a new MB. I will see if I can get this one fixed after the new one
is up & running.
I'm sure I will find a good use for a fourth machine!!
Maybe I will rebuild this one. (win2k, Intel MB)

John

 

[Paul]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

In article <JJvSc.4909$BS3.2394@trndny04>, "jaf" <me@here.com> wrote:

<<snip>>

> Tried that too. I don't see anything like an error msg. or problem.
> To bad I can't dump it to a file so I can read it easier. (One problem with
> todays computers. The text goes by real fast.)

On mine, I tried the Pause/Break key, and that seemed to stop it
so I could read the text. But that doesn't give perfect control,
in terms of starting and stopping at will.

> I might try the windows debug startup. It does create a file that may have
> something usefull.
>
> > disabling of ports should be stored in the CMOS RAM, and
> > clearing the CMOS and/or doing a "Load Setup Defaults"
> > should straighten that out, after a BIOS flash.
>
> Been there, done that, at least a dozen times.
>
> Thanks.
> I ordered a new MB. I will see if I can get this one fixed after the new one
> is up & running.
> I'm sure I will find a good use for a fourth machine!!
> Maybe I will rebuild this one. (win2k, Intel MB)
>
> John

The only other thing I can think of, is the BIOS is the wrong
one for the machine. I don't know exactly how chip disabling
works with the BIOS, as you never see outboard gate logic on
a motherboard, and not every chip has a disable/tristate
or similar pin, that can be used for the function. To disable
a chip, means to have the chip fail to return a response to a
chip select, so anything that can achieve that end will work
(like turning off the power to the chip with a MOSFET). If the
GPIO pins used for a function like that, change from motherboard
to motherboard, then the wrong BIOS would toggle the wrong pins.

Paul