bellland Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 Hello all, Today I was trying to flash my BIOS to fix a probelm with my PC crashing to desktop during some games (ex., Civ4, Rome Total War). I disconnected the power, cleared the CMOS, plugged the power back in, and inserted my floppy with the BIOS from 6/23/2005. AwardBIOS utility opened up fine and it seemed to flash the BIOS, but my USB keyboard would not respond inside the utility, so I couldn't type F1 to proceed. I turned the power off and my computer posted fine and entered windows, but I tried restarting and I received a series of long post beeps, indicating a failure to detect DRAM. I have tried several things, including changing the jumpers for USB power to 5VSB, unplugging the USB mouse, using a USB-to-PS/2 connector for the mouse, and manual BIOS configuration. I even tried using the mouse connector for my keyboard. None of this made the keyboard work within FLASH utility. Any ideas on what to try next? Tonight I plan to try another BIOS. Peace Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil-Fruits|R4z Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 Did you enable USB Keboard Support in the BIOS? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellland Posted August 12, 2006 Posted August 12, 2006 Yes, I enabled the USB keyboard and mouse support. ... wait ... I think I loaded the BIOS from 3/29/2006 with the help of nTune, except nTune says the 9/20/2004 BIOS is on there ... So I restarted and it posted fine a couple times in a row. Still not sure how to make sure which BIOS are actually loaded. Do I need a boot disk for that? Peace Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praz Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 Use CPU-Z and click on the mainboard tab. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil-Fruits|R4z Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 The BIOS date will be displayed when the system posts. Also the reason I ask is that you said you cleared the CMOS b4 the flash, well USB support is disabled as default so, unless you cleared CMOS, booted and changed USB support to enabled, saved and exited then tried to flash then it wont be on...just want to clarify that this is what you did Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellland Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 I feel like I enabled the USB supprot during at least one of the attempts, but I could try again. I did find a reference for current BIOS being "NVidia - 42303e31 -) Phoenix AwardWorkstationBIOS v6.00PG" in AMD CPUInfo utility. This mean anything. Also, I found the date on the BIOS (3/29/2006) in the System Information. I guess everything worked. Now I can jut see if these games still crah to desktop. Peace. Dave. Oh, and thanks for the help. I will post on the game statuses tomorrow some time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil-Fruits|R4z Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 Yeah flash looks good and its always nice to check but, as flash has appeared to work it dont really matter i suppose Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellland Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 Wierdly enough, the crashes to desktop from Rome Total War persit. The support staff at Sega already ran me through all the updates possible and no luck. They had suggested new BIOS. However, the support person stated that they have been having problems with wierd dual-core processor crashes lately. Maybe Vista will fix this next decade (or whenevr they actually release). Maybe I should head over the AMD's forums and present the problem there. Or maybe I should try a different power supply, though the work involved there would be almost as much as rebuilding the system with a new board or processor. Peace. Dave P.S.: great response from my first posted question. I am going to have to utilize the knowledge base here when I get the time to play around with overclocking my system. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvintang Posted August 13, 2006 Posted August 13, 2006 try tmod cd when your flashing the next time..i assume you have a cd drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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