P5AD2 Premium fails to get to bios after change

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Ben wrote:
> My PC has been working for several months without problem, running a P4
> 3.4 GHz on a P5AD2 Premium. However, I had problems recognizing sound
> in Linux and the bootup/bios would always report the memory as PC 4300
> -- however, it's actually PC 5400. Today I went back to the bios and
> renabled the sound, setting it to HD Audio (from disabled), and
> manually changed the memory timings to 3 3 3 instead of 4 4 4 (the
> original manual setting). After saving and exiting, it gets to the
> point where it should give the bios info but dumps with an error
> message (I don't have it here with me) along the lines of a "corrupt
> bios", and it continually searches the A: drive and cdrom drive for
> P5AD2P.ROM. It seems impossible to get past that point because it
> believes the bios is corrupt.
>
> I'm wondering what steps I could take to restore the bios short of
> ordering a new/replacement bios chip? I don't find any P5AD2P.ROM on
> the asus website, just their standard *.AMI for bios upgrades.
>
> Thanks for your advice,
>
> -Ben
>

Did you try resetting the CMOS with the jumper? It may just be getting
screwed up because of the RAM timings.

If that doesn't work, it wants a CD with a BIOS image of that name. The
support CD that came with the board should work, if not you can likely
just take a downloaded BIOS image for the board and rename it to that..

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