So this is a continuation of a thread I posted last week,"Thermal problems due to CPU Die irregularities".
I read all of the responses and there was one commonality between all of them, Intel P4 Northwood CPU will not fry itself. Based on the premise that the CPU was not dead I began my marathon of trouble shooting. After many different solutions were tried I happened uppon this, 1) turn off the PSU, 2) Unplug the PSU, 3) unplug the VGA cable from the video card, 4) Remove the video card, 5) Wait, the capacitors on the MoBo and Video card need to have lost the majority of their charge, about 60 sec is good enough 6) Reseat the Video card, 7) With the monitor turnned off, plug in the VGA cord, 8) Plug the power cord into the PSU, 9) Turn on the PSU, 10) Wait, allow the MoBo and Video cards to regain their charges and for any ripple in the supply current to be filtered out, again 60 sec is long enough, 11) Hit the power button. This convoluted procedure works. The PC starts up and runs almost without a problem, the new problem is that it reports "Floppy Drive not detected". This is not that big of a problem, unless you want to say update your MoBo BIOS to hopefully eliminate the bugs. So here is the 64,000 $ question "How can I update my ASUS MoBo BIOS WITHOUT using a floppy drive?"
I read all of the responses and there was one commonality between all of them, Intel P4 Northwood CPU will not fry itself. Based on the premise that the CPU was not dead I began my marathon of trouble shooting. After many different solutions were tried I happened uppon this, 1) turn off the PSU, 2) Unplug the PSU, 3) unplug the VGA cable from the video card, 4) Remove the video card, 5) Wait, the capacitors on the MoBo and Video card need to have lost the majority of their charge, about 60 sec is good enough 6) Reseat the Video card, 7) With the monitor turnned off, plug in the VGA cord, 8) Plug the power cord into the PSU, 9) Turn on the PSU, 10) Wait, allow the MoBo and Video cards to regain their charges and for any ripple in the supply current to be filtered out, again 60 sec is long enough, 11) Hit the power button. This convoluted procedure works. The PC starts up and runs almost without a problem, the new problem is that it reports "Floppy Drive not detected". This is not that big of a problem, unless you want to say update your MoBo BIOS to hopefully eliminate the bugs. So here is the 64,000 $ question "How can I update my ASUS MoBo BIOS WITHOUT using a floppy drive?"
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