>"Bobby" <bo***@europe.com> wrote in message
>news:3arcr4F6batogU1@individual.net...
>> As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA hard
>> disk.
>>
>> So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I used
>> the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but now
>> my PC doesn't work at all.
>>
>> It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This
>> happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure.
>>
>> I solved my SATA problem by reverting to my old IDE drive and this
>> invariably gave me a stable machine - until I did this BIOS update. Now no
>> mater which drive I try to use (SATA or IDE) I get constant resets. I
>> tried removing all mention of RAID/SATA/Promise from Control Panel but the
>> problem persists.
>>
>> I can't even restore the BIOS to its old settings (I saved an image before
>> updating it) since the PC resets before I have time to do this.
>>
>> Now I have an unusable PC.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Bobby
> Ah so these are the motherboard details! When you say the flashing appeared
> to work perfectly, how do you know - did a message pop up saying so? The
> only Asus boards I've flashed have been using a Win98SE system formatted
> disk and a progress bar was shown. At the end I've always reset the BIOS by
> doing the shorting the jumper trick for a few minutes (have a read of the
> manual) - that's essential, have you done that?
>
> If the machines a new build, what are the PSU details (make/model and power
> rating)? FYI often OS's will need to be reinstalled after a BIOS flash -
> especially if it involved a disk controller, that's why its always best to
> do the job when the drive is still empty.
>
> Paul

"prankster" <pran***@monsters.inc> wrote in message
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> >"Bobby" <bo***@europe.com> wrote in message
>>news:3arcr4F6batogU1@individual.net...
>>> As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA
>>> hard
>>> disk.
>>>
>>> So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I
>>> used
>>> the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but
>>> now
>>> my PC doesn't work at all.
>>>
>>> It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This
>>> happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure.
>>>
>>> I solved my SATA problem by reverting to my old IDE drive and this
>>> invariably gave me a stable machine - until I did this BIOS update. Now
>>> no
>>> mater which drive I try to use (SATA or IDE) I get constant resets. I
>>> tried removing all mention of RAID/SATA/Promise from Control Panel but
>>> the
>>> problem persists.
>>>
>>> I can't even restore the BIOS to its old settings (I saved an image
>>> before
>>> updating it) since the PC resets before I have time to do this.
>>>
>>> Now I have an unusable PC.
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> Bobby
>> Ah so these are the motherboard details! When you say the flashing
>> appeared
>> to work perfectly, how do you know - did a message pop up saying so? The
>> only Asus boards I've flashed have been using a Win98SE system formatted
>> disk and a progress bar was shown. At the end I've always reset the BIOS
>> by
>> doing the shorting the jumper trick for a few minutes (have a read of the
>> manual) - that's essential, have you done that?
>>
>> If the machines a new build, what are the PSU details (make/model and
>> power
>> rating)? FYI often OS's will need to be reinstalled after a BIOS flash -
>> especially if it involved a disk controller, that's why its always best
>> to
>> do the job when the drive is still empty.
>>
>> Paul
>
> OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull
>
> bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ?
>
>
>
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"RBM" <rbm2(remove th***@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> If all else fails, contact these folks:
> http://www.badflash.com/flashprep.html
> "prankster" <pran***@monsters.inc> wrote in message
> news:d2c22s$pr9$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
>> >"Bobby" <bo***@europe.com> wrote in message
>>>news:3arcr4F6batogU1@individual.net...
>>>> As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA
>>>> hard
>>>> disk.
>>>>
>>>> So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I
>>>> used
>>>> the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but
>>>> now
>>>> my PC doesn't work at all.
>>>>
>>>> It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This
>>>> happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure.
>>>>
>>>> I solved my SATA problem by reverting to my old IDE drive and this
>>>> invariably gave me a stable machine - until I did this BIOS update. Now
>>>> no
>>>> mater which drive I try to use (SATA or IDE) I get constant resets. I
>>>> tried removing all mention of RAID/SATA/Promise from Control Panel but
>>>> the
>>>> problem persists.
>>>>
>>>> I can't even restore the BIOS to its old settings (I saved an image
>>>> before
>>>> updating it) since the PC resets before I have time to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Now I have an unusable PC.
>>>>
>>>> Help!
>>>>
>>>> Bobby
>>> Ah so these are the motherboard details! When you say the flashing
>>> appeared
>>> to work perfectly, how do you know - did a message pop up saying so? The
>>> only Asus boards I've flashed have been using a Win98SE system formatted
>>> disk and a progress bar was shown. At the end I've always reset the BIOS
>>> by
>>> doing the shorting the jumper trick for a few minutes (have a read of
>>> the
>>> manual) - that's essential, have you done that?
>>>
>>> If the machines a new build, what are the PSU details (make/model and
>>> power
>>> rating)? FYI often OS's will need to be reinstalled after a BIOS flash -
>>> especially if it involved a disk controller, that's why its always best
>>> to
>>> do the job when the drive is still empty.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull
>>
>> bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ?
>>
>>
>>
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>I had a similar problem and traced it to the disk settings in the bios hard
>disk set up area, the disks were being identified correctly but if you
>hilighted the disk and pressed enter to go to the addressing mode that had
>been reset to chs, resetting to lba or large solved the boot problem.

> >"Bobby" <bo***@europe.com> wrote in message
> >news:3arcr4F6batogU1@individual.net...
> >> As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA hard
> >> disk.
> >>
> >> So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I used
> >> the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but now
> >> my PC doesn't work at all.
> >>
> >> It resets either during boot or at login or shortly after boot. This
> >> happens constantly. Safe mode is the only cure.
> >>
> >> I solved my SATA problem by reverting to my old IDE drive and this
> >> invariably gave me a stable machine - until I did this BIOS update. Now no
> >> mater which drive I try to use (SATA or IDE) I get constant resets. I
> >> tried removing all mention of RAID/SATA/Promise from Control Panel but the
> >> problem persists.
> >>
> >> I can't even restore the BIOS to its old settings (I saved an image before
> >> updating it) since the PC resets before I have time to do this.
> >>
> >> Now I have an unusable PC.
> >>
> >> Help!
> >>
> >> Bobby
> > Ah so these are the motherboard details! When you say the flashing appeared
> > to work perfectly, how do you know - did a message pop up saying so? The
> > only Asus boards I've flashed have been using a Win98SE system formatted
> > disk and a progress bar was shown. At the end I've always reset the BIOS by
> > doing the shorting the jumper trick for a few minutes (have a read of the
> > manual) - that's essential, have you done that?
> >
> > If the machines a new build, what are the PSU details (make/model and power
> > rating)? FYI often OS's will need to be reinstalled after a BIOS flash -
> > especially if it involved a disk controller, that's why its always best to
> > do the job when the drive is still empty.
> >
> > Paul
>
> OS needs te be reinstalled after a BIOS update ? that's bull
>
> bobby have you tried to set de bios defaults in your BIOS ?
>
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