Hey.
I recently tried to update my bios on my Asus p5b mobo to version 2001 using Afudos BIOS update tool. I know it might not have been a good idea, and apparently it wasnt, as the proces where it installs the new bios failed, but the proces right before that where it formats the chip did not fail. I was unable to install anything afterwards. The program simply would not recognize the bios.
So I rebooted, but the screen stayed black and the pc speaker did not "beep". I started searching for a solution and found out that my mobo has the asus crash free bios feature. The guide on how to use this feature was very limited in my manual, but i found this (forum wont let me post the link in proper style so remove the space):
www .motherboardpoint.com/t61048-m2n32sli-deluxe-wireless-and-bios-update-problems.html
In the end of that topic there is a complete guide on how to use crash free bios. I tried to follow this guide, but I dont have a pci gfx (will get one tomorrow), which makes it hard (impossible?) to do.
I will post more when/if I get a working pci card.
Some of you might think that I should have waited with this post until I had the pci card, but the main reason I posted this is that I would like to know if any of you think that I will actually get this working. Can I use the asus crash free bios util. without any sign of life (other than spinning cooler units) from my comp? I have read people saying that it works without "power on self test", and people saying that a thing like this wont work at all, since a CPU is blind and deaf without a bios on the mobo.
If anyone has a good anwer to this I will be very thankfull